A chartered guild of the Puppeteers of America
Serving Oregon and Southwestern Washington since 1975

The next CAP meeting will be on Thursday July 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Lincoln Performance Hall
Portland State University
1620 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR 97201

We'll meet briefly in the lobby before seeing:

Wow, sounds like fun, doesn't it?????

Shae Uisna, CAP's new Vice President of Programs, has kindly offered CAP members a discount on tickets for Thursday evening, July 17, so for only $10, you get a meeting and a performance of her show, Bitchin'tella! The Cajun Puppet Musical.

Charged with the vitality of Cajun music, dance, sex, and heat, Bitchin'tella is a fractured fairytale full of sensual pleasures, wild river indulgences and life and death struggles.

Denizens of a Mississippi riverboat cafe, Papa Fork, Mama Spoon, and all their children, spoons and forks and cups and dishes, savor life aboard the good ship Lolli'toots, until the arrival of Bitchin'tella, a ruthless, gold-digging man-eater who causes the paddle wheel of fortune to spin wildly out of control.

The production uses rod, shadow, and other puppets to create wonderful total theatre with nightmare Barbie puppet moments and visual richness as we go from heaven to hell on the Mississippi.

Rated R for language, puppet nudity, pirate humor, nightmare elements, and deviant pickle behavior. Under 15 not admitted. Running time: 80 minutes with one intermission

This is an adult puppet show, so be advised.

You need to call the PSU Box Office at (503) 725-3307
to reserve your discounted CAP Tickets.
You access your discount by telling the box office that you're with CAP.

Congratulations to the following who were elected officers of CAP at our June 2008 meeting:
Jason Ropp, President
Shae Uisna, Vice President-Programs
Samantha Anne Maggio, Vice President-Membership
Cherie Munske, Secretary
Marty Richmond, Treasurer, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster

Well, with the CAP Cabaret and the Tears of Joy 35th Anniversary bash over, the winter/spring puppet season is winding down, and we are shifting into the summer library circuit.

CAP President Jason Ropp's Dragon Theatre Puppets has a whole summer full of dates booked all over Oregon & SW Washington for their brand new show, "LITTLE BUGS, BIG WORLD", all of which are listed at Jason's Website: http://www.dragontheaterpuppets.com.

To review the wonderful shows that were presented at the
Portland stop of the Puppeteers of America's Northwest Region
Rolling Regional Festival, click on the link below:

http://www.cappuppets.org/cabaret2008.htm

To view pictures of the exhibit by the Olde World Puppet Theatre
at Tears of Joy Theatre's PuppetFest 2006, click here

Book your own performance of
The Wacky Adventures of Lewis And Clark

Lewis and Clark map out the great Northwest with the help of Sacagawea and their many friends.
Dangerous lands, grizzly bears, mosquitoes, sinking boats, harsh winters and bad fashion
were just a few of the benefits in the early 1800's!
Presented as a puppet show that people of all ages will love. Learn, laugh and languish
at the mishaps and discoveries of the famous duo Lewis and Clark.

$300 for one show, or $500 for two shows on one day.
Presented by: Zing Productions and Dragon Theater Puppets
Call (503) 312-5979 to book this show for your event!

CAP's own Olde World Puppet Theatre has an on-line puppet museum featuring puppet activities that are fun and educational for the whole family. There are already lots of pages and pictures, and more are added almost every week.

There are puppets that you can download and build, pictures of puppets, puppet history, links to puppet sites around the world, and an ongoing feature describing the Olde World Puppet Theatre building puppets for several different productions, including Tears of Joy Theatre's production: Perseus, Hero of Ancient Greece.

To visit the museum, click here or on the picture of Ping Pong above.

If you have an upcoming public production in the Pacific Northwest area that you would like listed here, see the contact information below.

Contact Marty Richmond, Webmaster & Newsletter Editor at:
owpt@att.net
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Latest update: June 30, 2008