Chicago Puppet Fests presents:
What happens when a girl and her family of homespun creatures suddenly find themselves in need of a new home? They look for help and, luckily, they find it. Featuring The Gottabees’ trademark mix of puppetry, joyously absurd silliness, physical theater, live music and surprising poignancy.
Presented in “daily rep” with Squirrel Stole My Underpants. See one or both!
Dates/Times:
Thursday, January 19
Friday, January 20
Saturday, January 21
Sunday, January 22
All dates at 1pm
Location: Chicago Children’s Theatre, 100 S. Racine Ave.
Cost: $25/$20 students & seniors
Ages: 3 and up (Family Friendly)
Running Time: 40 mins
ADA Accessible? Yes
The Gottabees are a Boston-based ensemble dedicated to creating inspirational, engaging, and empowering theater for family audiences. The company is known internationally for uniting simple-but-elegant visual theater with astonishing technique. The Gottabees apply its interdisciplinary training in music, dance, acrobatics, theater, and design to share original non-verbal stories set to live music that weave together human and puppet characters in surprising ways. thegottabees.com
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The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival advances the art of puppetry by presenting sophisticated programs vital to the cultural life of Chicago. Engaging and inspiring the largest and most diverse audiences for puppetry possible, the Festival is the biggest event dedicated to puppetry in North America and traditionally offers more than 100 activities annually including performances, workshops, artist instensives, free neighborhood events and symposia to audiences up to 14,000 over 11 days each January. The organization is also home to other key initiatives, including the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab, that nurture the development of puppeteers and deepen the field locally, nationally and internationally with the ultimate goal of promoting peace, equality, mutual understanding, and justice locally and globally.
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