At Perishable Theatre,

Hosts David Higgins and Nicole LeDuc welcome you to Blood from a Turnip, November style. Enjoy the late night puppet salon that has lasted longer than some marriages.

$5, 10pm, Friday, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street

Peter Deffet and Perishable Theatre present the Fledgling Festival V — short performances for live audiences.

Get out of the summer heat and check out The Fledgling Festival as it enters its fifth season, its fourth at Perishable Theatre. Festival founder and curator Peter Deffet presents new works of dance, theater, puppetry, music and mania from local and not-so-local artists.

$10 general admission. Come once, get a return ticket for $5! Order tickets through ArtTix or at 401.621.6123

Showtimes 8pm, August 20-30, Thursdays through Sundays, Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street

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If you’re looking to buy the perfect holiday gift for your favorite morbid celebrity-obsessed child, perhaps you might want to check out these Gone But Not Forgotten finger puppets, which remind us of those that passed away in 2008, including Jesse Helms, Heath Ledger, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  (Helms is the one with the Bible and the devil horns.)

Available at Moss [via The Book Bench]

An unusual production tonight at AS220 — Yorick’s Marionettes Play Shakespeare. Here’s what they have to say for themselves.

Marionettes are puppets activated by strings. Those used by Yorick’s Productions are hand carved by artist Dusan Petran, a native of the former Czechoslovakia. Mr. Petran studied the Theater Arts at the Janacek Academy of Arts in Brno and was a theater stage actor prior to founding his own marionette theater. His carving skills earned him a Folk and Traditional Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

8pm, $10, all ages, 115 Empire Street

I’ve been laying off recently, but am very happy to have noticed that the trippiest and probably best-est episode of the Muppet Show has resurfaced on YouTube. Brooke Shields doing Alice in Wonderland:

 If you’ve never seen Bread & Puppet Theatre, they’ve been around since the early ’60s, using puppets and other visuals to tell stories without words.  We’ve been to their museum in VT, enjoying 20-odd-foot-tall puppets, fresh baked bread, and cheap, zany artwork (our kitchen houses a screen print saying, “Let’s eat garlic and make out”).  Tonight catch a somewhat adult-themed show at the Met School’s Black Box Theatre.  Tomorrow, catch a free, family-friendly show outside Brown, and Sunday, another at Trinity United Methodist Church.  I kind of doubt they’ll have bread with them at the shows, but you never know.

Friday: The Met School / 325 Public Street, Providence / 8 p.m. / $10 at door or at www.brownpapertickets.com

Saturday: Main Green at Brown University / 3 p.m. / free

Sunday: parking lot of the Trinity United Methodist Church, corner of Broad and Bridgham Streets, Providence / 3 p.m. / free  

Providence, RI: Perishable Theatre, Rhode Island’s Research and Development Theatre, presents
Blood from a Turnip, Rhode Island’s oldest late night puppet salon! Enjoy the salon that has lasted longer than some marriages.

Friday March 21, 2008 at 10 p.m.
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There has been a recent down trend in the number of puppet related posts. Let’s correct that problem with sock puppets singing Lithium by Nirvana as performed by the Polyphonic Spree:

[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cGDzY2jDqSM]

and Cake’s version of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs:

[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C2pgqfasrxM]

The Muppet show and Peter Sellers:

[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NUeDjAkPgLc]