Figures of Speech Theatre's international reputation for innovation and top-quality animated live theater is reflected in this partial list of past presenters:
 
The Kennedy Center for the Arts
Washington, D.C.
The Jim Henson International Puppetry Festival, NYC
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD New Victory Theater, 42nd and Broadway, NYC
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Portland Stage Company, ME
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT Semaine Mondiale de la Marionnette, Quebec, Canada
Expo '86 Vancouver, Canada Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Festival Mondiale de la Marionnette, France The Theatre Project, Baltimore, MD
Foundation Modern Puppet Center, Japan Theatre in a Suitcase Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Touchstone Theatre, Bethlehem, PA
Hill County Arts Foundation, TX Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI
International Festival of Puppet Theater, Mistelbach, Austria Tucson Summer Arts Festival, AZ
Los Angeles Children's Museum, CA Merrimack Repertory Company, Lowell, MA

 

  
 
 
 
"Figures of Speech does absolutely remarkable work with puppets, delighting and mesmerizing adults and children alike with their beautiful crafted and cunningly manipulated figures. The music and movement is also compellingly and strongly performed. The audiences that we had at Trinity were very responsive and warm in their praise of the production and the performers. The artists who make up Figures of Speech are also wonderful people; their interactions with our audience were tremendously positive - a good advertisement for themselves and for us."

- Oscar Eustis, Artistic Director, Trinity Repertory Company,
Providence RI
"World Class theater...awe inspiring... What makes Figures of Speech so special is the metaphorical level of the proceedings... a brilliant piece of theater metaphor."
- Tucson Weekly
"The puppets the Farrells create redefine the form: They are graceful, captivating spirits. Figures of Speech pushes at its art form to see what it's capable of, experimenting with the relationships between puppets and actors, music and movement, current concerns and classic stories. In the complexity and beauty of their work, Figures of Speech reaffirms the wonderfulness of life."
- Maine Times
"It is impossible for me to convey to you my thanks for the gifts you gave us in your recent residency at the Eugene O'Neil Theater Center. I could ask nothing more of either your classes or your performance. Your work is helping stretch the boundaries that Americans perceive as the Puppet Theater."
- B. Roccoberton, Director, Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts,
Eugene O'Neil Theater Center
"I would highly recommend Figures of Speech Theater to other presenters interested in broadening their season and their audiences' horizons."
- C. Jennings-Roggensack, Director of Programs,
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth Center
"An extraordinarily powerful work...and a creation of love. The reviewer can only carry back fragments in an inadequate basket made of words; see this work firsthand for that moment of understanding."
- The Express, Bethlehem, PA
"Figures of Speech is one of the most artistic and unique puppet theaters in our country. This highly creative team has produced some of the most interesting work I've ever seen anywhere. Their company and they themselves represent our country with distinction."
- Allelu Kurten, Secretary General, UNIMA USA