After last season’s sold-out BUG GIRL, Open Eye Theatre is heading back to the Bakken Museum for more Halloween fun! Night Shade from Portland, OR and Mr. Bonetangles from Austin, TX come to the Bakken’s roof for a special Halloween puppetry extravaganza!
Get your scream on this October with the Halloween live-action shadow show ORDER OF WOLF, a collection of several hair-raising and haunting stories conjured by the creative wizardry of Night Shade, the celebrated puppet collective from Portland, OR.
Bring your lawn chair, your coziest flannel shirt, and a companion to clutch as Night Shade illuminates layers of spine-chilling imagery that unfold out of the pages of a handmade pop-up book and flow across a giant shadow screen like film.
Demonic hosts Shady Shayla and Creepy Cindy will call forth the spirits of MINNEAPOLIS, joined by a cast of witchy misfits flipping the mix on tales from the Night Shade crypt: Watch in horror as a giant anunnaki pig has his fill of a pig themed Portlandia restaurant! Freeze in terror as the spirits of an ancient blood ritual between men and wolves is projected from a ceremonial grimoire! Claw the edge of your seat as a young boy tries to save his father's soul; and almost loses his own! Gasp as ghosts fly from an ancient manuscript and sit with YOU in the audience.
Opening for Night Shade is Mr. Bonetangles (maestro of marionette mayhem Will Schutze of Austin, TX) with his haunting cast of spooky skeletons and punk rock rabbits!
TICKETS
General Admission*: $24
A limited number of $10 Economic Accessibility tickets are available online for all performances. If not sold out, a limited number of pay as able tickets will be available at the door. View Open Eye Theatre’s ticketing policy.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: Ages 13 and up.
*Includes admission to The Bakken Museum.
PERFORMANCE
SCHEDULE
Thursday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.
RUN TIME: 60 Minutes, no intermission.
ACCESSIBILITY
Contact Open Eye at boxoffice@openeyetheatre.org or 612-874-6338 for accessibility information and requests.
COVID-19
This show will be outdoors on the roof of the Bakken Museum. Social distancing is recommended.
About Night Shade
NIGHT SHADE is a group of artists rebelling against traditional flat-surface silhouettes and revolutionizing the ancient art of shadow puppetry by using light to manipulate depth and space. This Portland, OR-based art group formed after a collaboration with the band JAPANTHER back in 2005. Since then, award-winning puppetry artist Sarah Frechette and film director Jason Thibodeaux have toured internationally as NIGHT SHADE, while also honing their skills by working on Adult Swim’s tv series THE SHIVERING TRUTH, as well as, stop-mo feature films like Guillermo Del Toro's PINOCCHIO; and Monkey Paw Productions' WENDELL & WILD. This artist collective blends hand-held lights, hundreds of hand-cut shadow puppets, composed music, sound-effects, and experimental storytelling into a bewitching form of cinematic puppetry. Joining this rooftop conjuring is Austin-based marionette artist Will Schutze. Past touring credits include: the 11th Internationales Schattentheater Festival in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany; 2019 Puppeteers of America National Puppetry Festival; Open Eye Figure Theater in Minneapolis, MN; Desert Island Studios in Portland, OR; Giant Puppetry Festival, New Orleans, LA; and a collaboration with Pixies / Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lechantin in Los Angeles, CA.