House Theater : Madness in Minitature April 7, 2011

House Theatre of Chicago presents 'Madness in Miniature,' an hour-long line-up of intimate, lush puppetry performances created and performed by Chicago puppet designer and performer Meredith Miller. Comprised of a series of "interludes" featuring Miller's signature style of "cabaret" puppetry, the show is evocative of the artwork of Edward Gorey--elegant, macabre, understated, and hovering somewhere between Victorian and Art Deco. Miller appears both as herself, and as a puppeteer/manipulator of objects, accompanied by live jazz and ragtime played on a grand piano.