Split Personality: Sharing the Stage with Your Puppet

Tired of hiding behind a black curtain? In this playful workshop, you’ll learn techniques for generating and performing scenes played between puppet and puppeteer.

Join Bonnie Duncan (known for playing both the main character and puppeteer of her one-woman shows) as she guides you through the process of how The Gottabees creates and refines their brand of non-verbal physical theater. Using physical theater games and partner exercises, you’ll explore how to divide your inner attention between performer and puppeteer and how to generate new material for stage without words. Participants will create and share movement, moments, scenes, and stories of their own using The Gottabees’ approaches.

This interactive clinic is recommended for puppeteers, actors, dancers, and theater artists of all levels and any discipline who are interested in how puppets and live actors might share the stage.

What to Bring: comfortable clothing to move in, snacks and water, notebook/pencil, a simple hand puppet (work puppets will be provided if you cannot bring one of your own).

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Saturday, February 19 at 11:00 AM, 75 minutes

Join the Bonnie on Saturday, February 18 at 5:00 PM for The Gottabees’ “A Squirrel Stole My Underpants”

Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

Many thanks to the Docent's Collection for providing lodging for our visiting artists throughout our 2022-2023 season

ARTIST BIO

Bonnie Duncan (creator/performer) has blended puppetry, dance, and physical theatre in surprising and delightful ways for the past 16 years. Her work has been described as “an artful world of silent dreams, mime, and dance” (Austin Live Theatre). She worked as one-half of They Gotta Be Secret Agents with Tim Gallagher touring worldwide and winning accolades along the way. Prior to her work as a Secret Agent, Bonnie was a company member of Snappy Dance Theater for 8 years, collaboratively creating and performing sculptural, acrobatic dances internationally. Her movement was called both “breathtakingly simple” and “delightfully crafty” by the Boston Globe. Bonnie leads the Boston-based puppet troupe, The Gottabees.

COVID-19 POLICY

Audience members, staff, and volunteers will be asked to mask while not actively eating, or drinking.

Mayo Street Arts is committed to the safety of everyone at our events and will adhere to all Federal & Maine CDC guidelines on the day of the event. As we anticipate mid-season changes to our COVID-19 policy, please click here to visit our website and view the most current information.