The show is directed by Dan Rothenberg, who has collaborated with cartoonist/puppeteer Beth Nixon. The show features music by Rosie Langabeer, set and animation by Mimi Lien, lighting by James Clotfelter, and video projection by Josh Higgason. The cast includes Nixon, along with Hinako Arao, David Sweeney, and Alex Torra.
Inspired by a line from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the work centers on a young couple who discovers a completely flat cardboard baby on their stoop. They grow to love the child as their own. Then someone or something takes away the baby to a FlatWorld, a planar landscape populated by characters whimsical, sinister, and flat as pancakes. The couple, both ordinary and round, must enter this two-dimensional world to get their baby back.
For tickets and information, call 858-550-1010 or visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.
