When I Put On Your Glove is a puppetry, dance, and spoken word piece that explores a daughter’s relationship to her father’s work building upon the premise that puppets are containers of memory. In it, a daughter explores what it means for her to slip into her father’s art—and not just the form, but the actual pieces.
It is performed by Shoshona Bass, artistic director of Sandglass Theatre, an award-winning ensemble theatre from Putney, Vermont, specializing in puppetry. Sandglass Theatre is a guest artist residency performance. Bass will also present an associated workshop for the Six O'Clock Series on Monday, March 18.
Translating Memoir Into Performance: This workshop explores the potential of puppets to embody our own stories and the possibilities we have in giving these stories voice. The process looks at song, movement, and the actor/puppet relationship, to explore what makes the puppet a special medium for evoking testimony.
When I Put On Your Glove addresses universal questions of belonging, childhood, fear of loss, death, and the complicated nature of navigating generational artistic legacy. It is about the space in which the voice of the past meets the voice of the present, and is sung into the future.