'Leopard Learns a Lesson' by Magpie Puppets

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Hours:	Hours Vary see below
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Performances

Mama Leopard gets what she wants by frightening smaller animals -- until Rabbit turns the tables on her with the help of her son and the jungle's two largest beasts, Elephant and Rhinoceros.

The audience learns, along with Leopard, that cooperating with friends works better than bullying.

Maggie Whalen performs this story, based on a Malawi folktale, with stunning puppets she built of fabric and paper mache, and with original music by Alison Reid Plante.

Come for the show, stay to make jungle animal puppets and enjoy puppet-play.

Best for ages 4 and up.

Maggie Whalen is the creator of Magpie Puppets, a one-woman puppet theater based in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

She has been creating and performing puppet shows for children since 1969.

In addition to performing, Maggie builds customized puppets for theater and film and has taught puppet-making workshops at schools, community centers, and at Club Med Mini-Clubs in the Caribbean.

She is featured on the PBS Curious George show in the Sock Monkey Opera episode.

Leopard Learns a Lesson is the final show in this season’s Saturdays with Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts.

Margaret Moody started the series seven years ago to add more family puppet fun to long New England winters.

Full schedule: margaretmoodypuppets.com/saturdays-with-puppets/

HOURS

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11am
2pm

COST

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$7; 3 tickets for $20

WEBSITE

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margaretmoodypuppets.com/saturdays-with-puppets/

LOCATION

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41 Foster Street, Arlington MA, Arlington, MA, 02474 map
Phone: (781)643-1228

http://www.acarts.org/#!directions/c24wc

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