The puppet designs draw on the idea of an authoritarian society with limited resources, incorporating the kinds of improvised materials and handmade objects that might emerge in such an environment. Together, these influences reinforce the play’s exploration of imagination, storytelling, and the uneasy intersection between innocence and darkness.
Through a collaborative partnership with the Guadalupe-Parkway Neighborhood Sommerville Centers, Theatre & Dance graduate students and faculty are discovering that the greatest learning experiences are not always in the classroom at all, but sometimes in the community itself.
While universities are often asked to prepare students for careers, the arts remind us that imagination shapes every career, every relationship, every community, and every vision of the future. Imagination helps us picture not only what we might do, but whom we might become.