Mesmerising, hilarious, heart-rending... Cornwall's Cube Theatre return to Dorchester Arts on March 25th with their wonderful new play Gepetto and the story of a man's obsessive search for his puppet boy.
In New York’s lower east side, in the middle of the 1950’s a teenage girl answers a hastily scrawled, grubby advert on a whim. It invites her to audition for the role of puppeteer in a forthcoming production of Pinocchio.
When she enters the shabby flat where the audition is being held, nothing is quite as she was expecting. Least of all the fact that the odd, foreign-accented, ill-at-ease man she finds there calls himself Geppetto (the name of Pinocchio’s father in the original story).
Unwittingly she sets off on a bewildering journey through descending layers of deception and dysfunction, a journey which in its own, bizarre, horrific, comic way, leads them both to the gates of hell.
Geppetto, written by Jon Welch, combines Cube’s trademark electric dialogue with mesmerizing puppetry. Not to be missed!
Tickets £8 / £6 Members & Concessions
Box Office: 01305 266926 or direct from the website www.dorchesterarts.org.uk
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