Coming in October 2009
:
IS BACK!
Coming in October 2009:
IS BACK!
From Haiku to HipHop – Puppets Do Poetry
We are excited to explore the marriage of two art forms we love dearly: puppetry and poetry. From Haiku to HipHop will use puppetry to explore different poetry traditions and will introduce school-age children and their families to some of our favorite poems. The show will use rod, hand, tabletop and shadow puppets, as well as human actors. Poets represented include Jack Prelutsky (the first US Poet Laureate for Children), Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, David McCord, A.A. Milne, and Langston Hughes. Thrill to the flight of Jack Prelutsky's "Fearless Flying Hotdogs!" Watch a bunch of spinach chase a child who is terrified of vegetables! Meet the Green Goblin who only wants someone to play with! From Haiku to HipHop will open on April 1, 2010, just in time for National Poetry Month!
Crabgrass will be travelling from Vermont to Atlanta to Canada in the next few months. Our summer schedule begins with a performance in Washington, New Jersey. From there we go to the Puppeteers of America International Festival in Atlanta, where we are featured performers; we are also teaching two workshops at the festival for fellow puppeteers. When we get back from Hotlanta we will be at the Springfield Museum in Massachusetts and at two libraries in the Poughkeepsie area. August will find us returning to two of our favorite venues in New England, Theater by the Sea and Ivoryton Playhouse. In New Jersey, we'll be performing for the Avalon Recreation Department and at the Louis Bay Library in Hawthorne. We end August with a return to the Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline Village, Massachusetts. In September we'll be performing for the Bloomfield, CT recreation department and at Dutchess College in Poughkeepsie. We will also be travelling to Canada for the Brockville Storytelling Festival. Please see our complete list of upcoming public performances for more information.
Jamie Keithline and Bonny Hall formed Crabgrass Puppet Theatre in San Francisco in 1982 and have delighted audiences across the nation with their whimsical humor and puppetry. Now residents of Halifax, Vermont, they continue to tour throughout the U.S., performing in schools, museums and theaters. Their performing venues have included the Detroit Institute of Art, the Smithsonian, Paper Mill Playhouse, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and dozens of regional and national puppetry festivals. In 2001 Jamie and Bonny were honored by their peers when their production Anansi, Spiderman of Africa! was awarded an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence, the highest honor in American puppetry. This honor was repeated in 2005 with the receipt of a second UNI award for The Bremen Town Musicians. In 2008, Bonny received a Commendation for Design in the Puppet Theatre by the Arlyn Award Foundation for The Day It Snowed Tortillas.
