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NEW STAGE COLLECTIVE
Thursday, May 28 at 9:30 PM
Saturday, May 30 at 6:00 PM
Sunday, May 31 at 3:15 PM
Tuesday, June 2 at 7:15 PM
Saturday, June 6 at 5:30 PM
Running time: 55 min.
Four Wishes
Gunstwork Puppet Mask Theatre
From Boulder, CO.
PREVIOUS FRINGES
Boulder International Fringe Festival (2007)
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Winner of the "Encore Best of Fest ‘07” award, Boulder International Fringe Festival. Four Wishes has exquisite puppets, expressive masks and original choreography. It will ignite imaginations. This dynamic solo production of a classic tale teaches life lessons about the universal theme of human desire: What determines our choices? From where do we make decisions?
Four Wishes, adapted from Gluskabe and the Four Wishes by Joseph Bruchac, is a teaching story. It depicts the journey of four native New England Abenaki men as they make their way to the island home of the great Gluskabe, folk hero and protector of the Abenaki who bestows one wish on each of the four men. One man wishes for worldly possessions, one yearns to be taller than all, another seeks immortality, and the fourth wishes to be a better hunter so that he may provide food for his people. A MUST SEE, MUST!
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Gunstwork created Four Wishes, an adaptation of Gluskabe and the Four Wishes by Joseph Bruchac, for the 2007 Boulder International Fringe Festival and received the "Encore Best of Fest." performance.
Michael Gunst is from Boulder, CO where he is a local actor, director and mask maker. He is the artistic director of Gunstwork Puppet Mask Theatre, where he nationally tours his production of Four Wishes a show for families and young audiences. He has performed locally in CO at the Germinal Stage, Nomad Theater, with Theatre 13 and DragonFly Productions, the Denver Civic Theater and Colorado Shakespeare Festival's "Living Shakespeare".
Since 1977 Michael has toured, taught, and performed both internationally and nationally across North America, Scotland, England, Switzerland, Germany, and in the Czech Republic.
'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
The show was adapted and created by a single person. All of the props, puppets, masks, and set designs are original. It is dynamic. There are ten one of a kind masks, five uniquely wonderful puppets, great characters, and a really cool loose-lipped Bunraku puppet narrator. Imagine. . .