Puppet Videos

As a final project in Creatures Without Hearts ( the puppet class) students chose a story from the 1845 classic German children’s book Struwwlepeter written by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann . In the 1990’s a band called the Tiger Lillies composed music for a theatre production called, Shockheaded Peter, an adaptation of the book. Each student created a puppet video to the music, interpreting it in their own creative and unique way. You will see demonstrations of shadow and paper puppets, hand puppets and marionettes, object puppets and puppets ranging in scale from finger puppet size to life size. The stories are all a bit macabre but back in the 1880’s children were scared into being good.