PREMIERE

May 31, 2000
Arts at St. Ann’s

2018 Tour

Wuzhen Theatre Festival, October 2018 (see below)

 

Take one environmentally-sensitive chimpanzee, add a rhinoceros with shady business dealings, stir in a generous dollop of live music, plenty of animation and you have the recipe for Animal Magnetism, a raucous love story.

Cheri (the chimp) and Tin Tin’s passion plays out on the ground – often amidst giant cartoon projections of themselves -as well as in the air. They soar and swoop and swoon in awe-inspiring aerial pas de deux. More than a love story, Animal Magnetism is also an allegory. It points out our species’ insatiable appetite for destroying natural resources and the glaring disparities between the first and third worlds. This socio-political- erotic live-action cartoon is one you won’t see on Disney anytime soon!

ANIMAL MAGNETISM – 2018 TOUR

MABOU MINES ON TOUR AT THE WUZHEN THEATRE FESTIVAL

DIRECTORS: Terry O’Reilly and Lee Breuer
CO-DIRECTOR / COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE: Dodd Loomis
SCRIPTWRITER: Terry O’Reilly
MUSIC: Eve Beglarian
VOICE OF CHERI: Clove Galilee
VOICE OF TIN TIN: Sean Runnette
PUPPETRY DESIGNER/DIRECTOR: Jessica Scott
PUPPETRY DIRECTOR: Enrico D. Wey

Redirected for the 2018 Wuzhen Theatre Festival by veteran Mabou Mines CO-Artistic Director Terry O’Reilly and Founding Co-Artistic Director Lee Breuer, this incarnation draws upon the cutting-edge puppetry of New York’s Jessica Scott to vamp and revamp their original collaboration.

Playing jazz with pop icons, movie plots and a wild assortment of musical forms from Bossa Nova to Rap, R&B and Rock, they weave together original songs and Eve Beglarian’s sweeping sound score in a story of two larger than life characters improbably attracted to one another dealing with forces far beyond their control.