TEST The Bookbinder

— They say you can get lost in a good book, but it's worse to get lost in a bad one...

From award-winning company Trick of the Light Theatre comes a story of boundless enchantment.

An old man sits down to read the tale of an erstwhile bookbinding apprentice. As he speaks the story spills from the pages and into the bindery. The Bookbinder weaves shadowplay, paper art, puppetry, and music into an original dark fairytale in the vein of Coraline and Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell. An inventive one-man performance for curious children and adventurous adults...

• Running time 55 mins

• Represented in North America by Boat Rocker Entertainment

UPCOMING SEASONS

HANOVER, NH, USA

Sat 1 Apr, 2023 – 4pm + 7:30pm
Sun 2 April, 2023 – 1pm + 4pm
Hopkins Center for the Arts
4 East Wheelock Street, Dartmouth College

Premiered February 2014

Arty Bees Bookshop, NZ Fringe,
Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington).