Fantastic mr. fox
september 24 - november 27, 2011 (extended through January 15, 2012)
all floors @ artspace
Photo taken by Robert Trudeau
Based on the award-winning children’s book by Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a puppet theatre adaptation about a sly Fox who outfoxes three farmers to save his family and friends. Travel down the foxhole into an imaginary world through underground tunnels and join Mr. Fox in this interactive puppet theatre experience!
Audiences climb, crawl, and slide their way through the story, led by a narrator who guides them through a maze of tunnels and underground sets made entirely from recycled cardboard! The masterfully expressive Mr. Fox proves that, indeed, every wall is a tunnel, and there is no problem that can't be fixed with a little bravery and a lot of humble improvisation.
This story of a family and its inevitable growing pains is told entirely with puppets in a symphony of choreographed movements controlled by five puppeteers and one tech artist.
The puppets "lip-sync" to a pre-recorded vocal track featuring Deb and Johnny Vidacovich, Cullen Landry, Oskie Creech, and Bryan Spitzfaden which accompanies the action, complete with sound effects and a dramatic original score.
This family-friendly masterpiece was conceived and directed by a true champion in his field, Arthur MIntz, and together with the brothers Duffourc, took on the enormous task of building the gargantuan labrynth of cardboard that envelopes over three floors of a building. Employing the talents and hard work of a small but dedicated group of volunteers, HI-YAH! rebuilt the entire set in Shreveport in five months!
