Basil Twist: The Alchemy of Puppetry

Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Open to the public. Free of charge. Basil Twist is a visionary, third-generation puppeteer whose work has reshaped contemporary puppetry worldwide. A San Francisco native and the only American graduate of France’s École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette, he gained national attention with The Araneidae Show and the ground-breaking multiple award-winning Symphonie Fantastique, which revealed him as a singular artist of unlimited imagination. His inventive, genre-defying productions — from Petrushka and Dogugaeshi to Arias with a Twist (co-created with nightlife icon Joey Arias) — have toured internationally.