Happenstance Theater Company, with Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell
Friday, June 18 & Saturday, June 19 at 8pm, Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 2pm

Photo of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell courtesy of Happenstance Theater

Round House favorites Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell return in an original production loosely based on the TS Eliot poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the shadow boxes of artist Joseph Cornell. Two characters animate the stage collage: a woman from the sea and a man who hesitates. Their poetic world balances between whimsy and angst over tea. It is reflected in a life-sized shadow box which becomes a portal, a carapace, a work of art where puppet images dance in a contrapuntal metaphor. The women of Prufrock’s world come and go, talking of Michelangelo. Do you dare to eat a peach?
Recommended for ages 12+