Erik Sanko

Erik Sanko's The Fortune Teller has been extended through December 22nd at the HERE Theater. Show times are Thursday through Tuesday at 8:30pm, with a 4pm matinee every Saturday and Sunday.

The New York Times describes it as "A morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly... the set, a regular wunderkammer, keeps opening up to reveal new sets and images, little Victorian dioramas... macabre and engaging."

"Mr. Sanko's figures are the grim spawn of Edward Gorey and David Lynch, with papier-mache faces more grizzled and world-weary than those of most character actors. 'Very few puppet theaters take advantage of their creepy factor,' Mr. Sanko said... The set underscores why The Fortune Teller is an anomaly in the sphere of marionette theater, or any theater: a level of intricacy most commonly seen in fine art."

You can read the whole article here.