Joe Goode Performance Group

“What are the conditions of wonderment? Is it just innocence, belief, an ability to see the simple beauty of the world? Or is it more complicated than that? Luckily there are bountiful examples in my life. It seems that wonderboys and wondergirls are all around me. They are dazzling and wondrous, lit from within, but at the same time fragile, fearful, ill equipped for the real world.”
—Joe Goode

Joe Goode Performance Group presents Wonderboy—a new collaboration with acclaimed puppet designer Basil Twist and original music by eclectic composer/musicians Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. This remarkable collaboration incorporates Twist's magical puppetry into Joe Goode Performance Group's innovative storytelling through dance, text and song.

Wonderboy is an unexpected tale of a peculiar hero isolated by his gift of sensitivity and an intuitive knack that sets him apart from others. He feels small and distant, an outsider with his nose pressed up against the glass, but in truth he has enormous power—to see and perceive and even to heal with his gentle demeanor.

Goode's popular 1996 work Maverick Strain will open the evening in a restaging of excerpts with live music by Beth Custer. A deconstruction of Arthur Miller's screenplay for the film The Misfits, Maverick Strain compliments Wonderboy with its underpinnings of cowboy individualism and outsider identity.

There is lots more information in the Wonderboy Press Release

And here are Wonderboy Reviews.