From December 4th 2003 – December 27th, 2003, I performed in Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary with The Gold Dust Orphans at Machine (a.k.a. Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts) in Boston. Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary was an adaptation of Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Ryan Landry and directed by James P. Byrne. In Virgin Mary, Mary and Joseph’s quarelling escalates when pagans, Nick Kringle and his wife, Honey Frost, set up shop in Jeruselum. While Joseph is threatened by Nick, Mary is set on seducing him. For this production, I designed, built, and activated barnyard puppets for Mary and Joseph’s manger and performed a nativity scene flashback with Barbie dolls. Continue reading “Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary, Boston (theatre, puppet design)”
