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TABLO (2009 - )
Nationality: New Zelanderemail: n/a Website: n/a
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Tablo's two Creative Directors and Performers, Simon van der Sluijs and John Cohen-Du Four, originally hail from The Netherlands and the United States. The Christchurch-based Company has been busy since its formation in 2009, producing three different stage shows, a number of short films, workshops and Canterbury University lectures - as well as performing puppetry street theatre in NZ, including the 2011 Dunedin Fringe, and abroad at the Adelaide Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol International Puppetry Festival, and Street Theatre Festival in Aurillac, France.
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In Absentia It'll End In TearsIn Absentia
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this new work is a mesmerising study of the impact of Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, the reality of the illness is highlighted and brought into unique focus through the unreal world of Tablo's exquisitely crafted puppetry. Time becomes fluid and memories shape-shift as a son and his mother traverse the broken, bewildering, and ultimately revelatory, landscape of her illness. In Absentia is at once both intimate and universal, tragic and surreally humorous, swinging from moments of heart rending tenderness to scenes of cleverly outrageous stagecraft. This is not children's puppetry but dramatic, subtly nuanced performance along the lines of contemporary European and North American puppet theatre. - http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=3128
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Christchurch 2012
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