the EE Puppets Page

Our Puppets Page came from a huge demand of people coming to our somewhat large site(encroach.net), sifting through and saying, "WHERE'S THE PUPPETS??!!"

For Images visit our new Puppet Gallery.
(shadow puppets, hand puppets, backpack puppets, puppet stages, with more to come.)

Link to important article about the famed Puppetistas, who were illegally apprehended by the police of Philadelphia. Read their story at the lumpen.com by clicking here. pass it on.

On another puppo-political front, here is an e-mail from our puppeteer friends Damiano and Cristina from Milan's Teatro del Corvo, who wrote telling of their experience at the GATT meeting in Milan.
Click here to read story.

Click here to read Puppet Regime, preview article for the Black Sheep Puppet Festival 2001, including insightful quotes from fest directors and short interview with Mike Smith from EE, by Gordon Spencer.

Links to Mike Smith's reviews and articles in Puppetry Journal:

Interview with Puppeteer Miss Pussycat from New Orleans, Summer 2003

Also a review of her puppet video North Pole Nutrias.

Review of the Fourth Annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival, October 2002

Another great festival produced by the I.A.C. at the historic Pittsburgh Brewhaus

Summer Shorts on the Puppetry Scene in Chicago, 2002

Events in Puppetry during an off-Puppetropolis Summer

Review of Redmoon Theater's Salao - The Worst Kind of Unlucky, Spring 2002

Redmoon of Chicago hits the stage with an adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea

Interview with Ratso, puppet host of dance show Chic-A-Go-Go, 2002

Chic-A-Go-Go is a popular dance show in Chicago hosted by a well travelled puppet journalist, Ratso.

Review of Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Fall 2001

The BSP Festival is a great puppetry fest and features very fresh talent in a unique environment.

Review of Puppetropolis Chicago, Summer 2001

Puppetropolis was a ten day festival with hundreds of performers from around the world!

An excerpt from our Links page related to puppetry:
*	Puppetropolis, Chicago 2001	2001 schedule and info
*	Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Pittsburgh	site temporarliy down e-mail: tkalen@hotmail.com
	Wise Fool Puppetry, get their book	www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/wisefool.htm
	Providence Puppetry Festival	www.perishable.org
	The PUPPETRY Home Page	http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/
	the Puppetry Lounge	http://home.carolina.rr.com/puppetrylounge/
	Puppeteers of America	http://www.puppeteers.org
**	Combustible Puppet Cabaret
	Puppet Uprising in Philadelphia	http://www.puppetuprising.org
	Bread and Puppet homepage	http://www.gpdesigns.com/puppets/
	KneeHigh Puppeteers, Australia friends from Pittsburgh, amazing show.	www.kneehigh.va.com.au
	Puppet Uprising festival, Philly	www.puppetuprising.org
	Scissor Roc Puppet Festival, Chicago	www.spareroomchicago.org