The WP Puppet Theatre will be presenting a classic tale this week at the Rotary Performing Arts Centre.

Pigs In A Canoe will re-tell the story about transporting seven pigs down the Red River to Winnipeg in 1817, of course in the dramatic element of puppetry.

Artistic Director of WP Puppet Theatre Wendy Passmore-Godfrey says there will be many different styles of puppets performing and none of them will have no strings to hold them down.

"There's some beautiful gorgeous shadow puppets, there's hand puppets, there's rod puppets, there's puppets made out of sound objects and then the performer is very much involved in the show, interacting with both the audience and the puppets," she says.

The theme of the numerous stories that will be told during their production will be based on water, which without knowing hits home to Okotoks with the on-going discussions and pleas to get more potable water to Okotoks from Calgary in a proposed pipeline.

Passmore-Godfrey says it's just a coincidence that the show is based on water.

She says it won't be your everyday puppet show and people of all ages will take something away from the performance.

"There's something to enjoy in just the ascetic of puppetry and the magic of puppetry too where we all sort of have a collective imagination, there is that whole suspension of disbelief that is inherit in a puppet show."

The Pigs In A Canoe And Other Watery Stories has four shows left, including one Thursday night, Friday night and two on Saturday night.

Showtimes are at 7 p.m. all three nights and the extra show on Saturday is at 11 a.m.

To get tickets click on the link here.

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