PAST PRODUCTIONS

The Walk with Little Amal: An Honor of Bravery from Bat City

October 20th
The Texas State Capitol 

Little Amal is a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has traveled across 15 countries meeting more than a million people. She will journey 6,000 miles across the United States in one of the largest free public festivals ever created. 

Glass Half Full Theatre  joined Amal with a cloud of bat puppets representing the power of community and the right to migrate. Kids in collaboration with Creative Action made their own bat puppet at home with our example in English or en español, to wave at The Texas State Capitol. Amal was presented with an award of bravery from local leaders with the American Artists Project. Music from Minor Mishap Marching Band and Mariachi Las Alteñas led Amal through the Capitol Grounds. 

Climate Change Refugee Walkabout Puppets

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Lucha Libre in the Global Arena

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Yamel Cucuy

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Yamel Cucuy is the story of a girl on the precipice of adulthood, contending with the physical and metaphysical violence of borders.  Yamel is hunted by immigration agents while haunted by specters from the folklore of her youth in Mexico.  On the shadowy frontier between worlds, she forges her own spirit of courage and wisdom, in the refusal to be “taken away,” either by legendary phantoms or agents of human law. Blending sophisticated puppetry with live actors, Yamel Cucuy draws upon frightening folk tales and modern horror movies to create a terrifying psychological landscape of pitfalls both legal and spiritual. 

Local Tour for AISD: The Global Arena

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Trash Talks! with Polly Mermaid and Basurana

Polly Mermaid and Basurana, use comedy and optimism to counter global environmental dilemmas.

National Tour of Cenicienta: A Bilingual Cinderella Story

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Ecobricks with Polly Mermaid

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Once There Were Six Seasons (Interactive)

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National Tour of Petra and the Wolf

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Polly Mermaid: Apocalypse Wow!

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Workshop: The Cucuy Project

A work-in-progress sharing and post-performance discussion of the issues (immigration, ICE, detention, Latino Folklore) that are the foundation of this new work from Glass Half Full Theatre.

Jesus Valles and Gricelda Silva play undocumented Latin American siblings living in Texas in the apartment of their older cousin (Lori Navarrete). In the midst of sweeping ICE raids, the older brother turns to the Latino tradition of telling terrifying stories to children (to make them behave) to train his little sister on tactics to avoid immigration agents. (Stay hidden. Don’t speak. Don’t resist.) Left alone, the siblings apply everything they know about escaping the boogeymen of their imaginations to avoid the very real threat of ICE agents who intend to tear their family apart.

Don Quixote de La Redo

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The Missionary Position (Part 3)

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Petra and The Wolf

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The Missionary Position (Part 2)

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Cenicienta: A Bilingual Cinderella Story

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Simple Sundries - Constance drinking coffee

Simple Sundries

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The Missionary Position (Part One)

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Workshop: Once There Were Six Seasons

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Handmade Bikini Fashion Show: The Unmentionables

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The Orchid Flotilla

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Jake and Tiny site on a crate

Fup Duck

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The Austin Puppet Incident

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