The following post is from our advertiser, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theatre that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.

Playing November 5th and 6th at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Disfarmer, conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin, original music by Dan Moses Schreier and text by Sally Oswald.

DCist readers can enter below to win a pair of tickets to the Friday, November 6th performance. Entries must be received by 4pm Friday, 10/30/09.