When Andrew Dawson brings his one-man show to the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater on Saturday, he wants theatergoers to know that they'll be in excellent hands. In more ways than one.
"I do have very nice hands, it seems," says the 47-year-old Brit, creator and performer behind "Space Panorama," a theatrical retelling of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing -- along with what Dawson calls a "pocket history of space exploration" -- that uses little other than his two hands. While sitting at a table wearing all black, Dawson will use his hands (and, from time to time, his upper body) to portray not only the lunar module and the astronauts inside, but the following: The bus that ferried the astronauts across the launching pad.
The Saturn V rocket that sent them into space, complete with plume of white smoke. Various switches, dials and fuel indicators in the capsule. Weightless shaving cream. The moon itself. The parachute that brought the capsule to splashdown. The helicopter that picked the astronauts up. Even the flukes of a passing whale's tale.
"I do have very nice hands, it seems," says the 47-year-old Brit, creator and performer behind "Space Panorama," a theatrical retelling of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing -- along with what Dawson calls a "pocket history of space exploration" -- that uses little other than his two hands. While sitting at a table wearing all black, Dawson will use his hands (and, from time to time, his upper body) to portray not only the lunar module and the astronauts inside, but the following: The bus that ferried the astronauts across the launching pad.
The Saturn V rocket that sent them into space, complete with plume of white smoke. Various switches, dials and fuel indicators in the capsule. Weightless shaving cream. The moon itself. The parachute that brought the capsule to splashdown. The helicopter that picked the astronauts up. Even the flukes of a passing whale's tale.
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