BlueBeardGasLight “3.0” premiered in March 2022, as a belated showing for the 2019-20 cohort of the Object Movement Festival.
This is the link to the longer 17-minute version that was shown at the Center at West Park.
Version 4.0 coming in 2023.
(credits: Written, directed, voiced and puppeteered by Kyra Miller. Set built by Jei Olson. Puppets and set design by Kyra Miller. Creepy buy: Jay Dunn. Music: Yarn/Wire “Molten Trees” by Klaus Lang. Special thanks to Alex Podulke and Brian Gillespie, as well as to curators Rowan Magee, Justin Perkins, and Maiko Kikuchi.)
August, 2020. This is the most recent iteration of BlueBeardGasLight for the Object Movement Festival (2019-2020 cohort).
Written and with puppets made by Kyra Miller. Dollhouse set by Jei Olson. Puppeteering by Kyra Miller and Alex Podulke.
Our Object Movement cohort was meant to perform these shows live, but our festival became an online, filmed version of excerpts of our shows. With very special thanks to Brian Gillespie, who developed this piece with me all year, and to Luke Santy, who was our live tech operator; and to the curators at the Object Movement Festival, Rowan Magee, Maiko Kikuchi and Justin Perkins; and to Zachary Tomlinson.
“If I were not mad….” BlueBeardGasLight, So-Fi Festival June 2019, Westbeth
House by Jei Olson, puppets by Kyra Miller
BlueBeard and Bride, by Kyra Miller. Cart puppet version.
creeping towards the door. September 2019.
But one day the house was quiet…
Blue Beard eyes his new wife
Brian Gillespie eyes Fatima puppet (pre-hair…) in the shoe closet
In the hall of mirrors (with apologies to Orson Welles….). February, 2020.
Bride gets a hairdo
New version in progress — hair to come. Ranevskaya, maybe? #dollshousechekhov
“Oh my childhood, my innocent childhood. Happiness awoke with you every morning, it was just like this, nothing has changed, all, all white blossoms. After the dismal autumn and long frigid winter you are young again, the angels of heaven haven't abandoned you yet. If only I could free my neck, my shoulders, from this stone weighing me down. If only I could forget the past…”
Bluebeard in the forest (puppet by Kyra Miller, photo credit Fiona Small)
Bluebeard and She (puppets by Kyra Miller, photo credit Fiona Small)
practicing in the barn. puppet and set, Kyra Miller; videography Fiona Small