Tag Archives: puppets

Friday, January 27, 2012

Penny Plain

Ronnie Burkett celebrates 25 years as the master of his own universe (strings attached)

Ronnie Burkett is a skilled manipulator—of puppets that is! His company, the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, celebrates 25 years of theatre magic-making this year with a national and international tour of Penny Plain, a dark and thought provoking drawing room comedy [...]

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

SummerWorks 2011: Exit, Pursued By A Bear

Presented by Quality Slippers Productions
Written and directed by bekky O’Neil
Developed and designed with Keith Del Principe

Presented by Quality Slippers Productions, Exit, Pursued By A Bear is a multidisciplinary puppet play that explores the relationship between humans and bears (and fathers and daughters). The story takes place on the streets of Vancouver, where a young performance [...]

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

SummerWorks 2011: Q&A Quality Slippers

bekky O’Neil: bear in process.

Quality Slippers is a Toronto-based puppet theatre company with a reputation for producing highly artistic and original works. Their new show, Exit, Pursued By A Bear, is on stage now at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the 2011 SummerWorks Theatre Festival. Here, we chat with writer and director [...]

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Next Stage Festival: Eating With Lola

This touching one-woman show is served with love
Sulong Theatre Company
Written and performed by Catherine Hernandez
Directed by Ann Powell (Puppetmongers Theatre) 

Catherine Hernandez in Eating With Lola.

I have always enjoyed asking elderly couples how they met. I love the way their eyes light up and I marvel at their ability to recall the tiniest detail of [...]

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Tea at the Palace

The Puppetmongers maintain a very worthy tradition year after year
Created and performed by Ann Powell and David Powell

L-R: Brother and sister puppeteers David Powell and Ann Powell in Tea at the Palace. Photo courtesy of Puppetmongers Theatre.

The Tarragon Theatre lobby was bursting with energy and filled with buzzing children awaiting the opening of Tea at [...]

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Hard Times — Good Times For Audience

Hard Times brings Charles Dickens’ novel to life in an unexpected and most welcome way
Produced by Puppetmongers in Association with Night Kitchen Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille
Written and Directed by Chris Earle

Ann Powell and Anand Rajaram. Photo by Aviva Armour-Ostroff

Charles Dickens actively campaigned for social reform and fought against social injustice. His tenth novel, Hard Times [...]

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Road Trip Series London — Avenue Q

Cassidy Janson with Kate Monster.

London’s West End is the theatre lover’s promised land. I visited the popular district just over a week ago and finally had the chance to catch a show I’ve been dying to see for a long time. Avenue Q moved across the pond in June 2006 after a very successful four-year [...]

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Toronto Fringe Festival — Kissing Swinburne

Kissing Swinburne
By Mark Huisman and Claire Frances Muir.
Directed by David Talbot.

Poster Art by Zack Boswell.

Kissing Swinburne is a deliciously filthy peek into the imagined sadomasochistic world of Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne. The play depicts a bizarre love triangle between the alcoholic Swinburne, Theodore Watts (his literary agent) and the ghost of Mary Gordon (Swinburne’s first [...]

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