Lone Wolf Tribe is a puppet theatre ensemble creating visceral and challenging multidisciplinary work since 1997. Tribe productions are virtuosic, psychologically dark and brutally poetic; deceptively simple (using elegant theatrical minimalism) or rigorously complex (employing aerial puppetry sequences), the common denominator is Artistic Director, Kevin Augustine and his foam rubber puppets.
Acting in the plays he writes while animating the puppets he makes, Augustine and friends explore the terrifying edges of existence and creation--while touching the heart...and breaking it sometimes.
Lone Wolf Tribe productions have been published, toured internationally, won awards on both coasts, and received generous funding from numerous foundations and individuals. Offoffonline has called Kevin Augustine, “one of the greatest puppet artisans working today.... Lone Wolf Tribe and company have proven themselves capable of creating brilliant works of art.”
While God the Father struggles with dementia, the dismembered Mother Goddess crawls through the dark of heaven's basement; calls for salvation go unanswered as the world below spins closer toward Armageddon; tick tock, tick tock... Bride remembers the bloody shift from polytheism to monotheism, conjuring a 4,000 year old love story whose partnership has been long forgotten, and whose reunion may be our only hope.
Called "Utter genius-gorgeous and scary and heartbreaking," by NYtheatre.com, Animal is a labyrinthine excursion through the maze of regulated health care systems and interspecies creation through DNA combination. A shaman and his test subject animal guide explore the dark side of the medical research industry in search of that most ephemeral goal: Happiness.
Winner of the Overall Excellence Award for Solo Show in the NYC Fringe Festival, Big Top Machine sets ancient hero mythology against our modern yearnings for magic as an aerialist performer joins a corporate owned circus in search of wonder, but finds an underworld sideshow instead.
Honored with the "Critic's Choice Award" by the San Francisco Examiner, 10 is a searing investigation of the Creative endeavor. A man left at the altar
subsumes his pain by creating a Frankenstein-like entity; a being made to
dance beautifully to Tchaikovsky... if only he can get the knee caps to work...
Hailed "a minimalist extravaganza and highlight of the NYC Fringe" by
VARIETY, Once Vaudeville is a powerful allegory of an artist's and era's
decline... a darkly comedic portrayal of a ventriloquist whose family and fame
are consumed by the effects of senility and encroaching technology.
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