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Sonatas and Soundscapes

AVA/ADA Brings Fantastical Theatre to Life with Puppetry, Original Score

Published May 30, 2016 at 12:18 PM EDT

Manual Cinema’s Drew Dir joins SCPRS’s Kate McKinney for a conversation about Ada/Ava, a multimedia work that combines Dir’s shadow puppetry with an original score. Live actors and musicians share the stage with shadow puppets to tell the story of sisters Ada and Ava while exploring the human struggles of loss and self-discovery. Ada/Ava marks performance collective Manual Cinema’s Spoleto Festival USA debut.