| Artistic directors Carol
Triffle and Jerry Mouawad, trained in the methods of theater master Jacques
Lecoq with influences from Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Alain Platel
and Trisha Brown, have created a company that is one of the most innovative
theatres in the U.S.
Imago Theatre began in 1979
performing exclusively mask theater in small communities around the Northwest,
and progressed toward creating and staging experimental, original text
works, as well as contemporary adaptations of classics.
Audiences fortunate enough
to have witness Imago’s productions of past years have journeyed to some
exciting, unusual, and fantastic universes. The ensemble’s ingenuity has
manifested itself in numerous stage ‘theatrics’ including a tilting stage
in Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, underground projections in Carol
Triffle’s Buffo, a giant 14’ metallic wheel in Richard Foreman’s
Symphony
of Rats, underwater soliloquies in Triffle’s Oh Lost Weekend,
a matrix puzzle of a set in Jerry Mouawad’s House Taken Over, and
the United States premiere of Caryl Churchill’s A Number.
Imago’s work has been seen
on television and on several continents during extensive tours to Europe,
Asia, and throughout North America. In 2001 Imago’s FROGZ completed
a two-week run on Broadway, and returned to the acclaimed New Victory Theater
for a four-week run in May 2002. Two Imago productions, FROGZ
and No Exit, played in extended runs at the Tony Award-winning American
Repertory Theatre in 2005-2007. In 2003 Imago opened its second mask theater
menagerie Biglittlethings which will tour to China this summer.
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