THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR TODAY DUE TO BLIZZARD WARNINGS.

We thank you for your itnerest and support of the Watermill Center, and will have the Spring Season of Open Rehearsals available online in the New Year.  

Best wishes for glorious and healthy holidays.

Sherry Dobbin

Program Director, The Watermill Center

Wakka Wakka Productions is an award-winning theatre company based in New York City, of American and Norwegian artists. Their new piece, Baby Universe, is inspired by scientific events and theories of our time. Employing hand-and-rod puppets, robots (The Stephen Hawking 5000), video projection, and animation, Baby Universe is about the search for answers to the philosophical questions of our existence, as told through the relationship of an isolated woman and her mail order companion, “Baby Universe.” Baby Universe uses science, religion, and the imagination to explore the human relationship to birth, death, the need for companionship and the fear of isolation.  This open rehearsal will showcase the last weeks’ experimentation with a new style of presentation.

Wakka Wakka Productionshave created and produced six original works of innovative visual theatre, overlapping in a wide range of styles, incorporating object movement, puppetry, and masks. In 2007, they performed at the National Theatre of Norway in a centennial celebration of the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Their latest production Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz received a Drama Desk Award Nomination, Unima Citation of Excellence, and Henry Hewes Award Nomination for Puppet Design. More information is available at www.wakkawakka.org.

This work-in-progress showing is part of The Watermill Center's Fall 2009 Artists-in-Residency program, which sponsors emerging artists and scholars from around the globe who are exploring the creation of collaborative works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice.