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WIN OUR LOGO CONTEST!
Hey, troublemakers, Trouble Puppet needs a logo. Got some graphic design savvy? Want your work
shown on the web, at the theater, and on T-shirts and bumper stickers galore? Contest winners will
receive TPTC season passes for two, much TPTC swag emblazoned with our new logo, and our undying
gratitude. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2010. Info: jeanine@troublepuppet.com
THIS MEANS REAL COWS NEXT TIME.
Trouble Puppet has been honored with a Jim Henson Foundation Project Show Grant. This grant
recognizes what Trouble Puppet achieved, with a small Henson Seed Grant, in our fall production of
The Jungle and allows the company to work toward an even bigger and better production in 2011.
THANK YOU to all the troublemakers who contributed to the 2009 Jungle and helped impress the
Henson folks.
A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH OF RABBITS
SVT’s next mainstage show, by Colin Swanson, opens February 12. Trouble Puppet created the play’s
puppets and has been part of the show’s development over the last year. TPTC artistic director Connor
Hopkins will be acting in the show as well as making sure puppets know their lines. Tix available in the
new year.
THE MONSTER LIVES!
Look for September/October dates for Trouble Puppet’s upcoming um . . . revivification of one of our
most successful mainstage shows, Frankenstein.
DON’T THROW OUT THAT LAVA LAMP.
Massive community GARAGE SALE May 1, 2010, in SVT’s parking lot. Save your divine junk! Donate it
to us, or rent your own table (cheap!) at the sale. Info: kathryn@troublepuppet.com
WISHLIST
Trouble Puppet’s stocking is in danger of coming up just ashes and switches this Christmas. Can you
donate any of these? Info: jeanine@troublepuppet.com
* Brother MFC 420 ink cartridges
* Graphic design services
* A sewing machine
* Gift cards to Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, or Jerry’s Artarama
* Beer
* A ream of printer paper
* A printer/scanner/copier
CLICK TO DONATE
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OTHER NEWS
Trouble Puppet's production The Jungle and Artistic Director Connor Hopkins made three of the four
theater "Best of" 2009 lists in the current Austin Chronicle.
Check it out:
Top 9 Theatre Productions of 2009 That Did Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention (Robert Faires)
7) 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY) Connor Hopkins distilled Upton Sinclair's
novel of immigrants ground up by the meatpacking industry into a sepia-tinted tone poem, made
hauntingly human by puppets of paper and string.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933429
Top 9 Creative Arts, Ah, Things I Was Lucky Enough to Experience This Year (Wayne Alan Brenner)
7) 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY)
Upton Sinclair's 1906 expose of the meatpacking industry was brought to dark, violent life by Connor
Hopkins and his highly professional Trouble Puppet Theater. We can't make the italics bend far enough
for sufficient emphasis here: It was only a workshop production and will return, even stronger, in 2010.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933373
Top 9 Ways to Decorate a Set (Elizabeth Cobbe)
6) CONNOR HOPKINS FOR 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY) Actually, Hopkins
designed the set and the puppets, which is sort of scenery and sort of not, but either way the puppets
made from paper were pretty cool.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933377
Trouble Puppet's production The Jungle and Artistic Director Connor Hopkins made three of the four
theater "Best of" 2009 lists in the current Austin Chronicle.
Check it out:
Top 9 Theatre Productions of 2009 That Did Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention (Robert Faires)
7) 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY) Connor Hopkins distilled Upton Sinclair's
novel of immigrants ground up by the meatpacking industry into a sepia-tinted tone poem, made
hauntingly human by puppets of paper and string.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933429
Top 9 Creative Arts, Ah, Things I Was Lucky Enough to Experience This Year (Wayne Alan Brenner)
7) 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY)
Upton Sinclair's 1906 expose of the meatpacking industry was brought to dark, violent life by Connor
Hopkins and his highly professional Trouble Puppet Theater. We can't make the italics bend far enough
for sufficient emphasis here: It was only a workshop production and will return, even stronger, in 2010.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933373
Top 9 Ways to Decorate a Set (Elizabeth Cobbe)
6) CONNOR HOPKINS FOR 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY) Actually, Hopkins
designed the set and the puppets, which is sort of scenery and sort of not, but either way the puppets
made from paper were pretty cool.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A933377
Photo by Lettuce Turnip
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| TPT's Artistic Director, Connor Hopkins to design set, puppets and perform in Salvage Vanguard Theatre's upcoming production of -- A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits -- Written by C. Denby Swanson Directed by Jenny Larson Puppetry by Connor Hopkins Music by Graham Reynolds Feb 12th –March 6th Thursday- Saturday @ 8pm Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 E Manor Rd $15 admission ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/96720 In England in 1725, a young woman named Mary Toft chased a rabbit through her fields. She was several weeks pregnant with her third child, and the family was hungry. She hoped to catch the rabbit and cook it, but it got away. Soon after, she went into labor and miscarried a rabbit. Over the course of the next four months Mary Toft gave birth 18 times to rabbits or pieces of rabbits. Two of the three prominent physicians who examined Mary Toft believed that her rabbit pregnancy was scientifically possible. Today, it just might be. And it certainly is in A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH OF RABBITS, where characters live on the edge of the imagined and the real. Mare, a surrogate for her infertile sister Kitty, has just given birth to her first…. Rabbit. There will be 24 additional rabbits after this. How are we made? By whom? Featuring performers: Josh Meyer as the Stork, Robin Grace Thompson, Nitra Gutierrez, Halena Kays, Shaun Patrick Tubbs, Connor Hopkins, and Matt Hislope. Video design by Lee Webster, Set by Connor Hopkins, Lights by Megan Rielly, Sound by Buzz Moran, Costumes by Jessica Gilzow. Contact: jenny@salvagevanguard.org Phone: 512-474-7886 ext 15 |