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Basil Twist

BASIL TWIST

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Basil Twist's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Araneidae Show, The         Arias With A Twist         Behind the Lid         Dogugaeshi         Symphonie Fantastique

Araneidae Show, The

Synopsis:
A solo puppetry extravaganza of showgirls, lonely streets, cats, deconstructing theatre, sex, despair, magic, metamorphosis, and the fragile web if illusion sometimes called 'reality'. From deep inside his puppet stage and himself one lone puppeteer unravels, unveils, and unleashes this vulgar and spectacular story through the power of surreal imagery, baroque machinery, and the heartbreaking tiny gestures of his miniature actors.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
ICA, London >>>    17 Jan 2002

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Arias With A Twist

Synopsis:
Drag chanteuse extraordinaire Joey Arias and master puppeteer Basil Twist invite you on a magical mystery tour through space and time. From a neon-lit space lab, to an abundant Garden of Eden, to a smoky Manhattan night club, Arias with a Twist is a trippy, madcap, musical fantasia of ecstatic desires and eye-popping enchantments. With Arias legendary voice, and Twists spectacular puppetry, this sometimes racy, occasionally raunchy, and always riveting (New York Daily News) production is not to be missed!

Notes:
Created by Joey Arias And Basil Twist

1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams theater
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013    12 Jun 2008

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Gay full length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Behind the Lid

Synopsis:
chronicles a woman looking back on her life through a dream; her memories expand, open, and reveal while an intimate audience of 18 will travel with her through this hand made world. Audience members are guided by a young man familiar through this older woman's life and dreams.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
created And performed by Lee Nagrim And Basil Twist

1st Produced:
Silver Whale Gallery    2007

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dogugaeshi

Synopsis:
Japan Society presents Dogugaeshi, a collaboration between puppeteer Basil Twist (Symphonie Fantastique) and Japanese composer/musician Yumiko Tanaka. the following description is from the show's press release: "A ferocious tiger appears amidst a bamboo thicket. the urban cityscape of Tokyo dissolves in the whirlpool of ritual and history. Basil Twist unfolds an intimate, abstract journey of images of ancient and modern Japan in this multidisciplinary theater work. A beguiling snow-white fox invites the audience into a transformational world of illusions, in which nearly 100 handcrafted painted screens open, glide, twist and turn to reveal one more powerful and intricate than the next. Inspired by rarified traditional Japanese dogugaeshi stage mechanism and Twist's own encounters with the remaining rural caretakers of this once popular art form."
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
created by Basil Twist And Yumiko Tanaka

1st Produced:
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Ny    2007

Organisations:
Japan Society

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Piece 60 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  puppeteers

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Symphonie Fantastique

Synopsis:
A unique and sensational abstract puppetry show, choreographed to the five movements of Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. Inside a water-filled, five hundred gallon, glass-walled tank, American puppeteer Basil Twist and his company manipulate fabrics, feathers, glitter, mirrors, dyes, overhead projections, 8mm film, air bubbles and fishing lures. The effect is a mind-boggling kaleidoscope of colour and movement, an ever changing carousel of fabulous images, It's like listening to music with your eyes.

Notes:
London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
ICA, London >>>    15 Jan 2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
mime 60 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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