Packrat 2

Creating Your Own Puppet Play

Puppetry is a contemporary, dynamic way to tell a story and have your voice heard. The workshop will lead participants in the crafting of their own short puppet play over the course of five sessions. The workshop will include the basics of dramatic structure, puppet construction and manipulation. The final session will be a presentation of the play created in the workshop.

This workshop is five sessions long, with a final performance session; the group will meet from 6 – 8pm on the following dates:

thu june 12
tue june 17
thu june 19
tue june 24
thu june 26

On Fri June 27, the final session will be a presentation of work as a curtain opener for PackRat 2 work-in-progress showing at 7:30pm. Registration for the workshop includes free entry to PackRat 2!

About the Company

Concrete Temple Theatre is an internationally acclaimed devised visual-theatre company. Known for defying conventional boundaries between design and text, CTT creates visually striking works that bring myth and ritual back to the center of dialogue in order to confront the prevailing social issues of our times.

Since 2004, Concrete Temple Theatre has presented their work for NYC audiences at such venerable Off-Broadway and avant garde venues as SoHo Playhouse, Barrow Street Theatre, HERE, Dixon Place, and La MaMa. They have been artists-in-residence in NYC at The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Mabou Mines, St. Ann’s Warehouse and chashama. CTT’s national tours include The Yard, Bard Summerscape, Detroit Institute of Arts, PS21-Chatham, Amphibian Stage, and Pontine Theatre.

The company has toured internationally to London, Sri Lanka, India, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, South Korea, Mexico and Costa Rica.