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Photo by Lettuce Turnip
| MAY 2010 |
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TROUBLE PUPPET NEWS |
Two Austin Critic's Table nominations for TP & Connor!
The 2010 Austin Critics' Table nominations have been released, and Trouble Puppet has come away with two nominations. Our Henson Foundation-supported production (see below) of The Jungle has been nominated for Best Production, Drama and Connor Hopkins has been nominated for Best Set Design for both The Jungle and Salvage Vanguard's recent production of A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits. We'd like to congratulate Connor and keep our fingers crossed for the awards ceremony on June 7th.
Trouble Puppet is the Best Of 2009
Trouble Puppet's production The Jungle and Artistic Director Connor Hopkins made three of the four theater "Best of" 2009 lists in the Austin Chronicle.
Check it out:
Top 9 Theatre Productions of 2009 That Did Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention (Robert Faires)
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 towards 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.
The 2010 Austin Critics' Table nominations have been released, and Trouble Puppet has come away with two nominations. Our Henson Foundation-supported production (see below) of The Jungle has been nominated for Best Production, Drama and Connor Hopkins has been nominated for Best Set Design for both The Jungle and Salvage Vanguard's recent production of A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits. We'd like to congratulate Connor and keep our fingers crossed for the awards ceremony on June 7th.
Trouble Puppet is the Best Of 2009
Trouble Puppet's production The Jungle and Artistic Director Connor Hopkins made three of the four theater "Best of" 2009 lists in the 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)Top 9 Creative Arts, Ah, Things I Was Lucky Enough to Experience This Year (Wayne Alan Brenner)
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."
"7) 'THE JUNGLE' (TROUBLE PUPPET THEATER COMPANY)Top 9 Ways to Decorate a Set (Elizabeth Cobbe)
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."
"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.
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 towards 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.