All of these shows are available to be performed at your School, Library, Festival, Theater or Special Event. Please contact us: (660) 684-6825
THE AMAZING MYSTO'S MAGIC SHOW
The hand-puppet magic extravaganza is performed in a “bag stage”, a puppet stage that the puppeteer actually wears. This adds a new and exciting dimension to the performance.
The stage itself turns, jumps and moves to emphasize the action of the puppets. Fast-paced action and lots of audience participation keep this lively show moving right along.
The Amazing Mysto, with the help of Jojo the monkey, Rover the dog, and a surprise visit from an alligator, performs feats of magic no one would want to repeat. Volunteers selected from the audience are asked to assist Mysto, the puppet magician, in this hilarious blend of puppetry and magic.
Suitable for Family Groups with Children of all ages Show length: varies Maximum Audience size: 200
The hand-puppet magic extravaganza is performed in a “bag stage”, a puppet stage that the puppeteer actually wears. This adds a new and exciting dimension to the performance.
The stage itself turns, jumps and moves to emphasize the action of the puppets. Fast-paced action and lots of audience participation keep this lively show moving right along.
The Amazing Mysto, with the help of Jojo the monkey, Rover the dog, and a surprise visit from an alligator, performs feats of magic no one would want to repeat. Volunteers selected from the audience are asked to assist Mysto, the puppet magician, in this hilarious blend of puppetry and magic.
Suitable for Family Groups with Children of all ages Show length: varies Maximum Audience size: 200
CHICKENS AND PIGS AND BEARS… OH MY!
Everyone has heard the stories of The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen and The Three Pigs. Why have these folk tales lasted for so long? Children enjoy hearing these stories because they are about animals and adventures. Parents and teachers enjoy sharing them because these stories are also about compassion and honesty and responsibility. How do you make an old story new and exciting? Tell it in a different way!
Peter Allen performs THE THREE LITTLE PIGS with marionettes, THE LITTLE RED HEN with shadow puppets and THE THREE BEARS (a version that doesn’t include Goldilocks) with “table top” puppetry and finger puppets. Lively puppet characters, music and lots of audience participation will keep everyone entertained. Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 4th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
Everyone has heard the stories of The Three Bears, The Little Red Hen and The Three Pigs. Why have these folk tales lasted for so long? Children enjoy hearing these stories because they are about animals and adventures. Parents and teachers enjoy sharing them because these stories are also about compassion and honesty and responsibility. How do you make an old story new and exciting? Tell it in a different way!
Peter Allen performs THE THREE LITTLE PIGS with marionettes, THE LITTLE RED HEN with shadow puppets and THE THREE BEARS (a version that doesn’t include Goldilocks) with “table top” puppetry and finger puppets. Lively puppet characters, music and lots of audience participation will keep everyone entertained. Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 4th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
CIRCUS
You’ll have a front row seat to fun when you sit down to watch Parasol Puppets’ CIRCUS.
Puppeteer Peter Allen uses colorful hand puppets to show you all of the thrills of the circus. The Ringmaster will introduce you to all of your favorite circus characters, including a clown, a very timid lion, and Madame Gertrude and her trained snakes. Audience members are encouraged to cheer, applaud and otherwise help the puppet characters to perform their circus acts.
This entertaining show is performed on a handpuppet stage. The stage is 6 feet tall, with the puppets appearing on a proscenium about 4 feet off the ground for clear visibility. This show can be performed at floor level or from an elevated stage.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 40 minutes Maximum Audience Size : 250
You’ll have a front row seat to fun when you sit down to watch Parasol Puppets’ CIRCUS.
Puppeteer Peter Allen uses colorful hand puppets to show you all of the thrills of the circus. The Ringmaster will introduce you to all of your favorite circus characters, including a clown, a very timid lion, and Madame Gertrude and her trained snakes. Audience members are encouraged to cheer, applaud and otherwise help the puppet characters to perform their circus acts.
