Mock Turtle – Marionette Theatre

Cambiata Early Music Ensemble Celebrates Spring with All Around the Maypole

Join us at 10AM on Saturday, May 5^th at the Charles Brown IceHouse on Sand Island as Mock Turtle Marionette Theater presents Cambiata’s charming event for the family, All Around the Maypole.  Performing in costume and playing authentic period instruments, Cambiata will present a program of music for Renaissance Spring followed by an audience participation Maypole dance workshop. Cambiata will transport you and your children to another time and place, with songs, dance tunes, and poetry that usher in the Spring.  Selections are from 16^th and 17^th century Europe, and are performed on lute, viols, recorders, and krumhorns.  Cambiata members include: Sara Cox, Ruth Maletz, Ilse Zinnes, and Bill Thatcher.   Joining Cambiata for this performance is soprano vocalist Melissa Walters. The performance will be followed by a special Maypole Dance workshop with guest dance instructor Barbara Pearson.  All ages are welcome. For more information on the music and the workshop, contact Bill Thatcher @ 610 252 3203  or visit http://www.cambiata.org/

Tickets: $7.50 for the show and workshop combination

Contact: Mock Turtle for details, directions and reservations at 610-867-8208 doug@mockturtle.org

This year’s family series has been supported by donations from Just Born, Lehigh County, The Hoch Foundation, The Century Fund and The Lehigh County Arts Council.

The event will be held at 10 AM, May 5^th 2012 at the Charles Brown IceHouse, 56 River Road, Sand Island, Bethlehem.

Shadow Stories with Balinese music at the IceHouse

Join us on Saturday, March 17th at 10 AM at the Charles Brown IceHouse in Bethlehem for Shadow Stories, featuring three shadow puppet plays and live music performed by Gamelan Mekar Sari, an ensemble comprised of Valley devotees of Indonesian music. The program will include the premiere of Mock Turtle’s new shadow play, The Grumpy Gecko, accompanied by Balinese gamelan music played on drums, gongs, cymbals and metalophones.

Also a part of our shadow puppet program will be two of the theater’s most popular shadow productions, Travels to Tondo, a story from Africa, and the Legend of Sung Low, a Chinese shadow tale.  Shadow Stories will be followed by a free workshop/demonstration of the gamelan musical instruments and the shadow puppet theater.

Tickets are $5 for the show and workshop combination.

Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater for details, directions and reservations at 610-867-8208 doug@mockturtle.org and our website at www.mockturtle.org.

The Charles Brown IceHouse is located at 56 River Street, on the Lehigh Canal, Bethlehem.

Puppet-making at the IceHouse!

Join us on Saturday, March 10th at 10 AM at the Charles Brown IceHouse for Tinker, Tailor, Puppet-maker, a show all about making puppets and the excitement of working with your hands.  Featuring a fine cast of marionette characters ranging from rabbits to rock musicians, the play is much more than a story about the craft of making puppets.  It is a pep talk for all children to learn how to make and do things from puppetry to air planes; from baking a cake to kicking a field goal. The show culminates in a puppet-making workshop where everyone gets to make their own fire-breathing dragon puppet!

After our puppet-making session, we will offer scouts a special workshop on puppet performance designed to help scouts earn badges and engage in community service projects. This program, presented in partnership with our regional Boy Scouts of America, is offered at a discount price of $6.00 per scout.  Siblings are welcome at the same rate.  Tickets for the general public are $5 for the show/ $7.50 for the show and workshop combination.

Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater for details, directions and reservations at 610-867-8208/ doug@mockturtle.org

Mock Turtle Marionette Theater presents “Magic Day” at the IceHouse

Join us on Saturday, February 4th at 10 AM as Mock Turtle Marionette Theater presents Magic Day at the Charles Brown IceHouse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Internationally known magician Joe Keppel will present a magic and vaudeville performance followed by a hands-on magic workshop. Keppel’s show entitled, Magic, Mayhem, and Motion, will combine his performance of magic and comedy with lots of audience participation.

Joe Keppel has performed his magic in over 40 countries and 35 states. He works annually in over 100 schools with his educational school assemblies on the subjects of Reading and Geography. Performance artist Bruce Ward will be guest starring with Joe Keppel. Bruce and Joe well recreate some classic Abbott & Costello and Marx Brothers routine as part of their comedy magic schtick. Bruce is well known in the valley as “Clarence the Clown” but will be performing without his makeup for this performance. Besides their regular performances Both Bruce and Joe were members of  the groups “The Pasta Brothers” and “Magic, Mayhem, and Motion”.

Also joining us for this year’s Magic Day, will be Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lehigh Valley.  Come and learn about their programs and meet members of their team!

Tickets: $5 for the show/ $7.50 for the show and workshop combination

Contact Mock Turtle Marionette Theater 610-867-8208 or doug@mockturtle.org

for details, directions and reservations.

Civil War Commemoration: At Home with Abe and Friends

Join Mock Turtle & the Bethlehem Public Library on Saturday October 1 at the Icehouse 10 am to 12 noon

Make your very own Abe Lincoln puppet in the Mock Turtle Workshop

• Play Civil War era children’s games
• Churn REAL butter, grind co ee beans, roll COOL
  fabric bandages, make a Civil War soldier cap
• March in the New Recruits Drill with
  the 88th PA Volunteer Infantry
• Hear great children’s stories