Crabgrass Puppets' Anansi-Spiderman of Africa
| Hours: | 3:00PM (approx. 50 mins) |
| Ages: | Kids |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Performances |
Hilarious African folktales starring Anansi the Spider, Anansi loves to eat and hates to work, so he tries to trick other animals out of their food. But all his schemes leave him hungrier than ever!From Crabgrass Puppets. Anansi is one of the classic trickster characters in world folklore.
These comical African folktales are both entertaining and instructive; because he puts his own desires ahead of the needs of his community, Anansi often ends up exiled to the corner of the room.
Anansi, Spiderman of Africa was awarded the 2000-2001 Citation of Excellence from the American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionette, the highest honor in American puppetry.
About Crabgrass Puppets: Jamie Keithline and Bonny Hall formed Crabgrass Puppet Theatre in San Francisco in 1982 and have delighted audiences across the nation with their whimsical humor and puppetry. Now residents of Halifax, Vermont, they continue to tour throughout the U.S., performing in schools, museums and theaters.
Venues have included the Detroit Institute of Art, the Smithsonian, Paper Mill Playhouse, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and dozens of regional and national puppetry festivals.
In 2001 Jamie and Bonny were honored by their peers when their production Anansi, Spiderman of Africa! was awarded an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence, the highest honor in American puppetry.
This honor was repeated in 2005 with the receipt of a second UNI award for The Bremen Town Musicians. In 2008, Bonny received a Commendation for Design in the Puppet Theatre by the Arlyn Award Foundation for The Day It Snowed Tortillas.
| COST | ↑ top |
$11 Adults • $9 Members/Students/Seniors
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.firehouse.org/L3-shows-family1.html
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Market Square, Newburyport, MA, 01950 map
Phone: 9784627336
Take I-95 to Exit 57 (Newburyport). Take Route 113 east to Green Street.
Turn left on Green Street and follow to the end. Turn right on Merrimac Street. The Firehouse will be on your left (the address: 1 Market Square).
Parking is available in the waterfront lots on either side of the Firehouse.
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- K-3 and families
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