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By Stephanie Merry Saturday, July 21, 2012 Entering the Warehouses black box theater for Planet Egg feels like venturing into a mad scientists laboratory. On either side of a large projector, audience members are met with two tables scattered with debris -- cans and tubes and bowls of unidentifiable yellow liquid. These items are the fuel that powers this inventive, nutty and wonderinspiring production.
Puppet Cinema is the New York-based group behind the genre-defying spectacle, and three of its members remain onstage during the course of the show: puppeteers Zvi Sahar and Justin Perkins and sound designer Ien DeNio. As the lights go down, the trio gets to work, creating miniature scenes on a rotating set, which are projected onto the screen above. The story kicks off with a crash landing, when a robot finds itself stranded on Planet Egg, which is populated by veggie-beings. Searching for food, the robot has chance encounters with a somewhat lethargic green onion and little mushrooms that hop around squeaking the shows lone intelligible word (Shroom!). What unfolds is a story that, amazingly, promises ad-ven-ture, suspense, even a dose of romance. All this is set to DeNios marvelous low-tech sound work, which replicates the noises of a flying saucer, the non-start of a faulty engine and gloopy sloshing when one character tries to free itself from a puddle of egg yolk. As movie budgets get ever more bloated and 3-D and IMAX films become increasingly widespread, its heartening to see what can be accomplished without all the bells and whistles. It turns out, all you really need is a little bit of produce and a lot of imagination.