This performance lasts approximately 45 minutes and will include time for questions and answers with Modern Times Theater after the show. It’s a low-tech old-time spectacle, entertaining to people of all ages: from one to one hundred. The program is rounded out with live music played on a variety of instruments, from the cornet to the bicycle pump.
Justin Lander, showman of the absurd, portrays all the characters. The show is hosted per tradition by a “bottler”, the uku-lady Rose Friedman. The hand puppets are created from up-cycled designer trash and performed in an eccentric itinerant puppet stage.
Punch to deftly remove your bad mood, whilst he exhausts your child! Gawk as Judy struggles to balance a checkbook before being eaten by the carnivore du jour! Feast your eyes upon the diaper change that should not be! It’s a melodrama of epically small proportions but so funny that audiences forget they aren’t in the room. Punch features the one and only Punch and Judy, presented live, and updated for the 21st century. Punch by Modern Times Theater on Apat 4 p.m. ETĪs part of its 2021 Spring virtual programming, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut is pleased to present The Perils of Mr. Punch” by Modern Times Theater on 4/24 at 4 p.m. For more information and to learn about other online programming, visit or email in Events, Featured, News “The Perils of Mr. You can see her work (and hear some playlists!) at. Chamindika’s work has been supported by the Henson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the Twin Cities Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and Minnesota State Arts Board and her last puppet theater production was presented by Pillsbury House Theatre.
Chamindika is the founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, which supports Native, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in developing creative and technical skills in contemporary puppetry. She loves transporting people to another world through puppetry and music. Chamindika Wanduragala is a Sri Lankan American puppet artist/stop motion filmmaker with a visual arts background, and a DJ (DJ Chamun). This forum is co-sponsored by the UConn Asian American Cultural Center. Join us for this fascinating discussion with Wanduragala about Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, how it creates access to puppetry, and its processes for doing so. But Chamindika Wanduragala, a Sri Lankan American puppeteer, filmmaker, and DJ, has created and directs Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to support Native, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color puppeteers to develop the creative and technical means to tell new stories through puppetry. Puppetry in the United States has often not been able to reach out to wider communities of performers and audiences, especially in terms of training new puppeteers. This forum will take place on Facebook Live ( /BallardInstitute/ ) and will be available afterwards on Facebook and the Ballard Institute YouTube Channel ( /channel/UC3VSthEDnYS6ZjOwzT1DnTg ). For its final online installment of the 2021 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host “Access to Puppetry for Native, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color,” with Chamindika Wanduragala on Thursday, May 13 at 7 p.m.
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