Black Cherry Puppet Theater has been commissioned by Quest Visual Theater to create a new marionette show: Between Mean
featuring live music accompaniment by Walker and Jay
Between Mean will be performed Friday March 30 and Saturday March 31
3134 Eastern Avenue Baltimore MD 21224
Tickets are available through the Creative Alliance box office or at Choice Ticketing
Photo: Black Cherry Puppet Theatre
The Black Cherry Puppet Theater’s puppets collaborate with musicians in a study of loss, remorse and redemption. Marionettes, hand puppets and shadows take a delightful dance through folklore, mythos, music and death in a visual telling of an old story. The audience follows the hero first through green verdant gardens as they grow seedy, weedy, until he finds himself in an urban wasteland watched by a darker side. He relives memories of one true love and how he lost it. He decides he loves what he no longer has and goes to get back what he never wanted, but now sees as his. Meanwhile, the woman isn’t quite what he thought he thought she was. This is the story of a man’s journey as he discovers he never knew what he had until it was gone. When he gets it back, does he really want it after all?
Michael Lamason, executive director
William Haas, co-director
Jennifer Strunge, puppeteer/education
Lisa Krause, puppeteer/education
James DiLisio, Musician
Walker Teret, Musician
Black Cherry Puppet Theater is an association of artists and performers blending decades of craft and innovation to breath life into the art of puppetry.
Company artists pursue three goals: Excellence at the art of puppetry, making the tradition of puppetry accessible to all audiences, and using puppetry as an educational tool.
Black Cherry’s values:
- Art is central to our mission and work.
- Art is an essential part of achieving success in school, life and work.
- Achieving the highest quality education and community arts programs.
- Being an anchor in the Southwest Baltimore Community, by supporting community-based activities and buying local goods and services.
- Providing affordable programming to audiences and communities without access to high quality art.
- Attention to our planet by re-using materials and adapting recycling principles throughout the creative process.
The troupe has performed for tens of thousands with a repertoire that includes complex marionettes, transformation puppets, object-theater, shadow puppets and giant parade puppets. Black Cherry has developed innovative, educational programming for children and youth.
