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Applications now open for our 2027 summer workshops!
Carve a marionette of your own design, work with a team of 10 professional Czech puppet masters, see puppet shows, be part of festivals, and get the experience of a lifetime. MARIONETTE CARVING WORKSHOP: June 12 - 29 Our 18-day workshop focuses that overlaps with the Prague Quadrennial, the world's largest gathering of scene designers run by the Czech Theatre Institute CIRCUS MARIONETTE WORKSHOP - July 30 - August 22 A 3-week workshop where you design, carve and assemble a tr
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Applications now open for our 2027 summer workshops!
Carve a marionette of your own design, work with a team of 10 professional Czech puppet masters, see puppet shows, be part of festivals, and get the experience of a lifetime. MARIONETTE CARVING WORKSHOP: June 12 - 29 Our 18-day workshop focuses that overlaps with the Prague Quadrennial, the world's largest gathering of scene designers run by the Czech Theatre Institute CIRCUS MARIONETTE WORKSHOP - July 30 - August 22 A 3-week workshop where you design, carve and assemble a tr
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See our first Automata Fundamentals Workshop!
Watch the first session of our 2026-27 Automata Fundamentals Online Workshop and learn to make 3 different types of simple automata in the Zoom recording. Simple Mechanisms 1 is an introduction to the year long course Automata Fundamentals Instructions and diagrams from Simple Mechanisms 1: Coming soon Sign up for Simple Mechanisms 2 Join our follow-up class and learn how to make more Simple Mechanisms plus a wooden box - the basis for all automata. Or join our full Automata
Sep 211 min read
See Circus Šup Šup !
See our funny, enchanting, breathtaking CIRCUS MARIONETTE SHOW performed at the Letni Letna New Circus and Theatre Festival, one of Prague's most popular and magical summer festivals. Puppets made and performed by Vernon Freer, Kate Kenney, Elena Humphrey, Arlee Chadwick, Ori Goldbert, Cynthia Galand, Sophia Keel, Madeline White, Matteo Ontiveroz-Alfaro, Miller Shor. Show directed by Josef Choze Jelinek. Photos by Juan Castaneda, Instagram handle: @castersonic And see photos
Aug 271 min read
Come to the (Wooden) Circus!
For the 16th year, students in our Circus Marionette Workshop are bringing their freshly carved puppets to the magical Letni Letna New Circus and Theatre Festival, one of Prague's most popular festivals. And we are taking the show on the road to the gorgeous Baroque Teatrum Kuks Festival. See our dress rehearsal in the Heroldovy sady park across from the Vzlet Theatre. NOT IN PRAGUE? JOIN OUR LIVESTREAM! Saturday 22 August, 4 pm on Instagram, @puppetsinprague WHEN AND WHERE
Aug 161 min read
Moving Mouth Workshop
Find out the secrets of how to design and construct moving eyes for all types of marionettes. After the workshop, make your own prototype with our "recipe" including instructions on how to make a simple version.
Jun 271 min read
Take a tour of our workshop!
See this recording of our livestream during the June 2026 Marionette Carving Workshop
Jun 171 min read
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