No! No! No!

"No! No! No!" is a conversation about how puppets help us in the fight for freedom. It is an attempt at protest in which, in solidarity with the courageous and loud puppets (who have known how to say "no" for centuries), the actress seeks ways to speak/sound united, to find a common rhythm and voice. 

When you hold a puppet in your hand, you don't speak its words — you speak through it. Puppets can express themselves on our behalf when we ourselves are at a loss for words.

Director Veronika Abdul-Visocka and the creative team were inspired by Peter Shuman and the Bread and Puppet theatre company's giant paper puppets, as well as by Augusto Boal, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Jack Halberstam, who express their belief in the ability of carnivals, masks, and puppets to disrupt authority and hierarchy. Supplementing this with their personal experience, they have created a tribute to all artists, masters, and puppet theater enthusiasts who were unable or unwilling to become part of the dominant narrative, as well as those whose voices can still be heard today in street protests against patriarchal, colonial, and military violence.