MAGIC LANTERN STUDIO & SANCTUM THEATRE

 

THE MAN WHO CANNOT SLEEP

 
WHITE NIGHT 2018

A giant head sits on a street corner. He has woken up in the past, our present. He does not want to fall asleep again. He does not want to return to the devastated land of the future. Throughout the night he witnesses our revelry, us naive Lilliputians, and cannot believe his eyes.
 
A surrealist performance combining puppetry and projection, The Man Who Cannot Sleep is a gargantuan emissary from the world of dreams. It is an ode to a civilization on the verge of collapse.
 
Conceived by Magic Lantern Studio’s Gonzalo Varela and realised in collaboration with Sanctum Theatre’s Lachlan Plain. The Man Who Cannot Sleep premieres at White Night 2018.

 

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PEARLY WHITES

HEALTH EDUCATION THROUGH
PUPPETRY AND CLOWNING

“The crowd that was absolutely glued to each show of the Pearly Whites installation. I’ve never seen a crowd so locked in to a performance at a festival!”

–Roland Fraval, City of Whittlesea

 

Explore Doctor Hal E. Tosis’ giant toothy cavern and learn everything there is to know about dental hygiene. An interactive, entertaining installation and performance for kids of all ages.

Presented by Sanctum Theatre & Magic Lantern Studio.

Developed with the support of City of Whittlesea.

Other Acts

Sanctum Theatre and Magic Lantern have been touring roving acts and puppet shows to festivals around Victoria since 2012.

Festivals include Moomba, Castlemaine State Festival, Ballarat Heritage Weekend, The Docklands Winter Festival, So Frenchy So Chic, The Village Festival, Darebin Homestead Open Day, Tarrengower Puppet Festival, The Yellow Sunshine Festival (CERES), Practically Green Festival, Banyule Kid’s Arty Farty Festival, Rancho Relaxo and Renaissance Festival.
SANCTUM THEATRE is a lens through which monstrous apparitions are made manifest. It tears fissures in the fabric of monotony, creating moments of communal madness. Sanctum Theatre is a Melbourne-based visual performance company and has been presenting live art in everyday spaces since 2006.
MAGIC LANTERN STUDIO is a space where dreams come together, a place of suspended time and a refuge from the digital avalanche. It is based in Brunswick Street Fitzroy and has been creating puppet shows, public art and murals in the city since 2009.

Pigsy, Nanny and all the others wish you a ve-e-e-ery me-e-e-erry Christmas and hope you have an ever so slightly insane New Years.

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