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StoneLion Puppet Theatre Presents 'The Spirit Of The Wood'

On Mother's Day weekend, StoneLion Puppet Theatre unveiled The Spirit of the Wood. It's a giant interactive puppet spectacle that the community helped build: a 20 foot monster of trash, 9 foot giant butterflies, 20 foot walking trees, and lots and lots of frogs.

By Laura Spencer

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Kansas City, MO – Artistic director Heather Nisbett-Loewenstein provided this preview before a recent rehearsal on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

The StoneLion Puppet Theatre performs The Spirit of the Wood, with original music by Jack Sharman, Sunday from 2 - 2:30 as part of the festivities of Sunday in the Park at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Laura Spencer is staff writer/editor at the Kansas City Public Library and a former arts reporter at KCUR.
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