Joe Goode Performance Group presents Wonderboy—a new collaboration with acclaimed puppet designer Basil Twist and original music by eclectic composer/musicians Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. This remarkable collaboration incorporates Twist's magical puppetry into Goode's innovative storytelling through dance, text and song.
Wonderboy is an unexpected tale of a peculiar hero isolated by his gift of sensitivity and an intuitive knack that sets him apart from others. He feels small and distant, an outsider with his nose pressed up against the glass, but in truth he has enormous power—to see and perceive and even to heal with his gentle demeanor.
Goode's popular 1996 work Maverick Strain will open the performance. A deconstruction of Arthur Miller's screenplay for the film The Misfits, Maverick Strain complements Wonderboy with its underpinnings of cowboy individualism and outsider identity.
Joe Goode Performance Group
The Joe Goode Performance Group promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater, as interpreted by the artistic vision and work of Joe Goode. The result is a very physical approach to theater, an intricate blend of language and movement emerging out of the actor's own being.
Basil Twist
Basil Twist is a third generation puppeteer who has continually expanded the realm of puppetry. Twist is the director of The Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE Arts Center and was the underwater puppetry consultant on the third Harry Potter film.