The Manual Archives will open in June with Lead Feet and Nothing Upstairs: A History
of the Lifelike. This puppet play tells the tale of the Ditto Sisters, identical
triplets who set off a rash of architectural and perhaps human replication in the
city of Los Angeles. This multi-layered performance, with puppets playing dummies,
pixels resembling puppets, and puppets mimicking people invoking automata, is a
complex exploration of and entertaining indulgence in fakery and the willing
suspension of disbelief, set lovingly in the city unconcerned with the cult of
originality.
Written and Directed by Susan Simpson
