FREE EVENT!
Hip Pocket Theatre's 3rd Annual Twilight Soiree
An outdoor participatory spectacle for all ages.
Join puppetry artists Chris Green, Erin Orr, and Lake Simons to envision, build and enliven masks, puppets and large scale images to celebrate the season. The Twilight Soiree is a community art experience that needs your creative ideas, skills and participation. All ages and skill levels are welcomed!
What is it?
The Twilight Soiree is an annual, ever-evolving immersive performance created by the community to explore the natural landscape as a theatrical space. With the dying sun as our light and grassy berms as our set, audiences gather at twilight to be led on a 25-minute immersive journey through installations, vignettes, soundscapes, and uncanny realms...all performed by the community using masks, puppetry, sound, and light.
How can I participate?
Adults
sign up to help envision and build the spectacle (see below!)
sign up to perform as a puppeteer or masked actor
drop by on the the open studio days to help build
Families
come to a family open studio to build puppets or masks to use in the show
perform in in the show together as a family unit
When is it?
Envisioning and building: Sign up to let us know when you can help October 21-29
Open studios for adults: Oct 24 noon to 8p, Oct 25 & 26 5p onward, Oct 28 & 29 noon-5
Open studios for families: Oct 24 after school or Oct 26 1p-4p
Rehearsals (adults): Oct 27- Oct 30 6:30-8:30PM
Rehearsals (families): Oct 30 5:30- 8:00PM
Show dates: October 31, Nov 1, Nov 2 @ 7PM (Performers will need to arrive no later than 6:30p)
When can I see it?
Friday-Sunday, October 31-November 2 at 6:45pm. Performed & experienced before the 8:15 PM stage show of Frankenstein.
Where is it?
Location: 1950 Silver Creek Road, Ft. Worth 76108
The Twilight Soiree takes place at the front of the property at Hip Pocket Theatre.
It is approximately 25 minutes in length.
About the guest artists…
Chris Green and Erin K. Orr, our fearless resident artists.
Chris Green is a Tennessee-born, Brooklyn-based designer, performer, and director. His original theatrical, cinematic, and immersive projects draw from the vast tool-kit of visual theater and puppetry with works presented over the past 27 years both nationally and internationally. Honors and grants include: Creative Capital Award, MacDowell Fellowship, LMCC Process Space grant, as well as multiple grants from Theater Communications Group and the Jim Henson Foundation. Film credits as performer and visual effects designer include ‘Silo’ directed by David Soll (shot inside a defunct Atlas-C missile silo) and ‘White Noise’ directed by Noah Baumbach. In 2006, Green founded Chris Green Kinetics – an award-winning interdisciplinary design studio creating one-of-a-kind theatrical productions and interactive installations with a wide variety of partners and clients ranging from non-profit museums to major theme parks (chrisgreenkinetics.com). Recent projects include kinetic set design for David Neumann and Marcella Murray’s Obie Award-winning ‘Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed.’ Current projects include stop-motion puppetry for the artist Swoon’s upcoming feature film ‘Sibylant Sisters.’ Green has had the honor of working with Erin K. Orr and Lake Simons over the years to stage community-driven pageantry on the acreage around Hip Pocket theater and is thrilled to be returning for this next adventure.
Erin K. Orr is absorbed in the creative alchemy of turning the raw ingredients of images, objects, folklore and food into a feast. Erin creates puppet works in collaboration with living composers ranging from a dark fairytale for adults, to a circus about the real life drama of honeybees and a puppet musical inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca. She has received grants from LMCC, the Jim Henson Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. Erin also creates thematic dinners for immersive theatrical events and is currently working on a storytelling dinner that draws on Estonian werewolf lore and personal narrative exploring hunger and domestication. She is an award winning arts educator who has taught puppetry throughout the NYC public schools for 30 years, and works as an artist mentor and curriculum specialist for federally funded research about literacy and puppetry. She has worked for over 20 years with Chris Green and Lake Simons and is pleased to return to create her 8th Hip Pocket Puppet Pageant!