Summer Series ‘The City That Slept’

Sandglass Theater opens its New Visions Summer Series with The City That Slept, an imaginative puppetry performance by Tom Tuke, on June 5 and 6 at 7pm.

The production blends shadow puppetry, lantern puppets, and large-scale marionettes with sound recordings collected in New York City’s Union Square. As the city falls asleep, the dreams of its residents appear onstage through a series of dreamlike visual tableaux.

The performance also features an original technique developed by Tuke: floating shadow puppets that glide across a pool of moving water, creating luminous images of motion and reflection.

Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tuke studied at the University of Connecticut’s Puppet Arts Program and has performed with Bread and Puppet Theater.

A hands-on Floating Water Puppets workshop will take place June 6 from 11am–12:30pm, where participants will create their own floating shadow puppets and experiment with the water-shadow technique used in the show.

Tickets are $20 for the show and $40 for the workshop