The Cabinet

Dates: March 3 - July 3, 2005

Location: The Viaduct Theater through May 8; moved to Redmoon Central for extension through July 3, 2005

A spectacle in miniature, The Cabinet sets the story of the murderous Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist slave Cesare in an off-kilter world of puppetry and intricate machinery. Inspired by the 1919 German Expressionist silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cabinet creates a wild, abstracted “cabinet of curiosities” in which five puppeteers manipulate and maneuver the characters and objects much as Caligari controls Cesare’s plight.

“…a wonderful sight to behold.” - Chicago Tribune

“A spellbinding dreamscape, it packs so much visual beauty, engineering skill, imagination, storytelling, emotion and magic into its hypnotic 65 minutes that by its end you wish you could rewind the whole mesmerizing experience and play it again to catch anything you may have missed.” - Chicago Sun-Times

Acknowledgments

Conceived and Directed by Frank Maugeri
Written by Mickle Maher
Music by Mark Messing
YouTube edit by Liviu Pasare