PUTNEY — Sandglass Theater's Winter Sunshine series continues the 12th season of puppet shows with Milo the Magnificent by puppeteering duo Alex & Olmsted on Saturday, March 2, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Milo the Magnificent is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. Using stunningly innovative puppetry, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks that don't always go as planned.
According to a news release, Alex & Olmsted “unmask the tricks of magic, revealing the true magic of communal play and the potential of shared joy.”
“Milo is a bit of a cardboard character, but you can't blame him for that,” Laurel Graeber wrote in The New York Times. “He's a puppet: specifically, a huge cutout fellow, whose arms, hands, and feet belong to one of his creators, and whose changing facial expressions are recorded on flippable circular cards.
“The duo Alex & Olmsted - Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas - invented his world, which includes other puppets made of cleverly repurposed materials. While Milo's tricks and experiments rarely work out as planned, children will still find them magical.”
Alex & Olmsted have been making puppets together since 2010. In recent years, they have performed at the international Puppet Festival Chuncheon in South Korea, the Festival de Casteliers in Montréal, Symphony Space and LaMaMa in New York City, The Puppeteers of America Festival, and two National Puppet Slams.