UnFolding follows a woman’s, Aya's, journey through memory, imagination, and the passage of time.
Blending puppetry, shadow imagery, and evocative design, the production explores themes of female wisdom and empowerment through a visual language that is both intimate and expansive.
Objects shift, figures emerge and dissolve, and familiar spaces take on unexpected life as her story unfolds.
Unfolding has toured internationally, with performances in four countries.
An original ensemble work in object and shadow theatre
Hidden Stories is a collaborative production created with the students of the Dickinson College Department of Theatre and Dance.
Set in an attic of forgotten objects, the piece follows a group of young friends as they uncover the memories held within the space. Everyday items come to life, revealing fragments of the past and traces of lives once lived.
Blending object theatre, shadow imagery, and movement, the work explores what is left behind, what is remembered, and how ordinary things carry extraordinary stories.
An interdisciplinary performance of shadow, movement, and text.
Nobody Knows But Me is a collaborative work by Margarita Blush and Casey Avaunt, inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper."
Through shadow work and movement, performers inhabit a shifting world between visibility and erasure, tracing the experience of a woman caught between repression and revelation.
The piece explores themes of confinement, mental illness, and the silencing of women’s voices, as identity begins to fracture and reform within an increasingly unstable space.
Ascend is a production of poetic visual theatre that was created during Margarita’s Grant Wood fellowship year at the University of Iowa. The show was created collaboratively by the entire ensemble – performers, director, designers, musicians, and everyone on the creative team who wished to give input. It was born out of our hearts, imaginations, and dreams. It is our gesture of love to the world and humanity.
Ascend breathes and pulsates; it moves the heart, the body, and the soul. It stirs something deep inside of us that cannot be explained, but only felt. It is a cluster of lights and images which allows audiences to create their own constellations. When creating theatre of the imagination, theatre that strives to make the invisible visible, the guiding inspiration is to sweep the audience on a journey and entrust them to engage fully in the artistic experience.
UnInvisible - A one-man performance blending clown, puppetry, and shadow theatre
Uninvisible is a collaborative work by Margarita Blush and Ian Farley that explores themes of identity, memory, and self-discovery.
The piece follows Yelraf, a naïve clown and self-proclaimed hero, as he searches for meaning and recognition. His journey intertwines with the history of the Wereth Eleven, African American soldiers who served in a segregated WWII battalion, bringing past and present into conversation.
Blending humor and vulnerability, the performance weaves personal, familial, and historical narratives into a deeply felt exploration of identity, legacy, and what it means to be seen.
The Crane Wife is a puppet theatre production for all ages, based on the Japanese folk tale, as retold by Odds Bodkin. The show is inspired by Japanese culture and is a fusion of Japanese and Western theatre forms.
Produced, written and directed by Margarita Blush
Performed by Margarita Blush, Robert Blush, Betsy Tobin, Greg Tobo, and David Regan;
Designed by Dimitar Dimitrov;
Puppets hand crafted by Dimitar Dimitrov and Petia Dimitrova;
Music composed and performed by James Hoskins.
Goblin Market
Connecticut Repertory Theatre, 2016
Where Are You Going, Little Horse?
Theatre "Zavesa", Sofia, 2006
River Story
Boulder, CO, 2008
The Ragged Princess
Theatre "Zavesa", Sofia, 2005
