Chimpanzee

March 7-May 5

HERE@Home Screening: APR 29 @ 7PM on Facebook Live

“To endow animals with human emotion has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about animals and us.”
– Frans de Waal, primatologist and ethologist

An aging, isolated chimpanzee pieces together the fragments of her childhood in a human family. Bleak reality bleeds to vivid memory in this non-verbal puppet play, based on true events.

Show Program

Show Press

“Nick Lehane’s gorgeous puppet play about an aging, isolated chimpanzee piecing together fragments of her youth with a human family is based on true events. Sometimes bleak, sometimes beautiful, it’s a meticulous, deeply felt nonverbal memory play” – New York Magazine

“For those who are familiar with or new to HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry program, Chimpanzee personifies what they do best: use the inanimate to create reality.” – Stage Biz

“a delightful and superlatively moving account of memories and dreams re-captured in captivity by a primate.” – Berkshire Fine Arts

Watch Nick Lehane's Interview on ABC's Localish

Tickets

Apr 17-23 & Apr 30, May 1-5

Tue-Sat @ 7pm
Sat & Sun @ 2pm
Sun, Apr 21 @ 5pm
Fri, May 3 @ 4pm & 7pm

General Admission: $25
Premium Reserved Admission: $45

Approx. run time: 60 min

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Additional Information

Funding: Chimpanzee is made possible through the generous support of the Jim Henson Foundation and Cheryl Henson. Chimpanzee was the recipient of The 2019 Jim Henson Foundation Residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

Created and Directed by
Nick Lehane
Puppeteers:
Rowan Magee, Andy Manjuck, Emma Wiseman
Lighting Designer:
Marika Kent
Associate Lighting Designer:
Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa
Sound Designer:
Kate Marvin
Associate Sound Designer:
Avery Orvis
Puppet and Scenic Designer:
Nick Lehane
Stage Manager:
Mariah Plante