The
Puppet Maker:
A Story of Christmas (1999)
After
performing his second favorite Christmas story, A Christmas Carol, for
twelve years, David Simpich decided to design and perform his first. In this solo theatre presentation,
David
Simpich portrays a village woodcarver painstakingly preparing a marionette Nativity
scene for a local Christmas music festival.
The audience steps inside his marionette workshop on the eventful
night before the pageant as he applies the
finishing touches to his figures of the Wise Men, Mary and Joseph...
Utilizing a cast of nearly twenty hand-carved marionettes,
Simpich weaves the
old and new to create a warm,
startling
and reverent celebration of
The
Christmas Story.
