“Those that create you…are your God.” ERIK: A PLAY ABOUT A PUPPET is a darkly poetic retelling of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera as seen through the iron bars of a cage in a carnival freak-show, where our perceived truths about beauty and ugliness are stretched in a funhouse mirror. With puppets more twisted than a melodrama mustache (and twice as greasy), ERIK points and laughs at the real freak show: us.
CAST SIZE – 5M 3W
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An exceptional reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera with a puppet as its title figure. Riveting, hilarious, gruesome, melodramatic, with some of the best dialogue I’ve ever seen laid down on paper. Incredible storytelling, lavish, with a wide assortment of whacky characters. Highly recommend.
Review Erik: A Play About a Puppet.