Dead Pinocchio Theatre features experimental productions

There's theater and then there's Albion College's Dead Pinocchio Theatre. Since 2008 the student-run theater group has been trying something different onstage, the Battle Creek Enquirer reports.

Currently in production is "Frog Belly Rat Bone" the theater's original adaptation of the children's book "The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone," by Timothy Basil Ering.

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The story will be presented as a puppet show, the first one for the group named after a famous puppet; Dudas said "Dead Pinocchio" comes from a New York performance of the tale of the puppet who wished to become a boy, but changed so that Pinocchio is killed at the end, a creative protest to federal budget cuts to the arts.

For more on the theater group's work, read the rest of the story.

Source: Battle Creek Enquirer