The Jester of Tonga by Joseph Silovsky Dec. 6 @ 9:30, Dec. 7 @ 8:00, Dec. 8 @ 9:30, Dec. 9 @ 3:00

"The Jester of Tonga” is a humorous, original solo-performance work inspired by true stories from the country of Tonga – a small island country in the Pacific. The piece features an animatronic/marionette robot, two-dimensional cut-out puppets, toy theater - style miniatures, video projection, object theater, as well as many zany and wonderful gadgets. Joseph Silovsky is a performance artist from Oklahoma. He has been performing solo and group shows for over 15 years. His original work has been performed at Links Hall and the Hot House in Chicago, Chashama, the Ontological-Hysteric theater, Tonic, PS122, the Arts at St. Ann’s Puppet Lab in New York, and the International Performance Festival in Rakvere, Estonia. He has also worked in various capacities (performer, designer, technical director and set builder) for Radiohole, Tutto and the Ragman, The Builders Association, Richard Maxwell and Richard Foreman.

Photo by Richard Termine