Why do animals alter coloration with the seasons? How do snowflakes discover their designs? Why do not pine trees reduce their needles? In a season comprehensive of issues and curiosities, Theatreworks at UCCS invitations audiences of all ages to investigate the marvels of wintertime as a result of the magic of puppetry. 

Subsequent last year’s creation of “The Mitten,” Theatreworks is launching a new tradition — and continuing its popular foray into puppetry and mid-winter storytelling — with this year’s “Snowy Tales.”

The production, working weekend mornings from Dec. 4–19, options many kinds of puppets and a script created by nearby artists to examine the mysteries of winter for audiences of all ages. Theatreworks is excited to be working with Katy Williams of Katy Williams Patterns to carry to existence stories of reality and fable, partaking curious minds each young and outdated this holiday getaway season.

Carrying out Saturdays (9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.) and Sundays (11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.), the production will characteristic pod-design seating, as very well as flooring place close to the stage and all around the theater, to encourage children of all ages to distribute out, wiggle all around, and take pleasure in the present free of charge of seating constraints.

“Snowy Tales” runs for 40 minutes and attributes 3 mythical and scientific explanations for the changes we see in the normal planet every winter season, explained to by way of 3 unique models of puppetry, like bunraku, crankie and blacklight procedures. The performance brings together the artistry of classic puppetry with the frosty appeal of the mid-winter season earth, giving heat, wintery exciting for the entire family members.

According to director and puppet designer Katy Williams, “[Puppetry] is this one of a kind art form…My favorite aspect is bringing a thing to daily life. You get something inanimate and puppeteer it…so that individuals don’t recognize the puppeteer is even there.”

Williams has worked challenging with puppet grasp Cyndi Parr, a band of local puppeteers comprised of Creston Cooper, Kate Hertz, Bekah Irwin, AJ Jones and…