CrabgrassPuppets.com
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Crabgrass Puppet Theatre
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RABGRASS PUPPET THEATRE is a touring puppet theatre founded in 1982 by JAMIE KEITHLINE and BONNY HALL. Jamie and Bonny met in 1979, while performing in Laughingstock!, a puppet-and-actor production at the University of Connecticut in which Bonny played Jamie's father. They have been working together ever since!
Bonny Hall started a puppet troupe while in high school in Greensboro, N.C., and liked it so much that she decided to make it her profession. She made her way to the University of Connecticut, the only university in the country to offer Bachelors and Masters degrees in puppetry. While at UConn, she ran into Jamie Keithline. Jamie was studying acting, but he fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up becoming a puppeteer. Following graduation, Bonny and Jamie toured the East Coast with Bart Roccoberton and the Pandemonium Puppet Company.
In 1982, Bonny and Jamie decided to take a break from the snow and moved to California, where they formed their own company. Their first show, What a Clever Idea! had giant puppets that grew to eight feet tall, and was selected to perform at the 1983 Pacific Southwest Puppetry Festival. Subsequent shows have featured a variety of innovative and unusual puppets both large and small, including a seven-foot crocodile (Follow That Rabbit!), a smoke-breathing dragon (A Renaissance Miracle), and an animated garbage heap (Crabgrass Uprising!). A break-dancing Rap-o-saurus was the star of Dinosaur Dimension, which was commissioned by the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California and was selected to perform at the 1987 Pacific Southwest Puppetry Festival. While in California, Jamie and Bonny gave thousands of performances in schools, libraries, museums, and arts festivals. They also created an authentic Elizabethan puppet show for the Northern California Renaissance Faire, which included the stories of "Adam and Eve" (complete with fig leaves) and "St. George and the Dragon." In 1989, Jamie and Bonny returned to the East Coast, settling in the small town of Hampton, Connecticut.
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