LANGUAGE
THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS

This walrus is a trash can with yogurt tubs for eyes and turkey basters for teeth! The carpenter is a broom with a flap-lid can for a head! What is language?  What are words and how do they mean things?  With simple colorful props and his own amazingly mutable body, mime, actor, and science fiction author Eliot Fintushel shares and embodies the verse of Lewis Carroll, both narrative and nonsense.  "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter," come to life, as an umbrella becomes the sun, a sword, or a dragon's jaws, and a hand becomes, well--everything.  Other nonsense songs and verse are explored as well.  Here is a visual celebration of some of the mysteries of literature and of language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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