Living-room puppet theatre and bicycle-pulled stage
Bring the little puppet theatre to your guests.
Rust Bucket Productions / Mucky Duck Theatre
Portland artists liz HOWLS and Drew Simpson offer intimate puppet productions designed for groups of roughly 30–40, with birthday and other private-event inquiries explicitly welcomed. Their Mucky Duck repertoire spans hand, rod and marionette puppetry, and their Ten-Speed Theatre project uses a bicycle-pulled puppet stage.
Current location note / listed area: Portland, Oregon
Mudland Playspace has closed, but the freshly retrieved owned page expressly says Mucky Duck continues event bookings. This is not a booking for that former venue. Ask which production and stage format can be supplied; a private bicycle-stage appearance is not automatically included. Confirm age suitability and technical needs. Rust Bucket, Mucky Duck and the founders’ Happy Accident collaboration are consolidated here, not multiple new vendors.
Public-source research · 2026-10-30 · Not vendor-confirmed or independently vetted.
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- Oregon · based
Actual current owned page explicitly offers Portland puppet theatre for private events and identifies local creators liz HOWLS and Drew Simpson. Fresh ordinary HTTP capture confirms continued mobile bookings after Mudland venue closure.