Fratellanza to Present New Show STRING UP THE MOON at PuppetART & Jam Handy in Sept.

After last summer's sold-out show The Mute Quire, Fratellanza creates a new production for September 2013. String Up the Moon looks into the human heart and finds two men wrought by desire. A lowly government clerk lusts up the ladder of the Russian civil service. A brilliant musician murders his friend and idol, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and justifies his act on cosmic grounds. These tales meet to form a theatrical sonata of dreams and madness.

Fratellanza's ensemble from across the arts adapts two Russian tales, "The Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol and Aleksandr Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri." Three performers translate the poetry and movement of Gogol and Pushkin. Jazz musician Michael Malis composes an original score. All performed in a playground world created by visual artist Reed Esslinger.

String Up the Moon will premiere at PuppetArt Theatre in Detroit, September 5-8. The show then travels to northern Michigan for outdoor performances September 12-14. Finally, the show returns to Detroit as a unique theatrical component of the 2013 Detroit Design Festival, playing at the historic Jam Handy building on September 20 and 21. Following the performance on Saturday, September 21, as a special Design Festival event, there will be a late-night Russian Tea for audience and artists to talk and drink, as Russian animation streams on the walls.

Tickets are available at www.fratellanzatheater.org.

Thursday-Sunday, September 5-8, 8pm (2pm Sunday) PuppetART
25 E. Grand River, Detroit, MI
Preview September 5

Opening September 6 $15, under-30s $5
Friday-Saturday, September 20-21, 8 pm
Jam Handy (Detroit Design Festival)
2900 E. Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI
September 20: $15, under-30s $5
September 21: Special performance with Russian tea afterparty at the Jam Handy: $25