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Manual Cinema created a bespoke live visual performance to accompany the 2024 Iron and Wine Light Verse tour. Puppeteers will perform live overhead projector shadow puppetry devised and designed by Manual Cinema artists to accompany the band on stage. Check out the tour dates and purchase tickets here.
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Love, loss, and creation merge in unexpected ways as Manual Cinema presents its thrilling version of the classic Gothic tale Frankenstein. The Chicago-based performance collective imaginatively combines shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, sound effects, and live music in haunting shows like nothing else you’ve ever seen. more info
Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch is a feature-length work inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, depicting the story of a young girl, orphaned from war, who becomes apprenticed to the three witches. Told through shadow puppetry, actors in silhouette and live music (without dialogue or narration), The 4th Witch begins on the eve of an invasion of a small town by the local warlord, Macbeth. The girl flees the invading army and escapes into the nearby forest. There, she is rescued by the witches. They agree to take the girl on as an apprentice, on the condition that she must never use her powers for revenge. Consumed by grief and rage, the girl comes to realize that it was Macbeth who killed her father – and that she must choose between reconciliation or vengeance. more info