Shadow puppets for Jigsaw’s Wendy
These are some of the shadow puppets I made recently for Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production of Wendy, a new musical re-imagining of J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. These and others can be seen in more detail in my portfolio set. The play had a public season at the Street Theatre and performances in schools, and received a good review in the Canberra Times.
One of the Peter Pan puppets is above. There were two crocodiles. This big one needed a handle as well as the jaw rod.
This is John flying and some set elements for the flying sequence.
Unfortunately I didn’t get photos of the puppets in action, because they look so much more attractive and bright on screen. The only screen shot I have is this blurry one of the Marauders Rock mermaid scene, taken without proper lighting behind. I like the water in particular.
They look fantastic! I love the mermaid scene, it’s very beautiful. What did you use for the colours? Lighting gel… or cellophane…?
I wish I could see them in action! They look fabulous! There Seems to be so much puppetry going on in Australia- I’m impressed at the variety, too!
Thank you both very much. Na, it’s just cellophane sticky taped on, but it seemed to do the trick!
Zizilina, I’m not sure about the quantity of puppetry here, but I do think we have a culture that, because it is not beholden to any tradition, borrows from them all, using whatever seems to work!
Ah, so I was right! It looks fab, and cellophane always seems to me to be a good source of colour. (Cheap too!)
These are gorgeous, indeed. I’d love to see them in motion. Do you ever put things on YouTube?
Thanks, Mary. Very rarely! I should get into that.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Hil121