Put 35 years of expertise in puppetry to work for you!
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Put 35 years of expertise in puppetry to work for you! |
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Puppetmongers and the Movies: Recent activities We were the Pupperty Department for the feature film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Written and directed by Zack Helm, and starring Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman; to be released for Christmas 2007. For this major project we: Were concept artists with the design and props departments. We made models and action props. We created, built and oversaw the construction of puppets and related set components. Manipulated puppets on set. Gathered together a team of 12 puppeteers, and orchestrated their availability and activity. Visit their website We created the shadow puppetry images in Laura Taler's dance film Death and the Maiden, did Indonesian shadow theatre scenes for a History Channel special about the Bre X scandal, and numerous other smaller projects. We rented our studio for the filming of the interviews for the second season DVD of Fraggle Rock. We made a music video with Paul Humphrey Sweet. See it below on YouTube |
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Puppetmongers' services in the Arts Community. Play Development: faciltiated Roseneath Theatre in the realization of Rocket and the Queen of Dreams, a shadow play. Play development and puppet building with Shadowland Theatre for The Lost Supper. Designing, building and manipulating the 5' tall puppets for R. Murray Schafer's Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix. Co-producing shows with new-music composers and with other theatre companies. Design and Construction Designed sets and costumes for The Secret of Gabi's Dresser for Theatre Te-Amim. Building a 4' tall puppet for Theatre New Brunswick's Pinoccio. Mask making for dance and theatre companies. Designing and building special effects props for theatres. Rental of lamps, screens, props, musical instruments, world music recordings and puppets. Courses and classes offered to theatre artists through the Toronto School of Puppetry. |
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| We work with the University Community: Recent activities
Workshop-demonstration and then a show, for first year students in the theatre course at the University of Guelph. Assisted the Sheridan College Theatre Department acting and prop students with shadow puppetry for their "Mid Summer Night's Dream". Movement workshops for the Post Graduate Theatre Department at the University of Toronto for their wonderful production of "Mr. Punch the Cuckold". Demonstration of world puppetry and new trends, plus an object puppetry workshop for the ATHE conference. Mask making and toy theatre workshops for teacher candidates at OISE Serving Public Education We give professional development workshops for teachers, We give hands-on workshops for students, grade 1 through OCA The following are some of the subjects available:
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Puppetmongers Theatre, 401 Logan Avenue, suite 219, Toronto, ON M4M 2P2 416-479-3555 or email us |
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