Puppets-Masks-Sets
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Bruce and Marylou, Stars of three productions in their third rendition, 2008, papier mache hand puppets, 24 inches.
Deborah Costine and Lenny Gerwick by indoor puppet stage, 15 feet wide, 8 feet high, wood frames covered in light impenetrable fabric, proscenium 6 feet wide.
Proscenium close up, left, The Messenger from "Aladdin", Unc' Billy Possum from "New England Animals" Brer Bear from "Trickster Tales". Set is from "Trickster Tales".
Pilgrim Adventure to America, papier mache hand puppets, most 24 inches, 12 inch cloth turkey rod puppet, set of Plimoth in 1621, acrylic on canvas, 43X84 inches, mask and costume of King James. Masked scenes were interspersed with puppetry.
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, papier mache hand puppets, 24 inches, acrylic on canvas set, 43X84 inches. Left: Magician, Aladdin, Princess, Messenger, Sultan.
Adventures From Thornton Burgess, papier mache hand puppets, 11 to 24 inches, Reddy Fox, Jimmy Skunk, Whitefoot the Mouse, Peter Rabbit, on right Old Man. Hooty Owl, papier mache rod puppet, 9 inches, Winter Set, acrylic on canvas, 43X60 inches.
Old Mother West Wind from Adventures from Thornton Burgess, papier mache rod puppet with fabric, 45 inches across
Inside the Haunted House, papier mache hand puppets, Witch, 28 inches, Bruce and Marylou, 24 inches, set acrylic on canvas, 43X84 inches, Monster puppet, papier mache body puppet, 84 inches in height.
Midwinter Magic, papier mache puppets, 24 inches, set is wood, acrylic on canvas on two panels, 43X60 inches, Snow Sprite, rod puppet, 45 inches.
Festival of Fun, papier mache masks worn by puppeteers in pantomimed skits performed to music.
Otis, papier mache and cloth rod puppets, old man 45 inches, black light
Rip Van Winkle, 4 papier mache "Strange Little Men", 20 inches, Rip Van Winkle, 24 inches, papier mache rod dog with dangling legs, on right, Rip after sleeping 20 years.
Three Little Pigs, Deborah Costine with shadow puppet stage, on right, other shadow puppets, 6 to 10 inches.
Twig Family Deborah Costine with her papier mache tree stage and object puppets.
Aesop's Fables, Lenny Gerwick with three moving mouth, cloth hand puppets
Aesop's Fables, 3-dimensional set for Town Mouse, 27X54 inches, moving mouth cloth hand puppets, dog is moving mouth rod, mice cloth hand puppets, fox papier mache hand puppet, 24 inches.
Puppet Play, papier mache hand puppets, 24 inches, set is acrylic on plywood, tree house is built on stage, Tarzan Skunk papier mache covered in cloth and maribou.
A Woodland Cinderella, Deborah Costine by her papier mache tree stage and papier mache hand puppets, 20 inches.
Turtle's Wetland Quest, blue lizard is fabric object puppet, others are papier mache, 20 inches, set is papier mache. On right is the Blandings Turtle.
