Each clan has a "teller" - someone who interprets the meaning of the performances. Traveling puppet shows present versions of traditional stories. Isolated clans live in part by scavaging metal from the wreck of earlier civilizations. "And after the first five pages or so, you'll have no trouble at all." Hopkins warned us that Hoban writes the tale in an imagined future jargon that initially may appear obscure. Civilization has reverted to a medieval existence of clans, poverty and myth making. The 1980 novel by Russell Hoban (published, curiously enough, by the Indiana University Press) is set in a distant future. Hopkins himself served as a relaxed interlocutor. The evening began with The Red Tree, one of several pieces developed in Caroline Reck's "Object Theatre Workshop" and moved to several scenes the company has roughed out for the production of Riddley Walker scheduled for September - October of this year. Profile and Video: Trouble Puppet's RIDDLEY WALKER, a Work in ProgressĬonnor Hopkins and the gang at Trouble Puppet Theatre Company invited their e-list followers over to the Salvage Vanguard Theatre studio on two Saturday nights, January 8 and 15, to get a look at their works in progress.
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