The Puppeteers' Cooperative Home Page

Updated: 1/8/12

Page of Thumbnail Sketches

Page of Thumbnail Photos

Simple Puppets:
Fathead*
Purely Cardboard*
Pole Dragon
Face Banner*
Star Banner*
Hat Cat*
Opera Singer*
Totem*
Flier*
Jo's Penguin
Shimmy Dancer
Hattifatner
Other (Flapping Angel)*

Backpacks:
Jo's Ladies
Jose's Ecstatic
Demonoid*
Hep Cat*
Skeleton*

Animals:
Two-person Fish
Cats and Dogs*
Riding Horse*
Wire Demon*
Circus Stilt Ape
One-person horse*
Two-person Cat*
Four-person Beast*
Frog*
Other Animals

Birds:
Bread and Puppet Flying Bird*
Flapping-wing Bird*
Heron*
Amusing Bird*
Wire Bird*
Stilt Bird

Giant Puppets:
Kid-King*
Preying Mantis
Mr. America*
Poseidon*
Flora*
Dorchester African King*
RISD Fisherman*
Samba Dancer*
George's Jumping Jack Death

Dragons:
Ground Dragon*
Half-hoop Caterpiller*
Half-hoop Dragon
Mermaid
Heads
Tails
Other Dragons*

Hoop and Cloth Puppets:
Wiggletree*
Mr. Punch*
Big Fish
Big Croc*
Other:
Foam Puppets
Printed Banners*
Plaster Casting

Hands

Stilts Crankie (paper movie) Materials

Page of Photos and thumbnails of parades and pageants

Rain (on some other) Forest Parade.... The Street is a Shining Sea*.... Urbanity*.... Midnight Ramble Parade.... Rites of Spring*.... >Masque of the Five Senses

List of people who are interested in making giant puppets, pageants,and parades. Get in touch with others in your area.

Who we are
Why we're doing this
George Konnoff
About Organizing Pageants and Parades

Photos, videos, news, and etc. on our Facebook Page

We have an Etsy store!

We have some Videos on Youtube.

scripts
The Story of a Stone ..... The Story of Fred and Ed (2001-2005)..... Romeo and Juliet on Earth...... The Odyssey..... Iqbal Masih or Dreams of a Better Life..... The Rights of Spring..... Metropolis..... Purim Play..... King Lear of the Insects

inflatables
Hey puppetistas! police rules against giant puppets containing sticks at demonstrations getting you down? Have you considered Inflatables?

Perhaps we're being too subtle...............
you can hire us, you know!
about Plays
about Dancing Puppets and Puppet Romps about workshops about The Construction Section about impromptu parades and instant pageants about Play Making

Wanna be in a parade ? Pictures from First Night Boston

What We're up to:

Making a Dinosaur

Making sorta kinda bunraku puppets

Making a Giant Puppet Pageant (The Rights of Spring)

Making a Giant Puppet Parade (First Night Boston)

Turning a parade inside out

links
For more information about all sorts of puppetry, visit: The Puppetry Home Page
The Bread and Puppet Theater is the great granddaddy of giant puppet theaters in the United States.
The Puppet Co-op does a Fourth of July Parade every year with The Governor's Institute on the Arts of Vermont; see The GIA Home Page for the Triumph of the Arts samba parade.
we heard the poetry of Geof Hewitt there
And also the (found and written) poetry of Verandah Porche

The Puppet Library is in the basement of wonderful Emmanuel Church

If you have enjoyed this page and this information, we do accept:

Buy a puppeteer a beer!

puppetco@gis.net

The information on the Puppeteers Cooperative Website may be freely copied, used, and distributed except where noted