With Their Very Bones
With Their Very Bones
Chapter Two of The Dinosaur Opera
Work in Progress premiered October 2024 at Halloween Communion: a Circus Open Stage, Aloft Circus Arts in Chicago, IL, USA
Writer / Director / Puppet Designer and Fabricator / Solo Performer: Gretchen Hasse
Documentation by Danny Smitherman, EEI Media; and Nancy Behall
With Their Very Bones is a vaudeville-inspired hand puppet performance that addresses humanity’s continued dependence on fossil fuels. It introduces The Huckster and his “act,” Suitcase the Dinosaur (who lives in a suitcase). This pair serves as an interstitial narrative guide to The Dinosaur Opera, taking the audience from chapter to chapter across vast stretches of time.