Local Schedule Summer 2020
Enjoy high quality puppet theatre in a small town atmosphere with Iowa's only professional puppet company!
SUMMER 2020
During this unusual summer, your friends at Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre have planned an entirely different type of season! We've made friends with the idea of online workshops and shows and are doing our best to approach these with the utmost creativity. We invite you to exercise your creativity by joining us!
The summer schedule includes classes and workshops for all ages, live streamed shows including a new pop-up book show, and hopefully, before summer's end, a brand new Drive-In puppet show!
Summer Neighborhood Tour 2020!
Thanks to support from HNI, ACT, Green State Credit Union, and many generous friends donating to the Teri Jean Breitbach Memorial Fund, we are once again bringing puppet shows to the area. Instead of the show we had originally planned, we are offering our new Drive-In Puppet Show to avoid the problems of distancing.
Shadow Puppet Class
Summer Puppet Class!
Create a story, puppets, and a stage! Sponsored by the Muscatine Art Center!
Join the Eulenspiegel puppeteers in creating a brand new shadow puppet show about the animals around us and the crazy things they’re up to while we stay in! Write the story together, make the puppets and staging, and perform and record the show over Zoom! Kids...
Age group: school age kids and adults
Summer Performance Series
This summer we present a series of shows available to viewers all over the world! Shows will be live streamed the last Sunday of June (June 28), July (July 26) and August (August 30) at 2:00 PM Central Daylight Time.
Age group: 3-93
In the Mirror: Three Tales From Asia
In the Mirror: Three Tales From Asia is a collection of three folk tales from different countries in Asia. The tales are tied together by two themes: the wisdom of old age and the power of clever females. The show uses a clever stage that rises and folds out of a decorated box.
Kate Shelley's Train Rescue
Kate Shelley's Train Rescue tells the story of the Iowa teenager who, in 1881, saved the train from plunging to a watery death. Created and performed by Stephanie Vallez, this exciting tale unfolds in the pages of two giant pop-up books peopled with paper puppets, masks, and rod marionettes.
Age group: 5-95
Appleseed!
Appleseed! tells Johnny's true adventures with the settlers, the Native Americans, and the animals and plants around him as well as the stories other apple heroes, including Henderson Luelling, who traveled across the US from Iowa to Oregon, with a wagon loaded with 600 growing apple trees, and Jesse Hiatt, the creator of the Delicious Apple.
Summer Class for Adults!
Have you always wanted to learn more about puppetry?
Are you exploring ways to teach online?
Eulenspiegel puppeteer Monica Leo will teach an online class for adults this summer.
Age group: Adults and teens
Field Trips!
Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre is an excellent destination for your school filed trips!
With shows that connect to the Iowa Core, include study guides, and take place in West Liberty's beautiful 1910 opera house or Owl Glass Puppetry Center's intimate environment, these events are perfect for grades K-5.
Pre-Festival Workshops
If the West Liberty Children's Festival can happen in spite of COVID 19, we will offer workshops the day before, Friday, Sept. 11.
Age group: 12-adult
Puppet Slam for Adults
Every year, the evening before the children's festival, Eulenspiegel and Friends present a “Puppet Slam” at 7:30 P. M. A Puppet Slam is an opportunity to perform and watch short experimental and sometimes outrageous puppet vignettes that are geared towards teenagers and adults.
Age group: teens and adults
West Liberty Children's Festival
If the progress of the pandemic allows, the Twenty Fourth Annual West Liberty Children's Festival will take place Saturday, September 12, 2020, from 10:00 A. M. to 3:00 P. M.
Age group: 2-102
