Transforming props and puppetry on the Pig Iron stage
2,691 views · Published 14 October 2011 · 2:13 · Indexed 1 November 2026
Channel: WHYY · 2011 · News & Politics
Theater (aka artistically sanctioned make-believe) is suspended between flights of imagination and physical reality. Quinn Bauriedel, co-founder of the Pig Iron Theater company, shows how theater props may not be what they appear. Pig Iron has tried to re-animate the dead, flatten into a 2-dimensional world, and crawl into the brain of Anton Chekhov; the trick is to make these things happen on a stage. For this story and more go to: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/28323-total-theatre-with-pig-irons-gabriel-quinn-bauridel
