BYLINA

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(In Process)

Bylina (Russian for “Things that were”) is a devised theater piece exploring abstracted, Russian magic tales through inventive scene work, music, puppetry and hopefully a bit of magic. Russian magic tales are uniquely bizarre and intriguing. People turn into animals on a whim, heroes are killed, sewn back together and killed again, good and evil are ambiguous and malleable. The tales confound our modern logic but are a key insight into how our ancestors made sense of the world, what they valued and the stretches of their imagination. Forgoing the babushkas and samovars, the project aims to reveal the archetypal narrative that is ingrained in the very fabric of our collective unconscious, connecting our past to our present.

The project has previously been developed in Lee Bruer's Pataphysics workshop and presented at New Light Theater Project's Darkroom Series. It was most recently seen at Drinking with Puppets: A Low-Income Gala at Standard Toykraft in Brooklyn.