Sublime Beauty of Hands (Mature Audiences)
A visual poem in a striking puppet theatre piece using masks and puppet techniques that envision the emotional trauma and destructive nature of the land mine.
Faceless and voiceless individuals present a sequence of events obliquely depicting the devastation results of anti-personal devices, or cluster bombs. In describing the piece one should imagine you dream that you lose an arm and it is replaced with a prosthetic. Your dream would very likely replace it with a strange and useless machine at the end of a tube.
So what is sublimely beautiful, the human hand, is replaced with a nonsensical machine, very crude and pathetic by comparison. The utter foolishness that the human hand can be taken for granted is brought into focus.
The piece includes many measures of metaphor and speaks to the inhumanity of war and violence of all kinds. The imagery and music are beautiful as it describes the horrible.
A powerful indictment against the use of a weapon that has a devastating effect on societies all over the world, but especially in Latin America and Africa.
By Michael Montenegra and Jude Mathews.
