L/A Arts inaugural Imagination Series performance of the Cashore Marionette’s Simple Gifts is this Sunday October 28 . We are so excited to have broadened our reach within our community, providing you with family oriented matinee performances throughout the year. The Cashore Marionette’s is a delightful portrayal in puppetry of the beauty of everyday life. Simple Gifts will begin at 3PM in the Olin Arts Center, Bates College 75 Russell St, Lewiston. Tickets for this performance are only $10 for adults and $8 for children 14 and under.
The internationally acclaimed Cashore Marionettes redefine the art of puppetry. The moving and humorous performances have astounded audiences in Europe, the Far East and across North America including stops at the Kennedy Center, Annenberg Center, Kravis Center, and many others.
Simple Gifts is a series of touching portrayals and poignant scenes from everyday life set to stunning music by such composers as Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven and Copland. Through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, beautiful music, theatrical illusion, and artistic insight, the original vignettes presented in Simple Gifts provide an entertaining and sensitive vision of what it is to be human.
