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Puppets Protest Climate Change in Paperhand’s Courageous The Beautiful Beast

THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST Through Sept. 5 (Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill) Sept. 9–11 (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh) www.paperhand.org The unvarnished, unaccompanied vocals in The Beautiful Beast‘s mid-show chorus seem lifted from the Sacred Harp spiritual tradition of the nineteenth century, but the haunting lyrics admonish us about modern-day maladies such as climate change and […]