Toronto Summer Music Festival Presents: Imada Puppet Troupe (Ina Valley, Nagano) and Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe (Columbia, Missouri)

Toronto Summer Music Festival Presents:
Imada Puppet Troupe (Ina Valley, Nagano) and Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe (Columbia, Missouri)

Date: Thursday, July 22
Time: 6:45 pm pre-concert talk with Martin Holman/8:00 pm performance
Location: MacMillan Theatre, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, 80 Queen’s Park Crescent
Tickets: $30-$75 available at http://www.torontosummermusic.com or (416) 408-0208

Toronto Summer Music Festival is thrilled to present the Imada Puppet Troupe, founded in 1704. Using half life-size puppets and accompanied by chanted narration and music played on traditional instruments, the troupe perform a series of delightful, inspiring short plays and dance pieces. The troupe is joined by the Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe, the only American troupe that performs traditional Japanese Bunraku* puppetry.
Chicago Weekly praised the Bunraku Bay Troupe’s “wonder in craftsmanship and coordination,” remarking, “the entrance was enough to send chills down everyone’s spines ....”

For more information, please visit http://www.torontosummermusic.com

*[boon-rah-koo]: a vivid, sophisticated style of puppet theatre that originated in Japan more than 300 years ago