Austin puppetry

They disbanded, but Connor Hopkins came out of this crew and started performing witty political hand puppet shows in bars. He pulled together a few stagehands and taught them to puppeteer, forming Trouble Puppet Theatre Company in In The Orchid Flotilla , the main puppet character is a male Styrofoam wig head, which is manipulated between the puppeteers knees, such that they are both her knees and his shoulders—if this makes no sense to you, see these pictures on our website.

In our current production, Once There Were Six Seasons , the environment itself is the central character, as the action focuses on communities affected by the shifting landscape of climate change.

Austin audiences like to be presented with new ideas, and to be presented with old ideas wrought in a new way, and they like how puppetry can do both. Glass Half Full and Trouble Puppet both consistently sell out shows, and both make a majority of their income from ticket sales. We also share a common goal of presenting more diverse puppet work on Austin stages. We never left. The increased interest in theatrical productions featuring puppets has not gone unnoticed by the local theater awards committee B.

Interestingly, puppet productions continue to win via popular vote in categories such as Outstanding Production, Direction, Design, and Original Script. Austin companies that traditionally present live-actor theater are starting to incorporate puppets in their shows, and they are collaborating with our small handful of Austin puppeteers to do so. Interested in following this conversation in real time?

Receive email alerting you to new threads and the continuation of current threads. Most Discussed. Most Watched. Essay by. In lieu of a live performance this year — if puppets may not be at risk of the coronavirus, puppeteers and a human audience are — the annual showcase streams online Aug.

The cabaret-style show will stream live on YouTube at 8 p. CST Aug. The show is free though donations are welcome. To watch go to: youtube. Featured are marionette, shadow puppetry, Punch and Judy hand puppets, tabletop puppetry, glove puppetry, hand and rod puppetry, lion dance, and luminescent puppetry from the following artists:.

Sign in. Forgot your password? August 25, August 18, July 21, May 19, May 12, June 9, For years, the entertainment world has been totally consumed by digital imagery. But today, filmmakers are beginning to incorporate puppets, characters that….

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