CAMT Reviews

• New Yorker, June 28, 2007, Once There Was A Village

• New York Times, November 4, 2007, Hamlet

• The Village Voice, January 30th, 2007, Once There Was A Village

• New York Times, June 9, 2006 Bass Saxophone

• New York Times, April 18, 2003, Don Juan

• United Press International, March 8, 2002, Hamlet

• New York Times, December 28, 2001, A Christmas Carol, Oy Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa

• Louis Lopardi, July 23, 2001, Richard III

• Talkin' Broadway, July 17, 2001, Richard III

• The Dance Insider, April 11, 2001, Prose of the Transsiberian and of Little Joan of France

• New York Times, March 31, 2000, Johannes Dokchtor Faust

• New York Times, October 22, 1999, The Fisherman's Clever Daughter

• New York Times, January 15, 1999, Rusalka, the Little Rivermaid

• Time Magazine, November 17, 1997, The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre

The New Yorker

June 28, 2007

ONCE THERE WAS A VILLAGE

Sailing across four hundred years of East Village history with upside-down ironing boards as their vessels, the actors of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre land in a place that's all their own: a folksy, pack-rat surrealist realm of talking suitcases, waltzing mops, and an enormous scaffolding that—with imagination—becomes a teeming tenement. The show takes its time finding its groove, digressing through the Dutch Colonial era before settling, happily, on the furrowed brow of Yuri Kapralov, street artist, madman, and sage of East Sixth Street (played with charisma by Vit Horejs, the show's director). Kapralov, a North Caucasian refugee, helped invent the found-object idiom that Horejs celebrates here, using an array of dramatic vignettes, animated props, and percussive songs. (La Mama, 74A E. 4th St. 212-475-7710. Through Feb. 11.)