2024

Raj Na Ziemi / Paradise On Earth is a multidimedia eco-feminist puppet ballet. 

The performance incorporates puppetry, drag, gesture, poetry, and live music and singing to deliver a fragmented folktale about the tensions present in modern man’s relationship to nature. 

This production was staged at the Loyola Chapel in Montréal in May of 2024.

Featured performers: Daniel Bayardo, Sarah Barrone, Rae Michelle Cordero, Kai Corrigan, Patrick Dale, Isaac Doughty, Gargoyle Glurg, Catherine Machado, Lex Moh, and Marcela Szwarc

Musicians: Yuecheng Huang, Jane Kasowicz, Fahmid Nibesh, Anya Sylenko

Puppets, Costume Design:
Marcela Szwarc

Writing / Direction: Marcela Szwarc