This entertaining show is performed on a handpuppet stage. The stage is 6 feet tall, with the puppets appearing on a proscenium about 4 feet off the ground for clear visibility. This show can be performed at floor level or from an elevated stage.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 40 minutes Maximum Audience Size : 250
GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
The hand-puppet adventure is performed in a walking or bag stage. While the action is taking place on the puppet stage, puppeteer Peter Allen’s legs and feet are visible as the entire stage walks and moves around the performance area. Fast-paced action and lots of audience participation keep this lively show moving right along.
Our hero, George, discovers that a dragon is destroying the Kingdom, and it wants to eat the Princess for dinner! It is up to George (with the audience’s help) to rescue the Princess and slay the Dragon. George’s quest takes him to the farmlands, the King’s palace, into the Wizard’s cave and even outside the Dragon’s lair. All of these locations are hand-painted onto scenery, which dramatically unrolls as the story unfolds.
This popular show has delighted audiences at outdoor fairs, theaters, puppet festivals, schools and libraries in Hawaii, Washington, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Reviewers enjoyed the “...beautifully constructed puppets...spectacular Dragon...live voices and music” and “audience participation”. This entertaining show is designed for family groups but the “dragon scenes” can be a little intense for toddlers.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 200
The hand-puppet adventure is performed in a walking or bag stage. While the action is taking place on the puppet stage, puppeteer Peter Allen’s legs and feet are visible as the entire stage walks and moves around the performance area. Fast-paced action and lots of audience participation keep this lively show moving right along.
Our hero, George, discovers that a dragon is destroying the Kingdom, and it wants to eat the Princess for dinner! It is up to George (with the audience’s help) to rescue the Princess and slay the Dragon. George’s quest takes him to the farmlands, the King’s palace, into the Wizard’s cave and even outside the Dragon’s lair. All of these locations are hand-painted onto scenery, which dramatically unrolls as the story unfolds.
This popular show has delighted audiences at outdoor fairs, theaters, puppet festivals, schools and libraries in Hawaii, Washington, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Reviewers enjoyed the “...beautifully constructed puppets...spectacular Dragon...live voices and music” and “audience participation”. This entertaining show is designed for family groups but the “dragon scenes” can be a little intense for toddlers.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 200
THE GINGERBREAD MAN ON OLD MACDONALD'S FARM
Old MacDonald has a most unusual farm. On this farm are chickens and ducks and cows and… oh no, a very hungry fox! The story gets even more exciting when the Gingerbread Man races through this pastoral scene. Can anyone catch him?
Audiences enjoy singing along with ukulele and hammered dulcimer music as these two familiar characters collide into an original adventure. Songs include "Old MacDonald had a Farm", "I Had a Little Rooster", "Six Little Ducks" and "Inch by Inch".
Suitable for School Performances for PreSchool through 4th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 40 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
Old MacDonald has a most unusual farm. On this farm are chickens and ducks and cows and… oh no, a very hungry fox! The story gets even more exciting when the Gingerbread Man races through this pastoral scene. Can anyone catch him?
Audiences enjoy singing along with ukulele and hammered dulcimer music as these two familiar characters collide into an original adventure. Songs include "Old MacDonald had a Farm", "I Had a Little Rooster", "Six Little Ducks" and "Inch by Inch".
Suitable for School Performances for PreSchool through 4th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 40 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
LITTLE RED RIDING BUG
Little Red Riding Bug is on her way with a basket of goodies to visit her Granny, who flew a little too close to a bug
light for comfort. But who should Little Red meet on her journey through the grass but the Big, Bad Frog!
A cast of hand puppet bugs, including Dr. Pillbug, Little Red’s Mama, and a collection of critters on their way to a fancy dress bug ball, illustrate a lively tale loosely based on the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Original songs set to vintage honky tonk piano music will make you “buggy” with delight.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups
Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
THE PIED PIPER
Once upon a time there was a little town that had a big problem. RATS!
How can the mayor of the town keep the citizens happy and keep himself rich at the same time? After sending out an international call of distress, the mayor finally employs the ultimate exterminator, The Pied Piper. What happens when the rats are all drowned and the mayor refuses to pay?
