About Puppet Uprising's Spring Thing:

Beth Nixon and Morgan Andrews emceed in the spirit of Francophonics: Cabaret! Cabernet! Chardonet! Negligee! Valet Ballet! Hell Toupee! Master puppeteer Rebecca Tennison (pictured here) came all the way from Bellingham Washton with her handpuppet tale "Spell Launcher" in which a witch matches wits with the devil himself against a psychedelic sea of sound. A mish-mosh of Philadelphian and New-Yorkese celebrants affiliated with Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (featuring members of Great Small Works and other performance outfits) presented selections from their "Purim Spiel" in honor of the holiday which turns the world upside-down. Tim Harbeson showed us that it is possible to play the accordion and operate marionettes at the same time in his ever-growing object theater episodic epic "Fence Kitchen."

Local composter Aaron Birk unleased his new company Black Willow Productions with the help of a trunk, a fish, a beard and a barnicle-laden coat in "Dance of the Ripidistian." Kelly Nesbitt (who also goes by Barabara Cox and, like, twelve other names) brought two short pieces from Portlans (Maine, that is): "The Phantom Flower Arranger" and "WWF Juggling." Matt Rock and Kate Cox, also from Portland (Germany?) proved how inseparable they really are in their Spandex™ dance bit performed under the moniker "Die Leipsiger Zwei." See a video of their performance on the left.

The Spring Thing was bolstered by the many facets of Providence-based filmmaker / silkscreener / cartoonist / musician Jo Dery as exemplified in her puppet video "1,000 Years of Popcorn," her papercut animation "Echoes of Bats and Men," and her punk rock project Teenage Waistband.

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