Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner Cabaret

Small-scale shows by Great Small Works and friends
$20 suggested donation, tickets available at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds

"We Love Trees"

by John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Marji Gere and Dan Sedgwick

This paper theater play with live music by Gere (violin) and Sedgwick (piano) features a magnificent copper beech tree which grew in Somerville, MA, on the same land where the musical Hadley family lived in the early 20th century. It celebrates trees, and what we can learn from them. With texts from Peter Wohlleben, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jill Jonnes, and music by Henry Kimball Hadley and Stevie Wonder.  

"Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser"

by Mark Sussman

A native of Biel, Switzerland, Robert Walser has been described as “a clairvoyant of the small.” A writer of keenly detailed observational prose, he published feuilletons, stories, and short novels in the early years of the 20th century. With limited means of support and suffering from a mental breakdown, he later moved to a sanitarium where he walked the countryside, producing no further writing. A collection of microscopic texts, written on the backs of visiting cards, envelopes, and matchbooks, was found in a shoebox after his death in 1956. Using a “cranky” – a hand-cranked moving scroll – with flat paper puppets and rear-projected video to evoke this solitary and contemplative life.

Full line-up coming soon!

Serving of spaghetti to be determined... out of Covid safety concerns there likely will not be sharing of food for this event.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional thanks to: Puppet Slam Network, Scherman Foundation, and the Constance and Jarvis Doctorow Family Foundation.

Info: 917-319-8104