BareBones Halloween 2011 DVDA Fistful of Dirt: How the Death Was Won DVD (2011)

Performed at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul and inspired by Spaghetti Western film, the “seven stages of grief”, and Japanese “tengu” spirits, featuring a giant rotating Book of the Dead,  a herd of wild ghost horses, and an extraordinary funeral pyre.

Carnetheria DVD by BareBonesCarnetheria DVD (2010)

Performed at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul and inspired by Ray Bradbury’s novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, featuring an incredible Ghost Train, an aerial bakery, a 25′ djinn puppet, and the startling consequences of outsourcing supposed security services to a robot force.

Devoured Tray CardDevoured DVD (2009)

Performed at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul and inspired by both Egyptian mythology and Little Red Riding Hood, featuring an “immortal” Julia Childs instructing how to properly prepare a dead body for the afterlife, a stunning aerial moth metamorphoses, and the 36-piece “Bollywood Arkestra”.

Fleeced DVD JacketFleeced: You Reap What You Sow DVD (2008)

Performed at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul and based on the Greek myth of  Jason and the Argonauts, featuring a giant three-headed hydra marionette, an incredible pair of fire-breathing stilted oxen, and the legendary “Fire Battle”.

The Uninvited GuestThe Uninvited Guest DVD (2006)

Performed at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul and based loosely on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death, featuring a great surprise, four hysterical hand-puppet interludes, and a giant illuminated whale.

Petrafied-Disc-GraphicPetrafied: A Puppet Fairytale DVD (2001)

Performed at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis and featuring a royal cast of six gigantic skeletons, a 3,600 square-foot disappearing watery vortex, and a shockingly ravenous disembodied baby head!

Songs from the Boneyard CD JacketSongs From the Boneyard: Music From BareBones Halloween Shows 1996-2002 CD

A special “studio retrospective” of original songs from the “Classical Period” of the BareBones Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza during which productions were staged variously at Minnehaha Falls and Theodore Wirth parks in Minneapolis and music and lyrics were composed, written, and arranged by Jessica Farrell (now in NC), Crystalline Ruby Muse (now in VT), and Mark “Marky Baby” Russo (now in WI).