BAM's 2005 Next Wave Festival features 16 theater, dance, music, and multimedia engagements, representing a wide array of dynamic, international contemporary performing arts. Theater highlights include the U.S. premiere of Edward Hall's all-male production of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, a French production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychose, and Tall Horse, a collaboration between South African's Handspring Puppet Company and Mali's Sogolon Puppet Company.