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	<title>Fringe &#38; Purge &#187; puppetry</title>
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		<title>Not Even a Hip Shot: &#8216;The Dream-Casting&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trey Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. So this is still going on, and I&#8217;d just like to say: I want some of what he&#8217;s smoking.
That is all.

 UPDATE, 11:45 p.m. &#8211; So just to revisit: I&#8217;m not going to write a full review, because I&#8217;m not sure quite where to start.  
This was one of the most out-there things I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow. So this is still going on, and I&#8217;d just like to say: I want some of what he&#8217;s smoking.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
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<em> UPDATE, 11:45 p.m. &#8211;</em> So just to revisit: I&#8217;m not going to write a full review, because I&#8217;m not sure quite where to start.  </p>
<p>This was one of the most out-there things I&#8217;ve seen yet at Fringe; can&#8217;t say it was good, not sure I want to say it was bad, exactly. (It had the distinct whiff of the Radical Faerie about it, and everybody needs a little Faerie dust once in a while.) So let&#8217;s leave it at mad &#8212; and perhaps spectacularly ill-advised, in a town as buttoned-up as this one. </p>
<p>Of the 18 audience members who came, 12 of us survived until the end. Which was convenient, because it meant no one was left out when lead performer Huilo Marvavilla produced a dozen yellow roses and went about bestowing them upon the patrons.</p>
<p>The projections were intriguingly psychedelic, the soundscape much the same; the puppets, whether smallish or enormous, were wonderfully well-crafted.</p>
<p>But the puppetry itself was amateurish and unfocused, the dancing likewise, and the whole thing thoroughly incoherent. Act 2, an improvised and largely undecipherable puppet conversation titled &#8220;Tea With Duality,&#8221; was possibly the single most uncomfortable thing I&#8217;ve ever seen on a stage.</p>
<p>Finally, if I were called upon to offer one technical suggestion, it would be this: If you know that, during the course of your trippy hourlong multimedia paean to peace, you will be donning a giant papier-mache puppet-head and dancing about the darkened performance space, you might think twice about building a spider-web of purple yarn throughout said space <em>before</em> the puppet-head dance.</p>
<p>That way, there will be less stumbling.</p>
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