Eric Bass' Autumn Portraits

Since its creation in 1980, this celebrated solo performance has won awards in Australia, Hungary and a Citation of Excellence from the Union Internationale de la Marionette.

Autumn Portraits is a compelling evening-long solo puppet-and-mask performance, a series of five interlocking vignettes, each exploring one puppet character and its interplay with its manipulator, who might appear as a masked figure, or simply a voice from the sky. Eric Bass' handcrafted rod puppets are characters in the "autumn" of their existence who act out their stories in precise and evocative gestures as they meet their pasts, their selves, their deaths. In 1999-2000, Autumn Portraits celebrated its 20th anniversary season.

Conceived and Performed by Eric Bass
Directed by Richard Edelman