The Trouts at Edinburgh Fringe!

Brace yourself Scotland! The Old Trouts are coming back across the pond to set up camp in the lovely city of Edinburgh! August 1 - 26.

Find out out more starting May 17 by visiting our FaceBook page.

Like us. Follow us. Maybe we'll follow you too. But in a safe and respectful kind of way.

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Twitter: @TheOldTrouts

Instagram: #oldtroutpuppetworkshop

 

Audition Notice - Call for Puppeteers: May 2019

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop is now holding general auditions in hopes of finding performers for a truly mighty slate of upcoming projects.  We are looking for people who have a way with puppets, but who might also have other skills, such as acrobatics, aerialism, dance, clowning, or acting. 

The first of the upcoming projects is Ghost Opera which we are producing in partnership with Calgary Opera, and which will premiere in residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; we need people from roughly April 1^st to June 9^th, 2019.  We are also looking for people to join our touring ensemble, which will be performing in potentially several different shows in rep on a semi-sporadic basis around Canada, the U.S., and Europe for the next few years.

For more information, and how to apply, click here.

Deadline: Sunday June 22, 2018

 

Ghost Opera - Coming May 2019

 

 

With the generous support of

• The Canada Council New Chapter Program
• Calgary Opera
• The Banff Centre
• Opera America and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
• Roberta Stephen Composition Award

 

Jabberwocky - Europe Tour 2018

Thanks Canada. We had a wonderful run to see friends, old and new, in Edmonton, Vancouver and Calgary. But, for as much as we love you (and we really do love you), we've had enough winter. So we're going to take a vacation, sort of.

If you want us, you can find us here this summer:

May 19 - 20, Teatro Alhambra: Granada, Spain

May 22: Teatro Canovas, Malaga, Spain

June 16 - 19, Theatre de la Renaissance, Lyon, France

Les Nuits de Fourvière

Watch the Video Trailer

Created by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop and Friends:

Featuring: Nicolas Di Gaetano, Teddy Ivanov, Pityu Kenderes, Sebastian Kroon
Stage Manager: Nicole Olson Grant-Suttie
Costume Designer: Jen Gareau
Lighting Designer: Terry Middleton
Sound Designer: Jonathan Lewis

“...inspired ... timely ... a fantastical visual world ... as bleak as it is funny."

The Globe & Mail

“... truly masterful ... mind-boggling ... entertaining on so many levels."

Louis B. Hobson, The Calgary Herald

"... a darkly comic pastiche of the primeval ..."

Lori Montgomery, the YYScene

"... a wild, imaginary world ... fresh, wholly original."

The Georgia Straight, Vancouver

" ... the show is a marvel ... truly enchanting ..."

Vancouver Arts Review

“...unimaginable creativity and talent ... downright beautiful."

Vue Magazine, Edmonton

“...a marvellous theatrical adventure, fantastical and ingenious and somehow close to home, that leaves us breathless at every turn ..."

Liz Nicholls, 12th Night.ca

“...a wonderfully entertaining evening of theatre"

Colin MacLean, Gigcity.ca

More about Jabberwocky ...

Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry (CAMP)

With all this pupptery-goodness going on, are you feeling motivated to embark on your own puppeteering lifestyle? If so, check out what our Old Trout brethren have to offer in the ways of learning, training and exploring the art of mask and puppetry.

Start by visiting the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry website. Headed up by Old Trout Pete Balkwill, CAMP has workshops and events happening throughout the year.

Here's a video link to their recent summer intensive: Iinisikimm - an AFA 25th Commemorative Art Project and Canada Council New Chapter initiative.

The 2018 Banff Puppet Intensive is already full, but you can see their Public Showing on January 17, 2018 in Banff.

And if you prefer the East Coast in August, then we suggest joining Old Trout Pete and former Trout Dave Lane at the:

New England Puppet Intensive
July 24 - August 10, 2018
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)

 

The Old Trout Designing Things Division

Imagine if Shakespeare asked the Old Trouts to design one of his shows.

Well, we did. Perhaps you remember a couple years ago that we designed Twelfth Night at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa?  This is that very same production, come west for people who live in Calgary to see it, thanks to our friends at Theatre Calgary are presenting Twelfth Night, "as imagined by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop" as part of their 50th Anniversary Season - which, by the way, is is also a pretty big deal.

Based on a miraculously preserved Baroque ‘Wonder Theatre’ we saw in a castle in the Czech Republic, the design features all the flabbergasting technological marvels of cutting edge theatre from the 18^th century.  And only a couple puppets.  Mostly it’s actual flesh and blood human beings on stage, so if you fear puppets, now is your chance to take in a Trout show, finally. We can't say for sure if the Bard would approve. We'll leave that up to you.

 

Special thanks to all the folks listed below for their on-going support::