Fast paced action, lots of audience participation, cheesy jokes, lots and lots of rats and wonderful scenery keep this lively show scampering along.
The performance of this classic tale (loosely based on the poem by Robert Browning) takes place in an unusual puppet stage that turns to present all of the wonderful places the story takes us. The action takes place in, on, around and above the unique performance space. Live voices, music and sound effects add to the excitement of this unique piece of theatre art. This entertaining show is designed for family groups.
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
Once upon a time there was a little town that had a big problem. RATS!
How can the mayor of the town keep the citizens happy and keep himself rich at the same time? After sending out an international call of distress, the mayor finally employs the ultimate exterminator, The Pied Piper. What happens when the rats are all drowned and the mayor refuses to pay?
Fast paced action, lots of audience participation, cheesy jokes, lots and lots of rats and wonderful scenery keep this lively show scampering along.
The performance of this classic tale (loosely based on the poem by Robert Browning) takes place in an unusual puppet stage that turns to present all of the wonderful places the story takes us. The action takes place in, on, around and above the unique performance space. Live voices, music and sound effects add to the excitement of this unique piece of theatre art. This entertaining show is designed for family groups.
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
These gentle puppets “tickle” the imagination of the audience as they sew a friend, meet a dragon and dig for treasure.
PUPPETRY PURE AND SIMPLE This unusual show is a delightful introduction to the world of puppetry.
Puppeteer Peter Allen shows his audience how to make simple puppets out of everyday materials such as plastic bottles and cardboard tubes. He then makes his new characters come alive on stage through a series of pantomimed skits.
Educational and entertaining, this show will inspire family audiences to explore the fun of making and using puppets.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
PUPPETRY PURE AND SIMPLE This unusual show is a delightful introduction to the world of puppetry.
Puppeteer Peter Allen shows his audience how to make simple puppets out of everyday materials such as plastic bottles and cardboard tubes. He then makes his new characters come alive on stage through a series of pantomimed skits.
Educational and entertaining, this show will inspire family audiences to explore the fun of making and using puppets.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 45 minutes Maximum Audience size: 250
THE SINGING TURTLE
In this unique interpretation of a Japanese folk tale, a young boy and his family find happiness and good fortune with the help of a talented turtle. Every day the boy must sell firewood in the village to support his family. His mother is always busy cleaning and worrying while his lazy older brother just likes to sleep and eat. One day the younger brother meets a turtle who can sing. Even though he shares his good fortune with his family, his older brother wants the turtle for himself. Can this story have a happy ending?
Puppeteer Peter Allen performs THE SINGING TURTLE with hand-puppets in a traditional proscenium puppet stage. The curtains open and close on hand-painted scenes of a small village in Japan. Koto music and kimonos provide a Japanese flavor to this lively tale. The puppet stage is equipped with lights and sound system. Musical accompaniment is pre-recorded, but the puppet voices are always performed live to ensure active communication with the audience.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 40 minutes
Maximum Audience size: 250
In this unique interpretation of a Japanese folk tale, a young boy and his family find happiness and good fortune with the help of a talented turtle. Every day the boy must sell firewood in the village to support his family. His mother is always busy cleaning and worrying while his lazy older brother just likes to sleep and eat. One day the younger brother meets a turtle who can sing. Even though he shares his good fortune with his family, his older brother wants the turtle for himself. Can this story have a happy ending?
Puppeteer Peter Allen performs THE SINGING TURTLE with hand-puppets in a traditional proscenium puppet stage. The curtains open and close on hand-painted scenes of a small village in Japan. Koto music and kimonos provide a Japanese flavor to this lively tale. The puppet stage is equipped with lights and sound system. Musical accompaniment is pre-recorded, but the puppet voices are always performed live to ensure active communication with the audience.
Suitable for School performances for Kindergarten through 6th Grade
Perfect for Family Groups Show length: 40 minutes
Maximum Audience size: 250