FirstWorks Frontier Series: Manual Cinema - Lula del Ray

Taking the performance world by storm, Manual Cinema is one of the hottest tickets at arts festivals around the world. The company transforms our experience of attending the cinema, combining shadow puppetry, theatricality, cinematic techniques, multi-channel sound design and live music to create haunting, immersive stories.

Lula del Ray is a mythic reinvention of the classic coming-of-age story, set in the mid-century American Southwest and inspired by the music of Hank Williams, Roy Orbison and Patsy Cline. A New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” it tells the story of a lonely girl living with her mother on the outskirts of a vast satellite array in the desert. After a chance encounter over the radio, Lula becomes obsessed with a soulful country music duo, inspiring her to run away from home and into a world of danger, deception, and disappointment.