Mid-morning on Tuesday at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, a puppet named Michael K had just grabbed a mug when the director Lara Foot called a pause to the action onstage.
Even frozen mid-gesture, he was subtle, human, uncanny — a striking alchemy of art and imagination.
In “Life & Times of Michael K,” based on the 1983 novel of the same name by the South African-born Nobel laureate J.M.
Coetzee, this puppet is the sinewy, carved-wood star, designed and created by Adrian Kohler of Handspring Puppet Company.
At two-thirds the size of an average adult human, Michael is operated bunraku-style by a team of three puppeteers.
Persons:
Michael K, Lara Foot, “, ”, J.M . Coetzee, Adrian Kohler, Michael, Craig Leo
Organizations:
Handspring Puppet
Locations:
St, Ann’s, Brooklyn