Margaret Moody's Solo Page has moved

Please visit Margaret Moody's website for her solo performances, workshops and for the "Saturdays with Puppets" series: margaretmoodypuppets.com
Madeleine and Margaret will continue to present exciting two-puppeteer shows through Galapagos Puppets. 

"Mathilda's Bath" and "Cow and Mouse's Picnic" this Saturday

Join Margaret Moody for two funny puppet shows this Saturday at 2pm at Arlington Center for the Arts. In "Mathilda's Bath," adapted from a Mrs. Piggle Wiggle story, Mathilda loves mud baths -- but not the soapy kind. And in "Cow and Mouse's Picnic" two friends share everything except dessert. Come for the show, stay for coffee and puppet-play. 
Tickets are $7; 3 for $20. Please pay by cash or check at the door. Best for ages 3 and up.

This Saturday we team up with Arlington Center for the Arts to offer a "Puppets Together" workshop for families, after the show. Make puppets and perform with your family! More about the class: acarts.org/classes.php

Farm and Town Fables

"Cow and Mouse's Picnic" and "Mathilda's Bath"
 by Margaret Moody

Saturday, March 14 at 2pm
Arlington Center for the Arts
41 Foster Street
Tickets $7; 3 for $20
(tickets may be reserved via galapagospuppets@gmail.com or call Margaret at (781) 643-1228)

Spring is almost here. Cow and Mouse are frolicking at a picnic -- but do they have to share their cookies? In in the second story, Mathilda wallows in the mud. Can Mom coax her into the tub? Join Margaret Moody for two funny fables for ages 3 and up. We hope you'll stay around for puppet-play and coffee after the show.

On March 14, the Saturdays with Puppets series teams up with Arlington Center for the Arts to offer a puppet workshop after the show from 3 to 4:30. Make puppets with fabric and paper; then practice your show with your family. More info:acarts.org/classes.php

Mischief with the Monkey King

Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven

by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday 2/14 at 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash or check

(can be reserved by emailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com

or calling Margaret at (781) 643-1228)

Celebrate the Year of the Sheep with a funny Monkey King puppet show performed with traditional Taiwanese puppets and choreography. Please stay after to decorate and dance with a New Year lion. And drink a little oolong tea!

Welcome the Year of the Goat! Show on 2/14

Lion dancing last year!

"Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven" 

by Margaret Moody

Saturday, February 14 at 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts theater

41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20

Come welcome the Year of the Goat with a lively Monkey King story and lion dancing!

About the story: The Monkey King is thrilled to have a job in the Heavenly peach garden but when he isn't invited to a Heavenly banquet he flies off to make some mischief. Margaret Moody presents the story with traditional Taiwanese puppets and choreography -- and traditional monkey humor.

About the lion dance: In Chinese communities people invite lion dancers to bring good luck to all. We invite you and your children to help decorate and dance with our lion.

Please stay for some oo-long tea as well.

To reserve tickets: please email Margaret at galapagospuppets@gmail.com or call her at (781) 643-1228.

Warm Stories for a Cold Saturday

"Stories from Snowy Lands" by Sparky's Puppets

Saturday, January 10 at 11am & 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts theater

41 Foster Street, Arlington

Tickets $7; 3 for $20 (cash or check at the door)

Watch a snowman come to life and visit a toymaker's shop through the gentle magic of Sparky's Puppets. Children as young as 3 will enjoy Sparky's funny shows. 

Show times are 11am and 2pm, tickets are $7 at the door. Enjoy puppet-play and coffee after either show.

After the 2pm show we invite you to stay for "Puppets Together," a workshop for parents and children to make simple puppets and practice ways to use them in shows at home. Best for ages 4 and up. Show plus workshop: Parent/child pair: $30; Parent/child/child: $40. 3pm to 4:30.

For more information or to reserve tickets: call Margaret at (781) 643-1228 or email galapagospuppets@gmail.com

"Stories from Snowy Lands" on January 10th

"Stories from Snowy Lands" by Sparky's Puppets

Saturday, January 10th at 11am & 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash at the door

(may be reserved by emailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com or calling Margaret at (781) 643-1228

The warmest way to spend a January Saturday is with Sparky's Puppets. Watch a snowman come to life, then giggle at the antics of an ice-fishing bear in "Stories from Snowy Lands." Sparky's gentle humor appeals to children as young as 3 and keeps their parents and grandchildren laughing too. Come for the show; stay for puppet-play and coffee.

Sparky Davis has been performing favorite children's stories for schools, libraries and festivals throughout New England for more than 30 years. Each of her shows features colorful hand puppets and plenty of audience participation.

"Stories from Snowy Lands" is the third show of this winter's Saturdays with Puppets series of fine puppetry for families at Arlington Center for the Arts. Still to come:

"Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven" by Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, February 14 at 2pm

"Cow and Mouse's Picnic" and "Mathilda's Bath" by Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, March 14 at 2pm

Come meet Badger on December 6th

"Badger Meets the Fairies" by Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, December 6 at 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash at the door

Mr. Badger flies off to help the fairies with a project in their garden. Can he stay and learn to fly? Join Margaret Moody for a hand puppet show based on European fairy lore. Original puppets and sets built by Sandra Pastrana and Margaret; lilting music by Alison Plante. Best for ages 4 and up.

