For Immediate Release: March 1, 2006
Media Contact: Heather Rogers, Mum Puppettheatre, 215.925.8686

Philadelphia, PA - Get ready to blast off to outer space with everyone's favorite Boy & Dog! Mum Puppettheatre will remount one of its first original productions, The Adventures of a Boy and His Dog in Outer Space , April 8 – 30, 2006. The production is suitable for young children as part of Mum Puppettheatre's family series. All performances will be at Mum Puppettheatre, 115 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Tickets are $15 per person, with discounted rates available for student groups and groups of 10 or more. Performances are Saturdays at noon, 2pm & 4pm and Sundays at 2pm & 4pm. Weekday matinees are available! For tickets and information, please call 215-925-7MUM (7686) or log onto www.mumpuppet.org.

Featuring Genevieve Perrier (A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Lady in the Van) and Jered McLenigan (The Lady in the Van), jump back to the future and relive the cliff-hanging exploits of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers! Supersonic saucers, invisible rays and space monsters are all part of a fantastic voyage to forbidden planets at the edge of the universe!A boy and his dog journey through hyper-space and land on an uncharted planet, theirs for the taking... they think!Blast off into the 23 12 century with Mum Puppettheatre for the action-packed, nail-biting Adventures of a Boy and His Dog in Outer Space!

Mum Puppettheatre combines the world of mime, original music and the imagination of the audience to create a thrilling and unique theatre experience. Mum Puppettheatre audiences are never passive, always involved, even after the show! Following each performance, the audience is given a look "behind the scenes" and the opportunity to ask questions about the performance, the puppets and the performers.

The Adventures of a Boy and His Dog in Outer Space has toured Japan, Romania, Austria, Mexico and Canada as well as throughout the United States. The show was featured at the 1989 National Festival of the Puppeteers of America and was awarded the highest honor a North American puppet company can receive, the Citation of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA, the North American chapter of Union Internationale de la Marionnette.

Mum Puppettheatre makes art that moves, creating theatre beyond the scope of human actors, often without words. We integrate the plastic, visual and performing arts by creating stunning, emotionally compelling and breathtakingly beautiful theatre, using puppets, masks and the human body. Our mission is to collaborate with artists of all disciplines and backgrounds to explore the interdisciplinary nature of puppetry, and share the results with people of all ages, independent of language or culture, on stage, on tour and in the classroom.

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