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Kevin Augustine’s Lone Wolf Tribe wowed audiences at NACL in 2015 with the otherworldly puppetry of The God Projekt. Now working on a new performance that will premiere this November at La Mama — Kevin returns with The People Vs Nature.
The People Vs Nature presents a challenging story about personal liberty and predatory behavior. Creator and puppeteer Kevin Augustine creates a theatrical experiment in empathy by daring the audience to become his co-puppeteers on stage.
With only hours left to live, a death row inmate reenacts a courtroom trial where he once tried to save someone else's life: a medical lab chimpanzee. Hoping for his own last-minute pardon, he claims not only to have taught the chimp English (better a jury hear from a monkey in its own words) but also that he's innocent of his 1st-degree murder conviction.
“In the church of puppet artistry, Augustine is divine”
About the Artist
Lone Wolf Tribe is a New York based puppet company led by director/creator Kevin Augustine. With a mission to Investigate, Challenge & Spellbind, they use simple magic and poetic brutality to create gutsy, original theatre about our collective human story.
As the eponymous lone wolf, Augustine devotes years to create each new show – writing, directing and performing alongside his sculpted tribe of foam-rubber puppets. Combining history & philosophy with life-sized puppetry since 1997, LWT unabashedly embraces art as a societal lifeline to possibility.
Photo by Richard Termine