Arm-of-the-Sea’s ‘La Cosecha’ staged at library
The puppet theater group presents the production on Saturday.
Arm-of-the-Sea Theater presents “La Cosecha/The Harvest” on Saturday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Saugerties Public Library, 98 Washington Ave.
The performance will take place on the library’s lawn by Division Street.
The performance is billed as “a magical-realist puppet play about an ‘undocumented’ immigrant farm-worker in the fields of America.” It features more than two dozen mask and puppet characters and Nueva Cancion music of Latin America.
The drama’s protagonist, Cesar, is a young man from Central America who flees gang violence and heads North looking for work.
When he can’t pay the Coyote who has smuggled him across the border, Cesar finds himself tangled in a web of difficulties, fighting for his dignity and very survival.
The production, according to Arm of the Sea’s website, “grew out of a series of workshops Armof-the-Sea conducted with migrant farmworker families.
The show premiered in 2006, with subsequent restagings in 2011 & 2016.” It is presented in Spanish and English. The show is 60 minutes in length and appropriate for ages 10 and up.
Arm-of-the-Sea is a Saugerties-based nonforprofit that combines visual storytelling with live music in contemporary works of mask and puppet theater. Admission is free. For more info visit www.armofthesea.org.