At first glance, the stage set for Manual Cinema’s performance of Ada/Ava looks quaint. A small assortment of instruments sit to the right of four overhead projectors, the kind that you’d see in ...

The element of surprise is big for the members of Manual Cinema, whose multimedia shadow-puppet productions—including Ada/Ava, coming to Vancouver next week—do magical new things with an array of ...

3 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 4 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Delightfully gothic, beautiful and emotionally complex, Ada/Ava utilizes special ...

Twin sisters Ada and Ava have grown old together playing chess, having tea, riding their two-seater bicycle, and using the rock-paper-scissors method to decide which of them will tend the beam at the ...

While Manual Cinema’s performance of Ada/Ava may take place in the shadows, director Drew Dir wants you to see it all. Telling the story of two identical twin sisters who have spent their entire lives ...

Shadow puppetry, movement, music and sound will tell a story without words in Manual Cinema’s “Ada/Ava,” being performed Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Miller Center for the Arts as part of Reading Area ...

Manual Cinema mix Shakespeare with Hitchcock and use more than 400 puppets to create a gothic show that’s soaked in melancholia Five artistic directors in a single company might sound like a case of ...

"Ada/Ava" occupies the Shadowlands — in more ways than one. A signature work of Chicago-based Manual Cinema, the short, bleak theater piece, a sort of handmade silent movie, is built on shadow ...