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Below is our 2009-2010 Show Schedule. If you haven't experienced Thistle Theatre, we look forward to introducing your family or group to our family of fun and exciting characters.

Thistle Theatre is the only performing arts organization in the Pacific Northwest that specializes in Bunraku puppets, an ancient Japanese style of puppetry. The puppeteers, dressed head-to-toe in black to suggest invisibility, operate all of the character’s limbs by hand from behind.

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2009-2010 Season Shows

   

Baba Yaga and the Bag of Gold

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Baba Yaga and the Bag of Gold

 

Russia
Where can you find a hut that walks on chicken legs or a fence of bones and skulls?  Where else but in the forest of the famous Russian witch, Baba Yaga.  She is up to her old tricks again when she steals the family savings, a bag of gold, from the family of Vasalisa and Ivan.   The brave, but foolish, Ivan sets off to recover the family treasure. Can Ivan avoid being captured by Baba Yaga or will his sister Vasalisa need to attempt a daring rescue?

Ages 3-12
Educational emphasis : Stranger awareness and the danger of acting on impulse.

Family Show Times:
TICKETS: $7.00 child/senior, $9.00 adult

 

Magnuson Park Theatre:

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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
October 10, 11   1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Sunset Hill:

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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
October 16  7:30PM
October 17, 18   1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Bellevue Youth Theater:

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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
October 24, 25   2:00PM and 4:00PM

   
   
   

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

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Jim Henson Foundation

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

 

Great Britain
Young Beatrix Potter persuades her governess to join her in reenacting the day her pet mice earned their reputation for being “two bad mice”. On a search for food, mice Tom Thumb and Hunca Mucha find Beatrix’s doll house and are driven to outrageous behavior when they learn the delicious looking food is made of inedible plaster!  A new production with puppets designed by Tony DeFilipps and funded in part by the Jim Henson Foundation.

Educational emphasis: For students to listen and discuss Japanese cultural traditions.

 

Family Show Times:
TICKETS: $7.00 child/senior, $9.00 adult

 

Sunset Hill:

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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
December  4  7:30PM
December 5, 6, 1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Magnuson Park Theatre:

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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
December 12, 13  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Bellevue Youth Theater:

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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
December 19, 20  2:00PM and 4:00PM

   
   

Auntie Lena’s African Stories

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Auntie Lena’s African Stories

 

Africa
Auntie Lena and her puppet friends tell three African stories of friendship. Jackal loves to trick his friend Rabbit into making her play his favorite game in Jackal’s Favorite Game. The Monkey’s Heart is a trickster story of a friendship betrayed, and new friendship is explored in Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together

 

Family Show Times:
TICKETS: $7.00 child/senior, $9.00 adult

 

Magnuson Park Theatre:

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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
January 23, 24  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Sunset Hill:

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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
February 5  7:30PM
February 6, 7  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Bellevue Youth Theater:

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16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
February 13, 14  2:00PM and 4:00PM       

   

The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon

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The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon

 

Korea
A young tiger, thinking he is the fiercest in all Korea, ventures down a mountainside in search of food. He overhears a mother trying to stop her daughter from crying with a piece of dried persimmon (kotgum). The silly tiger thinks the kotgum must be a very frightening creature if it can instantly stop a child from crying. Afraid that the kotgum will find him, the Tiger hides in the barn where a thief is hiding!

Ages 3-12
Educational Emphasis: The Korean culture and the problems that come from misunderstanding.

Family Show Times:
TICKETS: $7.00 child/senior, $9.00 adult

 

Magnuson Park Theatre:

MAP

Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
March 6, 7  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Bellevue Youth Theater:

MAP

16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
March 13, 14  2:00PM and 4:00PM

   
 

Sunset Hill:

MAP

Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
March 19  7:30PM
March 20, 21  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
   

Tales of Peter Rabbit

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Supported in part by
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4 Culture

Tales of Peter Rabbit

 

Great Britain
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" are combined to reveal the beloved world of Beatrix Potter. On a beautiful summer morning the lovable hedgehog Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle merrily journeys to the fir tree home of Mrs. Rabbit. She is delivering the freshly washed clothes of Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. Little does she know that Peter is going to wear his clean blue jacket on a dangerous adventure in Mr. McGregor’s garden!

Call (206) 524-3388 to join us for our Peter Rabbit tea party!

Ages 3-12
Educational emphasis: Right and wrong and the consequences of actions.

 

Family Show Times:
TICKETS: $7.00 child/senior, $9.00 adult

 

Sunset Hill:

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Sunset Hill Community Club
3003 NW 66th Street, Seattle
May 14  7:30PM
May 15, 16  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
 

Bellevue Youth Theater:

MAP

16661 Northup Way
Bellevue, WA 98008
May 22, 23  2:00PM and 4:00PM

   
 

Magnuson Park Theatre:

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Theatre Building #47
7110 62nd Ave NE, Seattle WA 98115
May 29, 30  1:00PM and 3:00PM

   
   
   

 


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