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Disfarmer
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Calendar: Art History and Archaeology
Date: Friday 11/6/2009
2 Week(s) 4 Day(s) ago
Time: 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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DISFARMER 
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin  
original music by Dan Moses Schreier  
text by Sally Oswald 

Thursday, November 5 . 8PM 
Friday, November 6 . 8PM 

Ina & Jack Kay Theatre  
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT 
 

 
 
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.

This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts. 
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center


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