An Oakland Performing Arts Collective
Each of the puppet characters in Ship of Fools is inspired by a person or concept characterized by their non adherence to what is considered reasonable, logical or sane. Folly or “un-reason” has had many different manifestations throughout the ages. Rather than portraying what I consider to be illogical or foolish, I have made the [...]
“(The Ship of Fools) had a genuine existence, for they really did exist, these boats that drifted from one town to another with their senseless cargo. An itinerant existence was often the lot of the mad…They were often entrusted to the care of river boatmen” -from Michel Foucault’s History of Madness “Renaissance men developed a [...]
“The vain spectacle, the frivolous sounds and the maelstrom of noise and colour that make up the world is only ever the world of madness, and that must be accepted. This artificiality of the world must be welcomed, and the knowledge that shallowness belongs not only to the spectacle but to the spectator as well, [...]