On tour to high schools and middle schools in Sonoma County, CA.
Produced in collaboration with Sonoma County Repertory Theater, funded by a “Shakespeare in American Communities” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The full production from 2009 is now available on DVD! See Media for details. Here’s a 10-minute preview:
Produced in collaboration with Sonoma County Repertory Theater, Sebastopol, CA
Shakespeare’s classic comedy/drama of redemption, newly envisioned as a live theatrical animation with puppets, masks, live actors, and a rich audio score.
Directed and designed by Conrad Bishop, music by Elizabeth Fuller. Featuring Bishop, Anthony Abate, Jessica Bauman, Benjamin Stowe, and Jan Freifeld as the actor/animators of Shakespeare’s unforgettable panoply of magician, spirits, slaves, courtiers and lovers.
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Written by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller, Rash Acts was described by American Theatre Magazine in its earlier East Coast version as “a series of highly premeditated acts of imagination and intelligence.”
A young couple trapped for life on the freeway, an aged widower beset by swarms of telemarketers, a dead queen resurrected in shadow, a magical baby who grows too big for his diaper, and a grown-up Alice who falls down the rabbit hole into the evening news.
With thirty-two puppets, directed and designed by Bishop, with music by Fuller.
Created by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller in an entirely new staging by The Independent Eye’s Mythic Kitchen ensemble.
Based on a 5,000-year-old Sumerian myth from the land that is now Iraq, this live theatrical animation features 17 large puppets, 8 actors, music, video, and the dazzling richness, broad humor and erotic imagery of the ancient texts. A stunning tale of a goddess’s coming of age, mating, death and rebirth, it’s the earliest recorded resurrection story—and one for today.
Our solo clown nightmare featuring Elizabeth Fuller and her seven sisters, all named Elizabeth—the Developer, the Plumber, the Dreamer, the Inspector, the Gambler, the Slut—trying to build a workable identity out of wigs, ladders, and plumbing pipe.
“It’s what Allen Ginsberg might have written had he been a woman.”—North Bay Bohemian
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Now booking for future tour.
The ancient Norse equivalent of the Apocalypse. The Gods see themselves under dire threat of attack by the Primal Ones, and, in the name of security, methodically set up the means of their own self-destruction.
On his historic round-the-world voyage, Francis Drake put his friend Sir Thomas Doughty on trial for sedition, mutiny and black magic. A death sentence. Then the prosecutor and the condemned sat down privately to a sumptuous meal. What did they talk about?
And in another time zone, a young woman drives to L.A. on a business trip, but finds herself haunted by Drake and Doughty, munching French fries.
Gold Rush country. Wartime, 1944. Justice and community fragmentation in a climate of fear. A local war hero is killed while hunting. Suspicion falls on “Wild Bill” Ebaugh, a long-haired eccentric rumored to run naked in the woods, have many lovers, poach livestock and serenade the hills. A bounty is posted, a young man shoots him dead and collects three hundred bucks. Justice or murder? Was Ebaugh a dangerous psychotic or a gentle giant? The ensuing firestorm of controversy cast a long shadow over Nevada County for decades. The play centers on three families: those of the murder victim, the relentless sheriff, and the young bounty hunter.
from The Tempest
from Rash Acts
from Descent of the Goddess Inanna
from Dream House
from Ragnarok
from Drake’s Drum
from Long Shadow
