Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: A Toy Theater Atlas

Puppetry, Adaptation - Edinburgh Fringe

Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: A Toy Theater Atlas

Toy Atlas Theater (Chicago, USA)

Calvino’s stunning language springs to life in a cascade of trapdoors, surprises and reveals. As Kublai Khan feels his empire eroding beneath him, Marco Polo forms the slipping sands into the cities of the emperors dreams. This adaptation in miniature casts a dreamlike spell over the audience using live projection, puppetry, paper mechanics and living sculpture as two performers manipulate tiny cameras on a small table. This show has been stunning audiences in theatres and barns across the United States, including a sold-out run at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.