The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (LHPAC) will bring engaging multicultural puppet theater to three Seattle parks when “Amadoo and the Crocodile” performs later in September.
“Amadoo” is a lively collection of African stories and musical interludes by African American Jazz greats featuring toy and hand puppets by master puppeteer Clay Martin of the Clay Martin Theater.
Youth and adults will delight to the music of Cab Calloway and Ma Rainey, and will learn how Anansi the Spider once had all the stories in the world and then lost them. Does a bad deed always repay a good deed? Follow Amadoo as he ventures into the jungle and meets Mr. Crocodile to learn the answer.
“Martin’s puppetry brings the world of African fable to life, incorporating many valuable lessons that are relevant today,” notes Jacqueline Moscou, LHPAC Artistic Director. “Puppet Theater is a historic, accessible art form that brings culture and history forward in an engaging way.”
Outdoor performances of AMADOO AND THE CROCODILE are scheduled for these dates, times and locations:
Thursday, September 9, at 3 p.m.
Duwamish Waterway Park, 7900 10th Ave. S
Thursday, September 9, at 4:30 p.m.
Duwamish Waterway Park, 7900 10th Ave. S
Saturday, September 11, at 12 Noon
Flo Ware Park, 28th Ave. S and S Jackson St.
Saturday, September 11 , at 2 p.m.
Flo Ware Park, 28th Ave. S and S Jackson St.
Saturday, September 18, 12 Noon
Bergen Place, 5420 22nd Ave. NW
Saturday, September 18, at 2 p.m.
Bergen Place, 5420 22nd Ave. NW
Puppets in Parks is presented by the LHPAC, whose mission is to celebrate, nurture, present and preserve authentic African American performing arts and cultural legacies.
All performances are FREE and open to the public.
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