22 August 2011
CUBE Theatre present their new play Geppetto at Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 27 August.
In New York's lower east side, in the middle of the 1950s, a teenage girl answers a hastily scrawled, advert on a whim. It invites her to audition for the role of puppeteer in a forthcoming production of Pinocchio. But when she enters the shabby flat where the audition is being held, it soon becomes clear that things aren't quite what she was expecting, especially since the odd, foreign-accented, ill-at-ease man she finds there calls himself Geppetto (the name of Pinocchio's father in the original story).
And so begins a bewildering journey of deception and dysfunction, a journey which in its own, bizarre, horrific and comic way threatens to lead them both to the gates of Hell.
Using two performers, combining cube's trademark electric dialogue with mesmerizing puppetry, Geppetto is a heart-rending, but often hilarious story of a broken man's obsessive search for his own puppet-boy, and how the chance pairing of this odd couple offers them both a glimpse of something lost and something yet to be found.
Written by CUBE’s associate writer Jon Welch. Recommended for 11+
Saturday 27 August, 7.30pm. £10/£9 members/£8 concessions
