The puppet and the fish. (Front and Center: Chicago).(Redmoon theater company)(Brief Article)

Outside, 12 inches of snow blankets abandoned warehouses near Chicago's Chinatown. But inside--on the vast, unfinished eighth floor of one of those warehouses-a giant marlin and an Old Man struggle for their lives on the sun-splashed waves off Cuba.

No matter that the waves are just performers, slapping the hull of a boat, hung from massive steel struts, that sways to the rhythm of somber sea shanties. Or that the Old Man is a five-foot-tall, crudely hewn wooden puppet. Or that, when the sun finally sets, light bulbs hidden in cigar boxes will reveal a starlit night. This ...

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