Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy
by Ronnie Burkett
Billy Twinkle is a middle-aged
cruise-ship puppeteer who dazzles audiences with his Stars in Miniature
marionette nightclub act. Billy is the best in the business and on top
of the world as he floats along through life… until he is fired by
the cruise line.
Standing at the edge
of the ship, contemplating a watery demise, Billy is called back to
reality when his dead mentor Sid Diamond appears as a handpuppet. Sid
forces Billy to re-enact his life as a puppet show, rekindling the passion
Billy once had for puppets, people, and the dream of a life that sparkles.
For anyone stuck in the
middle—mid-career, mid-love, mid-life—this requiem for a golden
boy shines a little light on the wonder of youth meeting the wisdom
of age.
“A masterpiece. Billy
Twinkle brings us a world-class master at the peak of his powers.”
—The Edmonton Sun
“Burkett’s creation is
a detailed and intricate world that unfolds with almost cinematic vision.
Echoes of Shakespearean tragedy resonate through the work, not only
through the appropriation of the Bard’s text but also through our
hero’s journey… smart, funny, adult contemporary theatre.”
—Australian Stage
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