We hope you'll stay after the show to create your own fairy!

Want to reserve a ticket? please email galapagospuppets@gmail.com or call Margaret at (781) 643-1228.

"Saturdays with Puppets" continues on December 6

"Badger Meets the Fairies" by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 2pm
Arlington Center for the Arts theater
41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash or check at the door
may be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com or calling 781 643-1228

Mr. Badger is thrilled to meet Blossom, a flower fairy, in the garden. He flies away with her to help the fairies build a playground. But then it's complicated: the fairies won't use cement; and Mr. Badger wants to learn to fly. Join Margaret Moody for a gentle tale based on European fairy lore. Best for ages four and up.

"Badger Meets the Fairies" features puppets and sets built by Sandra Pastrana and Margaret Moody and a music score created by Alison Plante of Berklee College of Music.

Please stay after the show for puppet-play -- and coffee for grown-up friends.

NOTE: there will be ONE SHOW on December 6th, at 2pm.

"The Three Pigs and Other Tales" at ACA

"The Three Pigs and Other Tales" by Deborah CostineSaturday, November 8 at 11am and 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash or check at the door

Join masterful puppeteer Deborah Costine for classic stories told with shadow puppets -and a gentle touch. Tomorrow opens this season's "Saturdays with Puppets" at Arlington  Center for the Arts. Come for the show, and stay for puppet-play and coffee afterwards.

Reservations? email galapagospuppets@gmail.com or call 781-643-1228 before 8am on Nov. 8.

More shows to come in our sixth season:

“Badger Meets the Fairies” by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, December 6, 2 pm

“Stories from Snowy Lands” by Sparky’s Puppets

Saturday, January 10, 11am and 2pm

“Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven” by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, February 14, 2 pm                        

“Cow and Mouse’s Picnic and Other Tales” by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, March 14 at 2pm

"The Three Little Pigs and Other Tales" by Deborah Costine

The Three Pigs and Other Tales

by Deborah Costine

November 8

11am and 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

Tickets $7, cash or check at the door

Join puppeteer Deborah Costine for gentler versions of classic stories told with shadow puppets. “The Three Pigs and Other Tales” is designed especially for children ages three and up, featuring simple humor and a whimsical stage that allows Deborah to talk with her young audience from above the screen.  Come for the show, the first in this season’s “Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts,” and stay for coffee and puppet-play afterward. Tickets may be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com.

Deborah is an artist, author, naturalist and puppeteer who has been presenting school and public performances throughout New England for over thirty years. She is a winner of the U.N.I.M.A. USA Citation for Excellence for her production, "A Woodland Cinderella," and a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation for the production of her original show: “Turtle’s New Home.”

More puppet shows to come this season at Arlington Center for the Arts:

Saturday, December 6, 2pm: Badger Meets the Fairies, Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, January 10, 11am and 2pm: Stories from Snowy Lands, Sparky's Puppets

Saturday, February 14, 2pm: Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven, Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, March 14, 2pm: Cow and Mouse's Picnic and other Tales, Galapagos  Puppets

Welcome Spring with "The Carrot Salesman"

Mr. Bunni with a carrot customer

"THE CARROT SALESMAN"by Brad Shur of Puppet Showplace Theatre

Can the sweet bunny in the fedora sell enough carrots to please his boss?

Please join us this Saturday:
March 15th, at 11am and 2pm
Arlington Center for the Arts 
41 Foster Street
Tickets $7, 3 for $20, cash or check at the door
can be reserved by calling (781)643-1228 or emailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com

After the show, we'll celebrate SPRING by planting carrots. And playing with puppets!

Thanks for another great year of "Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts"!

Mr. Bunni's boss

Would you buy a carrot from this man?

"The Carrot Salesman" by Brad Shur

Saturday, March 15 at 11am and 2 pm

Arlington Center for the Arts theater

Tickets $7; 3 for $20 by cash or check at the door

More info: galapagospuppets.blogspot.com

Join Mr. Bunni, a door-to-door vegetable salesman, as he journeys from earth to sea and even to outer space to find new customers. Will he ever sell enough carrots to please his boss? Or will his new friends teach him a valuable lesson? This imaginative tabletop performance features a live actor, colorful 2D paper puppets, and plenty of audience interaction. 

Brad Shur is a versatile puppeteer who has created and performed characters made of everything from pixels to paper mache. He is the Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline, MA.

We offer two performances of this warm, funny show: 11am and 2pm

Please stay after to plant your own carrot and play with puppets!

Brad Shur’s original works include The Yankee Peddler: Stories and Songs from Old New England and The Magic Soup and Other Stories, recently featured at the Puppeteers of America National Festival 2013. Prior to becoming the Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace, Shur toured the country as a performer with Big Nazo (Rhode Island), Wood & Strings Theatre (Tennessee) and The PuppeTree (Vermont). As a builder Shur has designed and fabricated puppets for American Idol, Dollywood, Avenue Qproductions, and the U.S.S. Constitution Museum. Shur is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.