The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker: Theodora Skipitares' puppetry collage about an 18th Century African-American astronomer, a 20th Century bl by Jonathan Mandell

In this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious "  if over-stuffed " hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious subject, as she's done in some 30 plays over the past 40 years. But "The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker" stands out, in two ways. First, it tells the fascinating...

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