Last Saturday at the Forest Theatre in Chapel Hill, a 20-foot Buddha puppet walked through the beyond-sold-out-capacity crowd and didn’t squish a single theatergoer. Paperhand Puppet Intervention performed their four-part puppet-play, "As the Crow Flies," and your correspondent, luckily, was there.
The show opened with. . .

All photos courtesy of Danielle Latman & Michael Habib
( ...a dramatization of the legend of John Henry... )
The show opened with. . .

All photos courtesy of Danielle Latman & Michael Habib
( ...a dramatization of the legend of John Henry... )