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Redmoon Theater might well be the most intriguing and visionary theater company in Chicago. Founded in 1990, the company produces "spectacle theater" involving masks, objects, and an international range of puppetry styles in indoor and outdoor venues around town. Utterly hypnotic, highly acrobatic and visceral, and using minimal narration, Redmoon's adaptations of Melville's Moby Dick, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Rachel's Love, an original work based on Jewish folktales, were revelations that earned the company an ardent and burgeoning following. Every September, Redmoon presents an annual "spectacle," transforming a public park into a site for performance art, larger-than-life puppet shows, and dramatic visual effects.
Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Chicago 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Redmoon Theater
Redmoon Theater might well be the most intriguing and visionary theater company in Chicago. Founded in 1990, the company produces "spectacle theater" involving masks, objects, and an international range of puppetry styles in indoor and outdoor venues around town. Utterly hypnotic, highly acrobatic and visceral, and using minimal narration, Redmoon's adaptations of Melville's Moby Dick, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Rachel's Love, an original work based on Jewish folktales, were revelations that earned the company an ardent and burgeoning following. Every September, Redmoon presents an annual "spectacle," transforming a public park into a site for performance art, larger-than-life puppet shows, and dramatic visual effects.
Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Chicago 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.
