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Do You Copy?

uses bunraku-style puppets and live-video to investigate the virtual world.

Inside one frumpy, overweight puppet's malfunctioning television set is a surreal dream world where he meets multiple copies of himself over and over again.

When his copies reveal a dark secret, our hero must decide what makes him truly original!

Do You Copy? has been developed and performed in short sections at the Hoontown International Puppet Festival 05, the Puppet Rampage Festival 07, One Arm Red, The Little Angel Theatre, and the Puppet Centre Trust. It is supported by NYSCA, the Puffin Foundation, and private donors.

"Hypnotic images!"


--- Lake Simons

In society, we are saturated by media and technology, fueling our anxieties about its effects on our behavior, our psyches, and our interior lives. Our sense of self becomes more and more defined by our relationship with each of our multiplied and mediatized selves. Through webpages, social networking, email, and digital pictures we publicly and privately define ourselves. Do You Copy? addresses this anxiety. Instead of blaming technology for the destruction of society and personal identity, Copy suggests our own complicity in creating and understanding our ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ selves.

Videos by Jimi Pantalon
Puppeteers Eric Wright, Ceili Clemens, Kirsten Kammermeyer, Ari Boles, Keri Lewis, Matt Groff, Jon Levin, Jamie Samowitz, Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith, Alexis Macnab, Matt Leabo, Miyu Leilani, Serra Hirsch, Adam Ende, Duskin Drum, Tamara, Jenny Campbell, Tom Knight, Emmy Bean, William, Sharon, Martina Plag, Stacey Weingarten
Direction & Puppet/ Set Design Kate Brehm
Puppet Design Associate Andy Jones
Video Design Hal Eager, Z Briggs, Guy Hilton, Jana Reidel, and KBrehm
Original music Raja Ajar (other tracks by Tangerine Dream and The Tango Project)
Builders Tom Aizlewood, Helen Laing, Liat, Timmah, Andy Jones, Francis Aizlewood, Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith, Nina Kyle
Stage Assistance Bob Culek, Lauren Keenan
Work in Progress Performances
  • Bangkok International Fringe Festival 2005
  • Puppeteers of America, Puppet Rampage Festival 2007
  • One Arm Red July 2008
  • One Arm Red Nov 2008
Residencies
  • Fall 2005 - Development at the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater, NYC
  • Spring 2007 - Development at the Ommaney Studio and the Puppet Cetre Trust, London
  • Summer 2007 - Development at Little Angel Theater, London
  • Spring 2008 - Development at One Arm Red in Brooklyn
Work in Progress Photos
Do You Copy in Bangkok Do You Copy at the Little Angel Theatre Do You Copy at the Puppet Rampage Do You Copy at the Puppet Centre Trust Do You Copy at the Puppet Rampage Do You Copy at the Puppet Rampage
Do You Copy in Bangkok Do You Copy at the Puppet Centre Trust Do You Copy at the Puppet Centre Trust Do You Copy at the Puppet Rampage Do You Copy at the Puppet Rampage Do You Copy at the Puppet Rampage
Produced by imnotlost.
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Financial support from NYSCA and the Puffin Foundation.

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