"Paper Cut"

The international figure/puppet theatre festival at Fossekleiva this year has been stunning, at least the four performances I have seen. The last one today, called "Paper Cut", performed by Yael Rasooly who left the stage like this.

"A lonely secretary remains in the office after everyone else has gone home. From her little corner, using photos from old film magazines, she escapes into a world of daydreams. There she is a glamorous movie star from the 1940s and finds her ideal love at last. But as the story unravels, as imagination and reality collide, her romantic tale becomes a Hitchcock nightmare!
This one-woman show reveals the obsessions and dangers of romantic fantasies. The language of black and white is transformed to the “low-tech” universe of paper cut-outs and object theatre, creating a tension that is absurd, painful and humorous."