The Eulenspiegel (OIL-N-SPEEGEL) Puppets delight audiences with a large repertoire of international folktales and historical fiction, including Sal Fink, Catfish Wrangler, The Amazing Adventures of Willy the Woolly, Stories and Cuentos, Little Red Riding Hood, and many others.
December 5, 2018: In February, Eulenspiegel will add a new puppeteer, Meera Gessner! Meera is an outrageously talented visual artist, a whimsical creator, and an all-around fun person. She will create and perform this summer's Neighborhood Tour shows, be available for library and festival shows, and work as a Teaching Artist. Since September, Stephanie Vallez has acted as Eulenspiegel's Volunteer Coordinator. To give Cara more time for her other pursuits, Stephanie has taken over the Outreach Director duties and is branching out as an adjunct puppeteer. Never fear, Cara remains in the Eulenspiegel family as Artist-in-Residence!
Jan 18, 2019:
Our new show is rescheduled to Saturday, Jan. 26, at 11 AM and 2 PM!
We have a super fun, brand new show available for touring! It's another in our series of regional history shows, this one featuring Johnny Appleseed and other apple heroes! Johnny interacts with animals, wild and domestic, Native Americans, settlers, and of course apple trees. Henderson Luelling leaves his home in Salem, Iowa in the 1850's with wagonloads of growing apple trees, crosses the Rocky Mountains with them, and resettles in Oregon to start the apple industry in the Northwest. Jesse Hiatt nurtures and battles the first Red Delicious apple. All three apple heroes have a field day battling the weather, and Ron Hillis captures it all with his whimsical music.
Eulenspiegel Puppets performs a brand new story about Johnny Appleseed's true adventures and his relationships with the settlers, the Native Americans, and the animals and plants around him. The story goes on to tell about other apple heroes, including Henderson Luelling, who traveled across the US from Iowa, across the Rocky Mountains to Oregon, with a wagon loaded with 300 growing apple...
Listen to Prokofief's beloved music as you watch Peter outsmart the wolf! Eulenspiegel Puppets use beautifully crafted large tabletop puppets and rod puppets to tell this classic tale of a young boy, his grandfather, his pets, and the creatures that live in the meadow and the forest.
Freedom Star: Gertie's Journey on the Underground Railroad uses near lifesize handheld puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, and hand-dyed scenery to tell a dramatic and moving story, based on local history, of a young girl who escapes from a farm in Missouri and makes her way through Iowa on her way to freedom.
Eulenspiegel Puppets performs a delightful tale of the lovable mammoths who roamed the Iowa prairies 10,000 years ago! Follow Willy the young woolly mammoth and his friend Bonny the Bunny as they overcome the dangers of sinkholes and saber tooth tigers. Learn about the Ice Age and the power of friendship.
