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Hobbit: Bunraku style By KAREN BOSSICK
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These troll heads, which will appear in ‘The Hobbit’, are thrice the size of Photo: KAREN BOSSICK/TWP a man’s head.
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At a Glance What: “The Hobbit� When: Friday through Sunday, April 2 through 4 and April 9 through 11. 7 p.m. Fridays, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturdays, and 3 p.m. Sundays Where: nexStage Theatre, 120 S. Main St. in Ketchum Tickets: $20 for adults and $10 for children, available by calling 208-726-4TKS
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ou’re being asked to take an adventure—an adventure into a fantastical world of trolls and dragons—as nexStage Theatre Productions presents the beloved children’s classic, “The Hobbit.� The production, which starts Friday, will include a combination of human actors, largerthan-life masks, and giant rod puppets and wooden body puppets based on the Bunraku style of puppetry from Japan. “This is not a story of someone going to the grocery store in a world we understand. It’s a world of trolls and dragons set
in a magical Middle Earth,� said director Bruce Hostetler. “We’re creating a journey without leaving the room in which we start. We’re not trying to convince people that the dragon in our play is real. We’re asking audiences to meet us halfway.� The nexStage Theatre seized the opportunity to produce the play after Hostetler, who directs the annual Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, showed directors pictures of the production he’d done with Northwest Children’s Theater and School in Portland, Ore. “The Hobbit� fit with the theater’s new mission to offer a children’s play, an adult play,
The Hemingway Chapter of Trout Unlimited features Charles Conn as its April speaker, 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 1 at The Roosevelt Grille in Ketchum, speaking about fishing the waters of Brazil. The Amazon peacock bass is, pound for pound, the hardest hitting and fighting freshwater game fish on earth. Their topwater, lure-smashing strikes have become legendary in the angling community and thousands of fishermen travel each year to challenge this exciting game fish. Our speaker, Charles Conn, is active in the Ketchum community, a senior advisor to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation and a private investor. He is a national board member of Trout Unlimited. For more information, call 788-3618.
Fur Ball sells out
Steve Miller and the Accelerators will perform at the Fur Ball this Friday at 8 p.m. The Fur Ball benefits The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley. If you miss this event, there are still tickets available for Saturday night’s performance, which benefits the Snake River Alliance. PHOTO: KAREN BOSSICK/TWP
Read about it on page 15
inside: NORDIC SEASON ENDS, PG4 | HITCHCOCK FILMS, PG 8 | IT’S HOLY WEEK, PG 14