Photo by Sally Cohen , courtesy of Sandglass Theater.

Fri March 10 | 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

This workshop takes place at Puppet Showplace Theater, 32 Station Street, Brookline, MA.

Registration

$75; sliding scale $50 & $100
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About the Workshop

This workshop explores how puppetry can be a powerful medium for storytelling, guided by the artists of Sandglass Theater. Participants will be guided through a process of gathering personal testimony, beginning with a story circle exercise developed by John O’Neal of the Free Southern Theater during the civil rights movement. The stories shared will provide the jumping off point for the group to explore the potential of the puppet to embody personal testimony narratives. In addition to examining the actor/puppet relationship by working with Sandglass Theater’s exercise puppets, participants will work with found objects, song, scene-layering, and other techniques and materials to discover the evocative possibilities of storytelling with puppetry. Theater experience is helpful, but not essential.

Open to adults and teens ages 13+

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About the Instructors

Sandglass Theater is a renowned theater company specializing in combining puppets with music, actors, and visual imagery. Since 1982, the company’s productions have toured internationally in over 30 countries, performing in theaters, festivals, and cultural institutions, and winning numerous international prizes. Sandglass is dedicated to the arts of theater and puppetry as a means of exploring contemporary issues, inspiring dialogue, and sparking wonder. We create original ensemble performances and collaborations, present diverse theater artists, produce events that serve our communities, and teach our art.