Adam Swartz Puppets – Around the World in Five Folktales

Travel around the world without leaving your seat! Adam Swartz Puppets presents five different versions of a familiar story with a variety of puppetry styles, and lots of help from the audience.  Can you recognize this tale from China, Egypt, Ireland, Canada, and right here where you live?  Discover the differences and similarities that make stories from many cultures both unique and unifying.  Audience members work together to create a brand-new twist for an old-old tale.

Adam Schwartz has been traveling the United States since 1999, using his powers of storytelling and puppetry for good.

For Adam Swartz Puppets, Adam creates and performs original, interactive puppet shows to entertain and educate crowds of all ages. He directs summer theater camps and presents year-round workshops for children and adults and is a registered artist with the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and participates in extended residency programs with Galaxy Arts in Education and Arts Erie in Pennsylvania.

Adam also designs and builds puppets for other artists. In addition to puppeteering, acting, and doing technical work for his own theatre company and others, Adam is a storyteller for Middle Earth Studios in Stony Run, Pennsylvania.

Adam will also hold a small puppet building workshop at 7:30 pm in Westminster Hall at the State College Presbyterian Church.

A First Night Button is required for this performance.