Sandglass announces its inaugural Legacy Series, featuring all of our currently touring original works.

This series includes both legacy pieces and original works created by Sandglass’s next generation of Puppet Theater makers. Legacy pieces are named in honor of Sandglass Founders Eric Bass and Ines Zeller Bass, who, in part, originated some of the work that will be presented.

Each show will include a special post show community puppetry “taster,” offering a glimpse into Sandglass’ approach to creating theater with puppets. As a touring company that spends much of our year performing in other parts of the world, this series is a response to popular demand from our hometown audience to perform our work locally.

The first performance in this series is: Isidor’s Cheek
In the Sandglass Theater Tent, Isidor’s Cheek is an adventure told in song and miniature puppets on a revolving table.

Conceived by Ines Zeller Bass
Designed and Performed by Jana Zeller
Directed by Eric Bass
Music composed and recorded by Peter Tavalin

So begins the song, which begins the story, which begins the adventure: One day, something drives Isidor from his little gray existence. His cheek runs away, and Isidor must search around the world to find it again: a world of color and beauty, as well as loneliness and even danger. Inspired by a German children’s book.

Jana performs Isidor’s Cheek on a revolving table filled with all the details of Isidor’s miniature world: from his shabby grey house to a forest of apple trees, through an unfriendly city, across a sea of turtles and barracuda, into the smallest circus in the world. The table revolves to bring Isidor home again and to transform his house, his garden and indeed his whole outlook on life. Isidor himself is barely five and half inches high, an appropriately little hero for a small story with a big heart.

Come celebrate the living tradition of puppetry in Vermont!