A jubilant and participatory visual feast of a puppet show entertained a family audience on a mild evening at Mesa Park on Sunday. The String and Shadow Puppet Theater, a group from Olympia, Wash., brought their brand of humor, wonder and insight to Bolinas for a second year in a row. Using “copious amounts of cardboard, fabric and papier-mâché,” they told a story about an outer-space adventurer and a tyrannical empress bent on eliminating dark matter—and all the mystery it represents. The show featured austere giants who weave the fabric of space-time, a TV anchor who braves a black hole, and, above, an empty city on a foreign planet that was an organism unto itself. “It was wonderful to see grandmothers howling next to wide-eyed toddlers and everyone in between having a great time,” said Sean Burns, who drove to the event from Inverness Park with his wife, mother and two sons. Jacoba Charles of Petaluma brought her 8-year-old daughter, even though it was the eve of her first day back at school. She called the show “enchanting—a poetic meditation on the importance of preserving mystery in life, and on the universal dangers of autocratic rule.”