MINE
Created by Shayna Strype
Presented by Dixon Place
A mountain, mined of her insides, collapses into rubble. Near the wreckage, a marriage ends and the home grieves the loss of the family it once housed. Underground, a groundhog hoards an enormous collection of the family’s discarded sentimental items. As the Rubble, the Home, and the Groundhog attempt to reassemble the remnants of their crumbled histories, their worlds begin to merge and intertwine.
MINE uses a variety of puppetry styles, live-feed projections, stop-motion animation, wearable sculptures, and humor to weave together themes of nostalgia, excess, and the destructive human urge to colonize land, bodies, and minds.
Livestream – Available April 21, 22, 23, and 24
On-Demand – Available April 26 – May 3
Tiers and Pricing
Students/Seniors – $12
Puppetlover – $18
Benefactors/Multiviewers – $34
4-Show Package – $42
Bundle up! Pick and choose between our 4 spring productions (MINE, NEW MONY!, Unicorn Afterlife, and Bill’s 44th). You can also mix and match between ticket tiers, livestream, on-demand, and in-person performances.
Note: You are only limited to one ticket per show. Refer to the dates in the ticketing section when picking your shows.
Director/Performer: Shayna Strype
Producer: Ruth Lichtman
Stage Manager: Caren Celine Morris
Production Designer: Nehprii Amenii
Projection Designer: Britt Mosely
Lighting Designer: Paige Seber
Live Feed Camera Operator: Desiree Mitton
Composer: Jordan Parker
Shayna Strype (she/her) is a theater, film, and puppetry artist based in Brooklyn. Her latest film, Our Mine, was commissioned by Heather Henson and Handmade Puppet Dreams. Her short film Pink Fluffy Hope was awarded Best NY Film in the LA Puppetry Guild’s 48 hour Film Festival in 2020. In 2019, she was Director of Puppetry for Pig Iron Theater Company and Mimi Lien’s Superterranean. Shayna was an Artist in Residence at the Object Movement Puppetry Festival in 2018 where she created a multimedia puppetry piece called Antrak. She has an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College.
For more on Shayna, visit http://shaynastrype.com/ , follow her on Instagram @woosieparty , or check her out on Facebook here .
This Dixon Place Commissioned Production is made possible with private support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Cheryl Henson & the Jim Henson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Scherman Foundation, and Shubert Foundation; public funds from the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs w/the City Council, and the NY State Council on the Arts w/the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo & the NY State Legislature; and generous donors like you!
