Cumulo: a nonverbal puppet piece by Emily Batsford

Culture Lab LIC

Puppet protagonist Plum freefalls through the sky, encountering weather and whimsy along the way.

Culture Lab LIC at The Plaxall Gallery

Culture Lab LIC presents New Works Festival 2025

A festival showcasing Culture Lab LIC's 2025 Emergence Artist in Residence program over four weekends!

Whimsical and violent, this workshop of Cumulo examines how we reclaim autonomy when life sends us into freefall. Protagonist Plum plummets through a skyscape of sentient cotton candy clouds and creatures in a journey of embodied transformation, supported by a cotton candy set embedded with fans and a large-scale mobile of floating cloud islands. Thurs, Nov 13: 7pm doors, 7:30pm curtainFri, Nov 14: 7pm doors, 7:30pm curtainSat, Nov 15: 1:30pm doors, 2pm curtain; 7pm doors, 7:30pm curtainSun, Nov 16: 1:30pm doors, 2pm curtainPerformances run 50 minutes, with no intermission. Co-produced by Concrete Temple Theatre. This workshop run of Cumulo was developed during Culture Lab LIC’s 2025 Emergence Artist Residency. Produced in part with support from a Puppeteers of America Rufus and Margo Rose New Works Grant.