David Powell, Puppetmongers co-Artistic Director, interviewed on the disappearing art of Chinese shadow puppetry.
Continue readingDavid Powell interviewed by CGTN America
Lambe Lambe Puppetry Presentation October 18, 2017
Roberto Sainz de la Peña, from Chile, joined the Puppetry Hive on the evening of October 18 for a potluck supper gathering and gave a presentation on the Lambe, Lambe puppetry tradition and his own artistic practice.
Continue readingLearn to make your own marionettes! November 2017 Workshops Announced.
Learn to make your own marionettes! Toronto School of Puppetry is offering a three day Intermediate Level Marionette workshop November 5th, 12th and 19th!
Continue readingDo you need a small grant to start your puppetry project?
Do you need a small grant to kick-start your project? Puppetmongers is seeking applications from artists currently involved in the development of puppetry projects. Our priorities and areas of interest are:
The development of theatrical work with puppetry,
The integration of puppetry into theatre productions,
The creation of new forms of puppetry and new theatrical uses of puppetry,
The nurturing of new generation and culturally diverse artists.
And now Stratford comes to our studio!
This Fall Keira Loughren and her team of designers and actors were at home in our Toronto studio for a week long workshop of The Komagata Maru Incident, by Sharon Pollock, slated for production at Stratford in mid 2017.
Our job was to create shadow puppets for a Sikh folktale inserted into the play – here are a few pictures of what we made, based on a style of thai shadow puppetry… projected with halogen lamps.
Dragon for Paper Bag Princess
A recent project to built two dragon puppets for the production of Munsch At Play by Tetrault Arts Productions. One full size head and neck on a backpack, with moving eyes and eyelids, twitching antennae, and wagging tongue. And a smaller rod puppet with flapping wings, to fly around stage. It was a great deal of fun!
Continue readingPremier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts nomination!
Well I just found this letter from the Premier of Ontario from 2014, telling us that we were nominated for this lovely award. So I would have to guess that we didn’t actually win in. But nice all the same.
Just found 2 great reviews of last year’s Miller & Wife
Yep, these are from last March at Theatre Passe Mureille. I guess we weren’t out looking for accolades at the time!
Mooney on Theatre and Stage Door
Enjoy!
Puppetry Workshops at Open Door Design
Open Door Design is offering a great range of puppet making workshops this season, as well as running a series of shows. See what’s on in the Open Door Newsletter
News from our Friends, the Artichoke Collective
Here’s a new company with a work in development that we’d recommend checking out!
Artichoke Heart Collective
Our new show Cirqular is selected for the Best of Fringe at the Toronto Centre for the Arts!
Catch it on July 23, 26 or 30 at 7pm!
NNNN “A work of found-object puppetry that constantly surprises“
-Jon Kaplan, Now Magazine
-Jon Kaplan, Now Magazine
“Definitely like nothing I’d ever seen before”
–Mooney on Theatre“A+…I was completely enthralled”
–My Entertainment World
