Puppetworks March 18, 2018

It is nice to see that Puppetworks, a storefront in Park Slope, is still going strong.  We took our son there 15 years ago and Sunday we went with him, my wife and our six-year-old daughter.  The show is very low-tech and charming, with hand-made marionettes and impressive special effects, including water and fire made from cloth. The show this time was The Magic Flute, which followed the libretto of Mozart's opera and effectively used elements of the score, with adaptation by Nicolas Coppola and direction by Michael Leach.  The show lasted about an hour and was proceeded and followed by comments about the puppets and a demonstration of how they worked.  There was a large of cast of puppets of humans and animals, each with a distinctive voice and personality defined beautifully by how each marionette moved. My daughter was attentive, delighted by this impressive display of the age-old art of puppetry.