2023-2024 Season

Puppetmongers  Theatre is a TDSB approved educational partner organization. 

Our productions and workshops support students with skill development in literacy, critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration. With innovative puppetry, masterful storytelling and a playful sense of humour, Puppetmongers Theatre has earned an international reputation for creating intelligent and engaging theatre for young audiences, that explores issues of justice and compassion, equity and our shared humanity.

Our Offerings Include:

A World of Puppetry & How to Make Them

Available all school year

  • Customized for grades K to 3; 4 to 6; 7 & 8
  • Audience maximum 100
  • $300 in the GTA, contact us for fees outside the GTA

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The Brick Bros. Circus

Available all school year

  • Grades K to 8
  • Audience maximum 250
  • $650 in the GTA, contact us for fees outside the GTA
  • The video is also available to watch online for free!

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Bed & Breakfast - An End-of-Fall-Term Excursion for School Groups

At the Tarragon Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Avenue, Toronto

  • December 21-23, 2022
  • Grades 1 to 8
  • Audience maximum 80 seats
  • Starts at $10 seat

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Foolish Tales for Foolish Times

Available all school year

  • Grades K to 3 – Audience maximum 250
  • $650 in the GTA, contact us for fees outside the GTA
  • The video is also available to watch online for free!

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See below for a full list of shows we routinely tour out to schools.  Offerings differ annually and not all shows are possible in all spaces. 

Walidad the Grass Cutter 

Performed with delicately carved rod marionettes, delightful visual effects and traditional Persian music, this retelling of a Near-Eastern folk tale is puppet theatre for older audiences. The Puppetmongers introduce a stunningly beautiful world of imaginative experience, based on their own travels in Iran, in this moving tale of a poor grass cutter whose generosity inadvertently draws him and his friend, a travelling merchant, into a world of p
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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. 
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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.
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Brick Bros. Circus

This inventive play delights audiences of all ages, bringing the world of play, creativity and performance to life, brick by brick by brick. Guaranteed to stimulate imaginations and spark creative thinking, the Brick Bros. Circus is a complete, miniature one-ring circus, performed by highly trained building bricks in itty bitty costumes. See the acrobatic Bildovitch Family, the breathtaking Madame Brikaskova, the amazing Brick Contortionist and much much more!
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Cinderella in Muddy York

The much loved story of Cinderella is reset in 1830’s Upper Canada, just as “Muddy” York is to be renamed Toronto, and where the very Canadian Cinderella is expected to cater to every whim of her recently immigrated stepmother and sisters.  True to the classic fairy tale, with a little magic and some imaginative special effects our resourceful girl does get herself to the Ball, and to the satisfying conclusion of the play.
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