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PAPER BAG PLAYERS, founded in 1958, are a company of adults who create and
perform original theater for children ages 4 through 9. Their
shows combine short plays, dances, audience participation, mime,
painting and drawing on stage, and wonderful ragtime music played
live at every performance. The subject matter of the shows reflects
a child's everyday experiences—with a dash of the fantastic
thrown in! Common household objects, cardboard boxes and brown
kraft paper brightened with poster paint and crayon, become
their sets, props and costumes.
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1971
Hot Feet
Judith
Martin, Betty Osgood, Irving Burton, Charles LaPorte
photo: Paul Bey |
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1977
Everybody, Everybody
Judith
Martin, Irving Burton
photo: Wally Littleman |
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THE PAPER
BAG PLAYERS rapport with children stretches round the world. Based in New York City they have toured to British Isles, Egypt, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Iran, Israel, Japan, and Taiwan, and 37 of the United States. Each year the troupe brings its special brand of magic to more than 70,000 children. |
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1985
Thimbe Bellies
Dennis Fox, Brenda Cummings,
Peter Guttmucher
photo: Ken Howard |
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PAPER BAG PLAYERS, include Ted Brackett, Kevin Richard Woodall, Laura Canty-Samuel and Molly Rice. They combine the skills of actors, singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats and clowns! John Stone, resident composer and musical director, plays the music live at every performance on the electric piano—children join in the songs during the performance and are inevitably singing them as they leave the theater. Whether it’s a rag-time beat, the tickle of the slide whistle or the tap tap of a tin can, each and every moment is underlined and enhanced with music. |
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2004
Cat's Meow
Victoria Lauture, Ted Brackett,
Olivia Goode, Kevin Richard Woodall
photo: Jean-Marie Guyaux |
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PAPER BAG PLAYERS awards include: an OBIE (the only children’s’ theater to be so honored), a New York State Artists Award, the American Theater Association Award, the Alliance for Theater and Education Award for “sustained and exceptional achievement in the field of theater for young audiences.”Judith Martin received PARENTS magazine's first "As They Grow" Award and NICK JR honored her with a "PLAYFUL PEOPLE" Award in 2005.
The Paper Bag Players costumes and props have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York Fall Antique Show, the East Hampton Guild Hall Museum. In the Spring of 2008 The Paper Bag Players scenic work will be a major exhibit at the New York City Public Library for the Performing Arts. |
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