Dream Tale Puppets
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Dream Tale Puppets offers quality original puppetry performances for children & families, alongside theatrical & educational programs for all ages. Our blog posts cover Art, Theatre & Education, Experiences & Influences, Presented Theaters, Reviews, and Workshops.
Dream Tale Puppets
1y ago
This July, Dream Tale Puppets will be performing its newest piece “Alice, or the Red King’s Dream.” Two characters, whose identities are not very clear, bring to life a puppet of a little girl and they set her on the search for her lost kitten. The little girl’s name is Alice. Though she arrived in ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
Maria Nicklin is a graphic designer, illustrator, and art teacher, as well as the founder and director of the SPICES Traveling Peace Troupe, where she guides volunteers through puppetry projects. Maria writes newsletters for the UNIMA-USA, one of 101 national centers of Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Before writing the February 2022 e-newsletter, she sent emails ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
After putting papier-mâché over the head of the puppet, creating the hands and the arms, and painting the puppet, it is time to add the hair, body, and costume. To add the hair, you will need a hot glue gun, protective gloves, and a small piece of cardboard. A small mistake while using a hot ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
Hello participants of the Summer Acting and Puppetry Workshops! This post explains the next steps of building your tabletop puppet. It shows how to paint the head and the hands. Begin with outlining the shape of the eyes. You may use a pencil first, and then when you know the shape, size, and placement ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
This post is for the participants of summer Acting and Puppetry Workshops. Nice to meet you! My name is Jacek (pronounced: yAAt-zehk). I will be your teacher and as we say in theater your director. By now you have received the activity kit, which is a paper bag with materials to build a tabletop puppet ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
Jacek Zuzanski, Falmouth Art Center, Mansfield, Mattapoisett, Mid-Cape, Middleborough, and Carver Public Libraries invite children ages 9 and older to the Summer Acting and Puppetry Workshops. Six groups of participants from six towns will learn the ins and outs of puppet building and performance and will work collaboratively to develop and stage a puppet play ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
The galleries in this post demonstrate a few ways to build a simple tabletop figure puppet. This is not a popular puppetry style; in fact, quite the opposite is true. In Dream Tale Puppets we introduced this type of puppet in our recent show “Alice, or the Red King’s Dream,” and we will continue exploring ..read more
Dream Tale Puppets
2y ago
Part One – Introduction Dream Tale Puppets is offering a free online workshop in acting with puppets for actors from the Greater Boston area, Cape Cod, and areas in between. We will be exploring acting with tabletop and figure puppets, as well as the relationship between live acting and acting with puppets. This will ..read more