OK, this is old news. But you’ve gotta see the pictures anyway!
On July 24 and 25, 2008, an ensemble cast performed The Lady Liberty Blues, written in the main by Wes Andrews and directed by Jess Smith, at Live Girls! Theater in Ballard, a Seattle neighborhood.
I was in charge of all the shadow imagery. This was my first time creating puppets for a show, and my first time performing with them. These will give you an idea of what we accomplished:
The Little Boy Who Lived in a Jar
The Chair of Motivation
Little Cartoon Baby Bob Dylan
The Rat Cage
Secret Orcon
OHP!
If you want more information on the show, Wes created a blog, which lives nearby.
The kid with the gray and red plaid shirt…that’s me. I literally had that shirt. I watched so much television as a kid that it’s kind of surreal I’m even able to type without electrical prompting. The question of how/if I’ve been scarred irrevocably by all of those hours in front of the box is the sort of thing that keeps a body up at night.
This video is compliments of my friend Jess Smith at Seattle Repertory Theatre. You can find out about them here, since I can’t link you to her non-existent website.
