Prepare for a wild
adventure beneath a Brazilian treetop canopy, courtesy of toucans,
anacondas, sloths, and more!
Playing January 23-March 4, Rainforest Adventures
is an up-close look at a day in the life of animals living in one of
the most amazing, mysterious places on earth. Explorers of all ages
will experience Brazilian-inspired music as they come face-to-face with
more than 30 exotic plants and animals that inhabit the Amazonian
ecosystem. A mischievous howler monkey leaping from tree to tree, bats beating
their wings in a glorious evening ballet, a keen-eyed harpy eagle
searching for its next meal, and pink river dolphins playfully exploring
the waterways create a vibrant escape to the tropics as the Amazon
Rainforest comes to life!
 Co-written by the Center’s Artistic Director Jon Ludwig,
with Stephanie Kaskel Bogle and Raylynn Hughes, Rainforest Adventures features
numerous puppets performed in a Czech Black style by puppeteers Brian
Harrison, Jake Krakovsky, Emily Marsh, Tim Sweeney, and Anna Claire Walker. As part of the Czech Black tradition, puppeteers dress in black from
head to toe and manipulate puppets in a tight curtain of light in front
of them, ultimately allowing them to disappear behind the light. Hidden
from sight, puppeteers are able to create dazzling, complex movements
of all kinds with the puppets and props, sometimes with three or four
puppeteers working together to execute a single movement. The scenery
as well as all of the puppets were designed and built by the Center, and many of the puppets were built to scale making them the same size
as their counterparts in the wild.
Recommended for ages 4 and up, Rainforest Adventures is
presented in the Mainstage Theater, January 23 – March 4 with
reduced-price previews on January 23 and 24 at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
On Sunday, January 28, Girl Scouts are invited to
participate in a series of activities that will allow them to be
eligible for all four STEM patches in a single day. Scouts will
explore the science of the rainforest ecosystem, technology
behind puppet performances, engineering used to design some of
the puppets in the Worlds
of Puppetry Museum exhibits, and the math skills utilized to
build a puppet in the Create-A-Puppet Workshops™. Activities will
take place from 12 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The Center for Puppetry Arts will continue its
dedication to programming for patrons with ASD on Sunday, February 11, with sensory-friendly modifications to the performance as well as in
the Museum and in the Create-A-Puppet Workshops™. The Center will
also provide a quiet room, social stories, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys for guests who need those resources. For details, visit
http://puppet.org/asd.
Regular show times are as follows:
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Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m. and 11:30 am.
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Saturday: 11 a.m. and 1 pm.
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Sunday: 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Tickets are $9.75
(Members) and
$19.50 (nonmembers). The Family Series All-Inclusive
Tickets include admission to the performance, Worlds of Puppetry
Museum (with the largest collection of Jim Henson puppets and artifacts
in the world as well as a Global Gallery), and the Create-A-Puppet
Workshop™, where guests can make and perform with their own Pink River Dolphin marionette.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.puppet.org or by calling 404.873.3391.
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