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Massimo Schuster
Mushroom or A Public Confession with a Guaranteed Corpse
February 26, 2001 at 8:00 p.m.
The director and puppeteer Massimo Schuster is a French citizen, but a native of Italy. He started with theatre in Strehler's School of Performing Arts at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. When he was nineteen years, he met Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theatre, and this was the beginning of their long time common adventure, which has included several premiers and the tours all around the United States, Canada and several European countries.
The play Mushroom or A Public Confession with a Guaranteed Corpse by Bulgarian playwright Cvetan Marangozov had its premiere with Massimo Schuster in February 2000. A dying man speaks about the imperious and tyrant régime. Under the accompanyment of the bass and saxophone, Massimo leads the audience to the peculiar stage world inhabited by defenseless puppets. The figures, created by Catalonian Joan Baixas, are not puppets, not bogeys, not models, but they are pieces of memory, rubbish of consciences, marks of powerlessness.
Text:Cvetan Marangozov
Directed by:Massimo Schuster
The plastic and stage design:Joan Baixas
Music:Pierre Fénichel (bass) a Raphael Imbert (saxophones)
The performance is presented under the support of AFAA.<