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- Artist: Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls by Great Small Works
- Date: 01/26/17
- Time: 7:00pm
- Venue: Dance Center of Columbia College
- City: Chicago , IL
- Address: 1306 S. Michigan Ave
- Country: US
- Age restrictions: All Ages
- Notes: Great Small Works revisits the work of radical 20th Century NYC puppeteers Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler in a bilingual Yiddish-English play that uses Maud and Cutler’s satirical puppet scripts and original graphics, together with Great Small Works’ own puppets and projections, and appearances by demented dybbuks and Mae West, Muntergang is a meditation on historical models for changing power relationships. Created in collaboration with the archive of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research by Great Small Works members John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplan, Jenny Romaine and Roberto Rossi. With puppeteers Joseph Therrien and Sam Wilson. Music by Jessica Lurie and Hannah Temple Lights by Meredith Holch; Script by Jenny Romaine Presented by the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at the college, together with the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.