See it if Incredible work! Havent seen so much creativity, talent, clever staging and a powerful message for a long time.
Don't see it if You dont believe in climate change
See it if you like magic in theatre, movement, or incredibly creative choices, you like to laugh and be wowed and kept at the edge of your seat, wow.
Don't see it if you need dialogue, puppetry annoys you, you are not impressed with tricks, gimmicks or magic, you prefer plot, shows with no words annoy you
See it if You want to be swept away by a Splendiferous show about global warming. Mesmerizing ! .
Don't see it if You don’t Iike puppetry, shows with basically no dialogues and if you are a global warming denier
See it if like puppetry and clowning. yet, has a message (effects of climate change).
Don't see it if hate puppetry. hate small non-verbal shows.
CRITIC'S PICK!:" 'Dimanche' — ingenious, horrifying — suggests an alternative: Sometimes, you just have to laugh."
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"The effects of climate change are dramatized throughout, in melting icebergs and oppressive heat, in tornadoes and hurricanes and flooding...The end result is a piece that challenges us to look at what is happening to our planet, at what we are doing to the natural world, and to ourselves."
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Like the earlier work [about climate change at BAM], “Dimanche” is 75 minutes long, largely wordless, and full of clever stagecraft meticulously executed, integrated with video, using humor and spectacle to comment about climate change. “Dimanche” is more direct about the effects, and thus, although as entertaining as a masterful circus act, more devastating. And it also has some magnificent puppetry!
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