| TROUBLE PUPPET NEWS |
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.
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
| MARCH 2010 |
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| Trouble Puppet presents Glass Half Full's production of FUP DUCK Plus don't miss Trouble Puppet's Late Night Puppet Cabaret on Friday March 19th at 10 pm Featuring the Bric-a-Brac Band and Trouble Puppet company members Aileen Adler, Heather Eakin, Robert Jacques, Parker Dority and Connor Hopkins. Admission to Cabaret free with purchase of tickets to FUP. Cabaret only, $5 at door. |
Trouble Puppet Theater Company hosts Glass Half Full Theatre, collaborating with The White Ghost Shivers on a
work of American puppet theater.
Trouble Puppet Theater Company launches its Resident Artist Program by hosting Caroline Reck, Artistic Director of
Glass Half Full Theatre. Reck is spending a month training local puppeteers to perform FupDuck, her adaptation of a
novella by Jim Dodge, using puppets she crafted for a performance in Baltimore. In the future, Trouble Puppet will
host other puppet artists from around the country and the world, providing workspace, technical support, and
performers for workshops of new pieces, experimentation with puppet design and performance, and exploration of
ideas.
FupDuck tells the story of Jake, a whiskey-distilling octogenarian who receives custody of his grandson Tiny, who is
as gentle as Jake is cantankerous. The household is rounded out by Fup, an ornery twenty-pound duck whose
singular presence inspires both chaos and heartfelt wisdom. Jim Dodge’s hilarious contemporary fable of
“enormous originality with a giant heart” finds its three-dimensional expression in this production of FupDuck. Witty,
raunchy, and full of transcendent charm, this tale will captivate audience members age twelve to one-hundred-and-
twelve.
FupDuck premiered in Baltimore at the LOF/t Theater in the fall of 2009 with puppeteers from Glass Half Full Theater
and music from the Bald Mountain Bluegrass band. The Baltimore cast will travel to Bulgaria in June to present the
piece at the annual International Theatre Festival in Varna. But for one weekend only, FupDuck will join forces with
the local talent from Trouble Puppet Theater Company and Austin-based musical delight The White Ghost Shivers.
The Glass Half Full Theatre Company was formed in Paris in 2003 by graduates of the prestigious Ecole Lecoq, with
the intention of blending cultural forms to tell universally appealing, visually captivating tales.
The White Ghost Shivers, of Austin, is a seven-piece band consisting of accordion, upright bass, banjo, trumpet,
clarinet, violin, and guitar. The music is “an insane collision of ragtime, jazz, swing, bluegrass, cabaret, and
vaudeville.”
This music theater production features a puppetry style that is an Americanization of the traditional Japanese form
of Bunraku, in which a narrator provides voices for the characters and each puppet is manipulated directly by three
puppeteers. The result is a uniquely American folk form with an original American sound.
work of American puppet theater.
Trouble Puppet Theater Company launches its Resident Artist Program by hosting Caroline Reck, Artistic Director of
Glass Half Full Theatre. Reck is spending a month training local puppeteers to perform FupDuck, her adaptation of a
novella by Jim Dodge, using puppets she crafted for a performance in Baltimore. In the future, Trouble Puppet will
host other puppet artists from around the country and the world, providing workspace, technical support, and
performers for workshops of new pieces, experimentation with puppet design and performance, and exploration of
ideas.
FupDuck tells the story of Jake, a whiskey-distilling octogenarian who receives custody of his grandson Tiny, who is
as gentle as Jake is cantankerous. The household is rounded out by Fup, an ornery twenty-pound duck whose
singular presence inspires both chaos and heartfelt wisdom. Jim Dodge’s hilarious contemporary fable of
“enormous originality with a giant heart” finds its three-dimensional expression in this production of FupDuck. Witty,
raunchy, and full of transcendent charm, this tale will captivate audience members age twelve to one-hundred-and-
twelve.
FupDuck premiered in Baltimore at the LOF/t Theater in the fall of 2009 with puppeteers from Glass Half Full Theater
and music from the Bald Mountain Bluegrass band. The Baltimore cast will travel to Bulgaria in June to present the
piece at the annual International Theatre Festival in Varna. But for one weekend only, FupDuck will join forces with
the local talent from Trouble Puppet Theater Company and Austin-based musical delight The White Ghost Shivers.
The Glass Half Full Theatre Company was formed in Paris in 2003 by graduates of the prestigious Ecole Lecoq, with
the intention of blending cultural forms to tell universally appealing, visually captivating tales.
The White Ghost Shivers, of Austin, is a seven-piece band consisting of accordion, upright bass, banjo, trumpet,
clarinet, violin, and guitar. The music is “an insane collision of ragtime, jazz, swing, bluegrass, cabaret, and
vaudeville.”
This music theater production features a puppetry style that is an Americanization of the traditional Japanese form
of Bunraku, in which a narrator provides voices for the characters and each puppet is manipulated directly by three
puppeteers. The result is a uniquely American folk form with an original American sound.
WHEN:
March 17, 18, 19, 20, @ 8:00 pm
WHAT:
FupDuck is a work of puppet theater, live music,
swearing, drinking and gambling, as well as a
transcendent rumination on death and rebirth. It is
based on the contemporary fable Fup, by Jim Dodge.
WHERE:
Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78721
www.salvagevanguard.org
MAP TO SVT
COST:
$12 general admission, at the door; via
512-573-2540; or online at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102186
March 17, 18, 19, 20, @ 8:00 pm
WHAT:
FupDuck is a work of puppet theater, live music,
swearing, drinking and gambling, as well as a
transcendent rumination on death and rebirth. It is
based on the contemporary fable Fup, by Jim Dodge.
WHERE:
Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78721
www.salvagevanguard.org
MAP TO SVT
COST:
$12 general admission, at the door; via
512-573-2540; or online at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/102186