Touring Sep 17 - Oct 5, 2025
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9/17 Franconia Sculpture Garden
9/22 Maplewood Historical Society (RAIN DATE)
9/24 Wolfe Park Amphitheater, St. Louis Park MN
9/25 Caponi Art Park, Eagan MN
9/26 St. Olaf College (On the Quad)
photos by Jayme Halbritter
On June 8 2024, an audience of three hundred sat down in the grass in the St. Croix Valley to watch a special work-in-progress presentation of a new show, "The Paper Operetta." The story centered around a world of Medieval two-dimensional paper dolls at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, building the first thing to exist in a new dimension-- a human.
From out of this workshop emerges "TIGRE! TIGRE!" a new play touring Minnesota and Wisconsin in Fall 2025, including stops in Franconia, Maplewood, Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, Eagan, Northfield, Winona, Viroqua, La Crosse, Hayward, and Bayfield.
Combining puppetry, traditional clown theater, and a live score influenced by everything from Medieval court music to Gilbert & Sullivan, "TIGRE! TIGRE!" explores humanity's absurd relationship to technology while asking the fundamental question: what drives us to perpetually open new doors that we know we won't be able to close?
"Tigre! Tigre!"
written and designed by Nat Allister
directed by Kathryn Cesarz
featuring the devising, fabricating, and performing talents of
Emilia Björk-Perkins as Zazeleschaton
Chase Perkins as Proteus
Laura Murillo-Hart as the Augur
Abby Palen
Madi White
Milo Whitson
Dez Brandes
libretto composed and performed by
Lucy London
Josh Conroy
Nat Allister
and Bellingham WA's Three for Silver:
(Lucas Warford, Delin Ruhl, Strangely Doesburg)
character illustrations by Henry Lipkis
puppet + scenic painting and add'l designs by Abby Palen
shadow sequence by Becca Mellstrom
augur puppet by Caro Pimentel and Madeline Shows
and many great volunteers over Labor Day weekend
stage mgmt + spotlight operation
Nate Searls
lighting design + operation
Adrien Wittlieff
poster art by Logan Szymanowski
"TIGRE! TIGRE!" was partially devised by thirteen artists over three weeks at the Acreage in Osceola, WI under the working title of "The Paper Operetta," directed by Benjamin Domask-Ruh with Chase and Emilia Perkins, Abby Palen, Camellia Nieh, Lucy London, Josh Conroy, Lucas Warford, Nathan Berry, Grace Daily, Micael Gauger, K8 Lacy, Nat Allister.
Click on any photo to read Cast Bios!
