The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The PuppeTree’s production of Sleepy Hollow is done with shadow puppets, and is performed by three professional puppeteers who operate more than 100 shadow puppets designed by Artistic Director, Ann Legunn. Neal Meglathery, of the Parish Player’s and the Montshire Minute, narrates the story in Washington Irving’s words.

Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was the first American work of fiction that achieved acclaim in Europe. Set in New York State’s Hudson Valley 20 years after the Revolutionary War, Sleepy Hollow depicts the peaceful, bucolic life of the early Dutch settlers in that area. Sleepy Hollow is at once a comedy and also a dark tale of what happens when obsessive greed and fear rules someone’s life as they do to the hapless “itinerant pedagogue,” Ichabod Crane.