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Brother-sister team David and Ann Powell are proving the best community puppet shows are the ones where there are no strings attached.
Coming up to their 50th anniversary, the duo isn’t thinking about how the pandemic has tied up their Leslieville puppeteering business, Puppetmongers Theatre, but rather they are looking to continue their legacy beyond.
“We know a lot of puppeteers around, and what we’re finding is that because of the rent levels of Toronto, space is a big problem,” David Powell said in a March interview.
Puppetmongers has been able to maintain a studio space since they started in 1974, and they plan to find out how to bequeath a puppetry space, with all the tools of the trade, for fellow puppeteers to perform shows and hone their craft.
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