New Yorks Puppet Comedy Senseless! A Brick Foley Adventure Comes to Minnesota

Bryant Lake Bowl Theater and CONvergence present the Minnesota premiere of Senseless! A Brick Foley Adventure, created and directed by Elizabeth Hara. Performances will take place at Bryant Lake Bowl on Friday and Saturday, July 5th and 6th, at 7pm. Senseless! will also be performing at the sci-fi convention CONvergence Saturday morning at 11am, preceded by a panel on puppetry with the performers. Tickets at Bryant Lake Bowl: $12 general; $10 with a Fringe button. Bryant Lake Bowl is located at 810 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55408. Tickets may be purchased by calling the BLBT Box Office at 612-825-8949 or online at www.bryantlakebowl.com. Tickets for the CONvergence performance and panel are included in convention registration, available at http://convergence-con.org.

Senseless! A Brick Foley Adventure is a puppet show inspired by old-time radio shows. In this noir comedy, blind detective Brick Foley must solve a series of murders at the Helen Keller School of Music. With the help of his partner Murphy, he must track down the murderer to save the school and the woman he loves. Staged like a live radio play, the Foley sound effects are brought to life to create puppets and scenery, with plenty of slapstick, live music, and hotdogs.

Senseless! premiered as part of the Puppet Lab series at the renowned St. Anns Warehouse in New York City. It has been performed at the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, Bostons Puppet Showplace Theater, and the New Orleans Fringe Festival, where it was called "a nearly flawless performance" by the NOLA Defender. Inspired by the shows of the Golden Age of radio and by live performances of NPR's Prairie Home Companion, the show brings the exciting and chaotic sound effects props table to life with object-theatre puppetry.

Creator and Director Elizabeth Hara is an Emmy-nominated puppet and costume builder for Sesame Street. She has also built for Broadways Avenue Q and has made costumes for The Lion King, Shrek the Musical, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. A Maple Grove, MN native, she is a Vassar graduate, and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Puppeteers of America National Festival.

Senseless! features the performing talents of Brendan Yi-Fu Tay (The Puppet Kitchen,) Sarah Lafferty (Castleton Opera Festival,) Katrina Denney (Fundamental Theatre Project), and Emmy Award-winner Michael Schupbach (Sesame Street, Johnny and the Sprites) Eric Wright (The Puppet Kitchen, The Metropolitan Opera, The Public Theatre) and David Brown (poorbutsexydc.com, bit.ly/ufofactory).

For more information about Senseless!, contact Elizabeth Hara at ekhara@gmail.com or at 612-296-6017.

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