Great Small Works' Sixth International Toy Theatre Festival
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 2, 2003
Closed Jan 25, 2003
Opened Jan 2, 2003
Closed Jan 25, 2003
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HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program presents Great Small Works' Sixth International Toy Theatre Festival, featuring everything from dinosaurs to the three little pigs. This year's festival includes innovative works along with inspiring educational workshops for children and teens by artists from around the world. The festival offers children's matinees as well as Toy Theater Workshops on Saturday, January 10 and 18 from 2pm-5pm. Other highlights include a booksigning from renowned children's book illustrator Brian Selznick on Sunday, January 5 at 4:00pm; a Youth Night on Wednesday, January 15 at 6:30pm; and a Temporary Toy Theater Museum on display from January 2-25. For a full schedule of events, visit www.here.org.
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As you enter the tiny downstairs Dorothy B. Williams Theater at HERE Performance Space, you're handed a pair of binoculars. It's not that you're so far away from the stage, it's that the stages used are quite small. Great Small Works' Sixth International Toy Theater Festival is devoted to performances that breathe new life into an art form that is too often neglected.
The genre arose in 19th-century Europe as a kind of home entertainment based upon popular shows playing in the legitimate theater houses; children and puppet theater aficionados could purchase cardboard sets and cut-out figures and re-enact the shows in their very own living rooms. The practice fell out of favor with the r[...]