The Secret History of the Swedish Cottage April 19, 2011

Created and directed by puppeteers Tom Lee and Matthew Acheson, 'The Secret History of the Swedish Cottage' chronicles the wonderful and impossible journey of a little Swedish cottage that travels from Europe to America and grows up to be the puppet theater that so many have come to know and love. Chronicling the cottage from its creation in the forests of Sweden, and through its tumultuous travels to its current home in Central Park in 1877, join a cast of gnomes, sea creatures and others as they come together to tell this extraordinary fairytale inspired by the real history of the 136-year-old Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park.