PACKRAT: The Quest por la Abundancia

PACKRAT: The Quest por la Abundancia a visually crafted puppet-forward play that asks urgent questions about home, belonging, and responsibility at a time of global displacement and climate crisis. Inspired by the Comcáac, an Indigenous people of northern Mexico, the play embraces the language of dreams and the presence of ancestors to help guide us on our journey of taking care of ourselves, our planet and each other. PACKRAT: The Quest for Abundance, presented in English and Spanish, is a seamless blend of puppetry, projections and an original score, a new intercultural co-production rooted in Indigenous knowledge, ecological awareness, and cross-border artistic collaboration.

Concrete Temple Theatre is an internationally acclaimed devised visual-theatre company.
Known for defying conventional boundaries between design and text, CTT creates visually
striking works that bring myth and ritual back to the center of dialogue in order to confront the
prevailing social issues of our times. Since 2004 Concrete Temple Theatre has presented their
work for NYC audiences at such venerable Off-Broadway and avant garde venues as SoHo
Playhouse, Barrow Street Theatre, HERE, Dixon Place, and La MaMa. They have been artists-in-
residence in NYC at The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Mabou Mines, St. Ann’s Warehouse and
chashama. CTT’s national tours include The Yard, Bard Summerscape, Detroit Institute of Arts,
PS21-Chatham, Amphibian Stage Productions, and Pontine Theatre. The company has toured
internationally to London, Sri Lanka, India, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, South Korea,
Mexico, Costa Rica and France. Most recently, CTT premiered Ernie’s Secret Life, January 2024
at Dixon Place, NYC and in June 2024 at the New York State Puppetry Festival, NY with
accessible performances of Ernie’s Secret Life February 2025 at the 14Y Theater, NYC and
Lumberyard, Catskill, NY. PACKRAT was at Taos Center for the Arts, NM, May 2025; Gimcheon
International Family Festival, Chuncheon Puppet Theatre, and Gangdong Arts Center, S. Korea
August 2025, and Festival mondial des théâtres de marionettes, Charleville-Mézières, France,
SEPT 2025 (performing in FR).

PACKRAT: The Quest por la Abundancia was commissioned by Dixon Place, NYC and supported in part by The Jim Henson Foundation, Cheryl Henson Foundation, The Hellen Plummer Foundation, Montello Foundation, Shake on the Lake, The Cherry Arts, NYSCA and NYC-DCA.