TroublePuppet Theater’s
“The Case of the Haymarket Riot”
At the FUSEBOX FESTIVAL May 2
and The Firehouse May 3, 9, 10
TroublePuppet Theater Company has created another piece of
inventive, irreverent puppet theater taking aim at history,
politics, and big business. TroublePuppet’s latest, “The Case
of the Haymarket Riot” plays the FUSEBOX Festival Friday,
May 2 and The Firehouse at 3002 Guadalupe on May 3, 9, and
10. Firehouse shows start at 8 pm, tickets are $5. Check
FUSEBOX listings for info on the May 2 show.
The show is an exploration of the issues of immigration and
labor at a crucial point in American history, using puppets, live
music and projections. With Chicago stringband music from
the turn of the 19th century provided by Lauren Gugiolo of the
Dialtones, and projections created by Lettuce Turnip Media,
the piece is a collaborative reworking of TroublePuppet’s
annual May Day show.
Throughout this nation’s short history, generations of
Americans have heard about the danger posed to the our way
of life by immigration. “The Case of the Haymarket Riot”
looks at what was different, and what wasn’t, when the
immigrant “threat” was composed largely of white
Europeans, and big business claimed the economy would
collapse without cheap child labor.
TroublePuppet Theater is directed by Connor Hopkins, who
has been making puppets and trouble in Austin since 1997.
CONTACT: Connor Hopkins
423-5559 and connor@troublepuppet.com
also check www.myspace.com/troublepuppet and www.
troublepuppet.com
TroublePuppet Theater is a sponsored project of Salvage
Vanguard Theatre.
This project is funded and supported in part by the City of
Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from
the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the
National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great
nation deserves great art.
“The Case of the Haymarket Riot”
At the FUSEBOX FESTIVAL May 2
and The Firehouse May 3, 9, 10
TroublePuppet Theater Company has created another piece of
inventive, irreverent puppet theater taking aim at history,
politics, and big business. TroublePuppet’s latest, “The Case
of the Haymarket Riot” plays the FUSEBOX Festival Friday,
May 2 and The Firehouse at 3002 Guadalupe on May 3, 9, and
10. Firehouse shows start at 8 pm, tickets are $5. Check
FUSEBOX listings for info on the May 2 show.
The show is an exploration of the issues of immigration and
labor at a crucial point in American history, using puppets, live
music and projections. With Chicago stringband music from
the turn of the 19th century provided by Lauren Gugiolo of the
Dialtones, and projections created by Lettuce Turnip Media,
the piece is a collaborative reworking of TroublePuppet’s
annual May Day show.
Throughout this nation’s short history, generations of
Americans have heard about the danger posed to the our way
of life by immigration. “The Case of the Haymarket Riot”
looks at what was different, and what wasn’t, when the
immigrant “threat” was composed largely of white
Europeans, and big business claimed the economy would
collapse without cheap child labor.
TroublePuppet Theater is directed by Connor Hopkins, who
has been making puppets and trouble in Austin since 1997.
CONTACT: Connor Hopkins
423-5559 and connor@troublepuppet.com
also check www.myspace.com/troublepuppet and www.
troublepuppet.com
TroublePuppet Theater is a sponsored project of Salvage
Vanguard Theatre.
This project is funded and supported in part by the City of
Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from
the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the
National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great
nation deserves great art.