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1984 Fraggle Rock

Puppetmongers supplied studio space and resources for the second season of Fraggle Rock

2007 Mr. Magorium’s Puppet Emporium

PUPPETMONGERS SERVED AS THE PUPPETRY DEPARTMENT for the feature film Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. Released for Christmas 2007, it was written and directed by Zack Helm, and starred Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.

Learn 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!

Do 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.

Terror

A site-specific staging of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, in which Roderick Usher entombs his still living sister, Madeline, in the vault of their decaying mansion.

To offset, and interweave with this piece, we chose a scenario suggested by David Ives in his short story, Bolero, which tells the story of a contemporary couple listening to noises in their building, where it also sounds as though a woman is being harmed.

adult shows terror

The Miller and the Miller’s Wife

A poor miller leads his family from rustic poverty to middle class comfort by gently guiding his none too ethical landlord, a gullible, grasping fellow, into simple financial speculations that go way over his head. This play is an adaptation of a classic folk tale known around the world under a multitude of names.

Foolish Tales for Foolish Times

Four classic tales of misadventure, full of venerable folk wisdom from around the world, are retold in a celebration of our shared humanity. Presented in a deceptively simple, low tech style, each story is told using a different style of puppetry, and highlights how we humans can overlook the obvious when we worry needlessly about the impossible, take advice without thinking, or use yesterday’s solutions to solve today’s problems.

Tea at the Palace

Rich in magical surprises and mechanical ingenuity, inventive puppetry and exuberant folk music, Tea at the Palace is a sumptuous retelling of two stories told in old Russia about justice, humanity and compassion. In the first, a peasant finds a samovar in his field, but when he uses it to make tea “just like the Tsar” he is charged with treason. In the second, the Tsar is introduced to a wise and intriguing peasant girl, which scandalizes the courtiers who plot to thwart their friendship. Full of riddles, ritual and humour this play is both relevant and enchanting.

Pirate Widow Cheng

This production, set in early 19th century China, explores the true story of Shih Yang and her rise from prostitution to her command of one of China’s most ruthless pirate combines. We know that she married a gang leader named Cheng I, but how were they able to forge a confederation of pirate fleets that numbered 80,000 strong? When her husband died, how was it that the Widow Cheng was elected the Paramount Admiral of the combined pirate fleet? Was it her charisma that enabled her to transform the pirate’s violent activities to the more lucrative and stable business of protection and extortion?