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 next performance in this series is: When I Put On Your Glove

A piece about belonging, memory, and inter-generational dialogue.

Performed and Created by Shoshana Bass
Creator of the original Autumn Portraits, Eric Bass
Directed by Gerard Stropnicky
Choreographed by Alison Mott
Sound design by Maria Pugnetti
Design and Construction by Ines Zeller Bass
Music by GlassDuo

When I Put On Your Glove is a puppetry, dance and spoken narrative piece that explores a daughter’s relationship to her father’s work building upon a premise that puppets are containers of memory. In it, a daughter explores what it means for her to slip into her father’s art – and not just the form, but the actual pieces.

This work addresses universal questions of belonging, childhood, fear of loss, death and the complicated nature of navigating generational artistic legacy. The passing of these puppets into new hands marks a pivotal moment of generational transition for Sandglass Theater. It is an engagement with what legacy means in the field of puppetry; how an art form endures and transforms as it is handed to the next generation; meeting the voice of the past with the voice of the present, and singing it into the future.

Come celebrate the living tradition of puppetry in Vermont!