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Also known as Toy Theater, Paper Theater,
or Juvenile Drama, this unique form of puppetry originated in England around
1811. Throughout its history, Model Theater has attracted many famous
collectors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlie Chaplin, Hans Christian
Anderson, Winston Churchill, and Charles Dickens. Philadelphia’s legendary
city planner Edmund Bacon is also an avid collector of model theaters. In
"Cinderella," he has taken traditional collecting a step further and created
his own delightfully charming production.
Before radio, television, and
cinema, children in Edwardian England spent a great deal of time making and
performing their own toy theater productions. Today, this art form is not very
well known, especially in the United States. This exhibition features six
recreated scenes from Edmund Bacon’s production of Cinderella and the
recorded performance in its entirety.
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