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Paul Zaloom |
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One’s man’s garbage—or rather a nation’s detritus is Paul Zaloom’s puppetry. Comedian, puppeteer and marginal mad man, Zaloom uses the everyday items that end up in America’s largest monuments, its landfills, as characters and objects in his uniquely American stories. A floral-print, plastic table cloth represents a suburban landscape and stack of egg crates stands in for an apartment house. Punch and Jimmy update domestic relationships and domestic violence, and Velvetville, Paul’s tenth solo show, features those oil painting so cherished by those with large sofas against bare walls. Paul Zaloom has made eight European tours, won numerous theatre awards and appears as Beakman on PBS’s educational science show, Beakman’s World. Each summer, since 1971, Paul has returned to his performing roots by rejoining the Bread & Puppet Theatre in Vermont.
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