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Panama Suitcase Show
Special Panamanian Performance Project


Directors Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden along with artists Grian MacGregor, Bart Friedman and Lucinda Knaus have spent a month in Panama on a special performance project. Working at the Casa de Cultura in the Caribbean coast town of Bocas del Toro, the group created two "suitcase shows" based on local themes and then presented these stories in small communities on four of the islands in the Bocas archilelago. One show, "La Casa De Vida (The House of Life)," was about the continuous cycling of nutrients within eco-systems. The other, "El Cayuco Rojo (The Red Dugout Canoe)" told the story of a fisherman and a sea turtle. Following the mini tour in the Bocas region, the group traveled to Panama City to participate in a cultural festival at The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Marine Education Center at Punta Culebra. Finally, the puppeteers traveled to Portobello and presented a show on the steps of the restored Spanish Customs House.

'Audience on Cayo de Agua, indigenous people of the Ngobe-Bugle nation in Panama' — © 2005 Victor Hugo Gomez

'Performing "La Casa de Vida (House of Life)" on Isla Cayo de Agua, Panama' — © 2005 Victor Hugo Gomez

'Performing "La Casa de Vida (House of Life)" on Isla Cayo de Agua, Panama' — © 2005 Victor Hugo Gomez

'"El Cayuco Rojo (the Red Dugout Canoe)," Panama' — © 2005 Victor Hugo Gomez

'Audience on Cayo de Agua, indigenous people of the Ngobe-Bugle nation in Panama' — © 2005 Victor Hugo Gomez

'Grian MacGregor performing her show, "Mi Basura es Tu Basura," Cayo de Agua, Panama' — © 2005 Victor Hugo Gomez


This show was introduced in 2005.
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Artwork by Marlena Marallo Photos by Fred De Van,  Roy Gumpel,  and other photographers Site developed by Mark Bernard