Puppetworks April 8, 2018

On March 20 I wrote about a Puppetworks marionette show; on April 8 we went to the Puppetworks sock puppet performance of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  The place was packed with young children, including our six-year-old daughter Victoria who came with my wife Susan, my son Gideon (now in college) and me.  The show was adapted from the English folk-tale by Robert Southey, adapted for hand puppets by Jack Kaplan and directed by Michael Leach, with the inspired choice of the music by Bernard Herrmann from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry."  The low-tech production was in the Puppetworks small and intimate performance space and more charming than a Punch and Judy show, with plenty of animals and humor, including lots of puns. After the story was told, with  delightful cut-out sets, there was singing, dancing and magic tricks by the puppets.