In-Person Performances for Schools

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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