A performance by Chicago-based theater company Manual Cinema is anything but canned. Part theater and part film, its work unfolds in real time as artists use old-school overhead projectors, puppets, screens, live-feed cameras, sound design and live music to tell a story. As Middlebury College’s Mahaney Arts Center director Liza Sacheli puts it in a press release, “The magic happens right before your eyes.” The Emmy Award-winning collective arrives in Vermont with its multimedia production The End of TV, which explores the Technicolor and dark sides of the American dream. Stick around after the show to meet the company members and check out the equipment.
