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Mr. M
Author(s): Vit Horejs
The production emphasizes object theater over puppetry. Mr. M’s furniture moves around him, the room morphs into a concentration camp in his dreams, and reality turns inside out as he visits his friends in “reality,” and they visit him in his “imagination.” There is one directly manipulated puppet, Mr. M’s shadow or alter ego.
Format: 70-minute marionette
Cast Size:3F/3M
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
2011, Theater for the New City, NYC
2011, Theater for the New City, NYC
Original Source Material: Adapted from the novel Mr. Theodore Mundstock by Ladislav Fuks.
Nationality of Author: Czechoslovakian
Original Language: Czech
Production Rights Holder:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | The Ghettos
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