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Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is the arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman where she has worked since 1999. She moved to Austin from New York City in 1986. Her work has appeared in Architecture, Art Papers, Dwell and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, among other publications. When she is not busy seeing things in Austin, she travels to see even more things.

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Trouble Puppet Theatre forays into ‘The Jungle’

By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin | Thursday, September 17, 2009, 09:08 AM

Trouble Puppet Theater Company unveils a new production of Upton Sinclair’s novel ‘The Jungle’ this weekend.

Puppet master Connor Hopkins offers a new visually-striking riff on Sinclair’s groundbreaking expose of the exploitative early 20th century labor conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry — as well as the horrifying, unsanitary practices involved in food production.

With food contamination issues still making headlines and an historical recession calling into question America’s labor landscape, perhaps the puppets have something to tell us.

Read more about this story here.

‘The Jungle’
8 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 4
Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
$15
www.troublepuppet.com

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