Italo Calvino's
INVISIBLE CITIES
A Toy Theater Atlas
created and performed by Matthew Gawryk & Dan Kerr-Hobert
more shows coming soon...
"An exquisite and beautiful show that audiences loved seeing, many for a second time."
-Blair Thomas, Artistic Director, The Chicago International Puppet Festival
"a tour de force of ingenuity... Visually witty and masterfully delivered in a suitcase of marvels."
-Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University
"In Invisible Cities, the intricacy of the objects tells the story."
- Irene Hsiao, Chicago Reader
"An incredible distillation of the novel."
- Dylan Zavagno, Deerfield Librarian
About the show
Invisible Cities is a conversation between Kublai Khan and his emissary Marco Polo. Even as the Khan feels his empire eroding beneath him, Marco Polo forms the slipping sands into the cities of the emperor's dreams.
This toy theater adaptation of Italo Calvino's novel compresses 19 cities into a menagerie of intricately crafted boxes
that articulate the narrative, using a variety of mediums including puppetry, object theater, paper mechanics and living sculpture.
