BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Additional Performance
Saturday, February 4 @ 5:00pm 

January 27 + 28, February 3 + 4
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:30pm

Who’s Hungry – Santa Monica, is part of an ongoing series of experimental tabletop puppet plays that give a voice and face to hunger.  Produced and written by Dan Froot, designed and directed by Dan Hurlin, with music by Amy Denio, the plays aim to raise awareness of the lives of those of us who, on a daily basis, must choose between life’s basic necessities – food or rent, food or medicine, food or bus fare.

This installment in the series tells the oral histories of five very different homeless and hungry Santa Monicans, through five 15- to 20-minute segments, woven together much as a chef weaves a succession of flavors into a cohesive multi-course meal. Overall, the project incorporates a range of puppetry styles in order to give each of the five stories its own aesthetic treatment. Presented on a specially built 24-foot dinner table, the audience views the action from one side, as if they are banquet guests. Incorporated into the evening are Delft china, Matchbox cars, televisions, rod puppets, as well as puppets inspired by Japanese Bunraku, and much more.

Joining the audience at the table are:

- Angel – who tumbled into homelessness after a prominent career as an interior designer

- Sharon – a caseworker for an addiction recovery agency and recovering heroin addict herself

- Chris – an original member of the notorious 1970s surfing/skateboarding crew known as the ZBoys

- Mike – who endured an eviction from subsidized housing while undergoing a dire health crisis

- Chanel – who headed to New York City when the World Trade Center towers collapsed, feeling the need to run down the street in fear with her fellow New Yorkers

$20/$15