Benefit Showing of Sita Sings the Blues for Magic Lantern Puppet Theater

Reid Knuttila with puppet George, and Patti Gage with puppet Hester

Sita Sings the Blues

• Thursday, May 12, 2011
• Trylon Microcinema, 3258 Minnehaha Ave. S, Minneapolis

Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate this beautifully animated interpretation of the Ramayana. Set to 1920’s jazz vocals, Sita Sings the Blues is “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.” Animation by Nina Paley. Length 82 minutes.

All proceeds benefit Magic Lantern Puppet Theater’s upcoming production, Children and Other Optical Illusions at Open Eye Figure Theater.