ABOUT THE FOOLS

Established in 1991 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Green Fools Theatre is a non-profit, charitable society that creates, performs, and teaches physical theatre arts focusing on masks, puppets, and stilts for diverse audiences locally and internationally.

We utilize a variety of physical theatre, puppet and mask techniques as well as multiple artistic disciplines to tell our original stories, producing puppet shows and physical theatre productions that are literally out of the box inspired by our wondrous and mysterious world. With an eye on the past and hands on tradition, Green Fools Theatre also strives to advance our work and our art form by inventing and engineering new puppetry styles and ways of storytelling as well as innovative artistic processes merging content and form to create new world mythology. Our work is new and contemporary, handcrafted, original, and collaboratively created.

Green Fools Theatre reaches tens of thousands of audience members each year through performances, community events, festivals, and creative training by extensive local touring, as well as some National and International touring.


Legal Mandate

Objectives of Green Fools Theatre Society: To develop and promote the arts of mask, puppetry, and physical performance. The furtherance of this aim will include:

  • • The education of the community on these subjects by providing workshops to schools and community organizations,
  • • The making of public presentations/ performances using these techniques,
  • • And the maintenance of a studio space.

Artistic Mission Statement

Green Fools Theatre is a non-profit charitable society that creates, performs, and teaches physical theatre arts focusing on masks, puppets, and stilts, for diverse audiences internationally and locally.