Animal April
Series of puppet shows featuring your favorite creatures!
UP NEXT: "Turtle's New Home"
by Deborah Costine, Puppeteer!
Thurs & Fri, April 3 & 4 at 10:30am
Sat & Sun, April 5 & 6 at 1 & 3pm
Join us this Spring at Puppet Showplace for a series of puppet shows featuring your favorite animal characters. Adventure with animals from Galapagos Island, journey into the forest with a trickster raccoon from Native American stories, or travel to the jungles of africa to meet your favorite Spider Anansi and his friends. First in the series is an original story by local puppeteer Deborah Costine about animals native to New England. VIEW FULL CALENDAR
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| "Turtle's New Home" by Deborah Costine, Puppeteer! |
About the show:
New England animals are the stars of this charming story about friends in a wetland habitat. The little pond where Blanding the turtle has lived for many years is no longer safe because a road has been built between there and the place she goes to lay her eggs. When she meets young Castor the Beaver, who is eager to build a dam, she sees that her problems might be solved! Along the way, we also meet a young boy and his nature-loving babysitter who learn together how to look closely at nature.
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| "Turtle's New Home" by Deborah Costine, Puppeteer! |
About the performer:
Debbie is an artist, naturalist and National award-winning puppeteer whose mission is to inspire the love of nature in children. She co-founded The Gerwick Puppets in 1974 and, with Len Gerwick, designed, and built 14 productions during which time she created over 200 puppet characters and presented over 5,000 performances throughout New England.
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| Deborah Costine, Puppeteer and the cast of her UNIMA award-winning show, "A Woodland Cinderella" |
Eventually Debbie formed her own solo company -and produced shows appropriate for ages 3 and up, Including “The Three Pigs and Other Tales, “The Twig Family in the Oak Tree” and “A Woodland Cinderella.” “Turtle’s New Home” is the newest production and received funding from the Jim Henson Foundation. It is an endearing story about friendship, habitat needs and “puppet” children learning how to look closely at nature. www.deborahcostinenaturepuppets.com
