QUILCENE — String & Shadow Puppet Theater will bring three highly imaginative spectacle performances to the Quilcene Lantern this weekend.

Formed in 2020, the theater group has produced an original show from scratch each year, including writing scripts, building elaborate sets, building sometimes more than 12-foot-tall puppets and rehearsing casts of 10 to 15 performers.

Co-founder and Director Emily McHugh said this year’s spectacle includes a 7½-foot cockroach.

The puppets are built using cardboard and paper mache, and this production made heavy use of textiles, McHugh said.

“I think of puppetry as anything inanimate that you can animate through and give life to through your movement,” McHugh said.

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