THE PUPPETMASTER OF LUDZ
Script by Gilles Segal /Directed by Jeremiah Morris /Puppets by Lisa Aimee Sturz
INMATES at a concentration camp.
(Cast neoprene skulls covered with papier mache.
Bodies are wood and sticks and fabric. marionettes.)
The Puppetmaster of Ludz is the story of an escapee from a concentration camp, Samuel Finkelbaum, who, refusing to believe that the war is over, hides out in a Berlin apartment reliving his horrifying experiences through his puppets.
"Stunning, excellent, life-like puppets"

KALEIDASOPE RADIO MAGAZINE

"Lisa Aimee Sturz's puppet creations and design communicate in detail Finkelbaum's interior hauntings."

DAILY VARIETY

The Puppetmaster, Joe Garcia, with his puppet wife Rochelle.
His real wife was killed with their unborn child in the camps.
His job involved shoveling her body into a pit.
(wood, cloth, rope, Approx.. 5'0")
The puppets, created and designed by Lisa Aimee Sturz, lend color and meaning to the play."
....DRAMA-LOGUE

 

"Lisa Aimee Sturz's puppets create an eerie microcosm of the millions of Jewish dead."
....LOS ANGELES TIMES