The City That Slept – Summer Series at Sandglass Theater

Sandglass Theater opens its New Visions Summer Series with The City That Slept, an imaginative puppetry performance by Tom Tuke, on June 5 and 6 at 7pm. The production blends shadow puppetry, lantern puppets, and large-scale marionettes with sound recordings collected in New York City’s Union Square. The performance also features an original technique developed by Tuke: floating shadow puppets that glide across a pool of moving water, creating luminous images of motion and reflection.

Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tuke studied at the University of Connecticut’s Puppet Arts Program and has performed with Bread and Puppet Theater.


Puppets in Paradise, Performances, Music, Food and Animals!

Puppets in Paradise, Sandglass Theater’s most beloved community event and biennial fundraiser, returns for its 8th edition. Now in partnership with Retreat Farm in Brattleboro, this year welcomes an exciting roster of first-time and returning performers including Joshua Holden, Chad Williams, Finn Campman, Liz Joyce, Faye Dupras, Rose Friedman and Justin Lander, Honey Goodenough, Cynthia Parker-Houghton, Eva Lansberry, Elena Day, Julia J. Slone and Sandglass co-founders Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass. Each company will perform four times and the puppet parade will process three times throughout each day. Please allow 2 hours to experience all of the shows.