Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Jan 4th, 2007
Two video clips at YouTube of that cool puppet in Berlin that I blogged about in October!
Puppet Run
Titere Andante
Still no clue as to who the performer group is.
Posted in canberra, performance art, street theatre on Nov 14th, 2006
The Fool Factory’s Sunflower gives a unusually taciturn glance at the Walk against Warming a couple of weekends ago. I also love this one of the Rat Patrol at Cutflat.
I’m missing blogging! Heaps of things to blog about and no time to do it, is the story. I figure as far as making work [...]
Posted in craft, design, fun, make, materials, performance art, portfolio, street theatre, video on Oct 21st, 2006
Making these fun hats was another of my Floriade projects. I enjoyed making them and was really happy with how they turned out. They were made for the performance group The Bunch of Posers, who in this guise are called Acappellacino.
To make them I started out by making the cup shape upside down, with a [...]
Posted in canberra, design, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 18th, 2006
Over the last few months most of my time has been taken up with a number of projects to do with Floriade, Canberra’s month-long annual spring flower festival, which finished last weekend. My biggest scale project was taking workshops with a group of kids from the Warehouse Circus, collaboratively designing and helping them to [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 6th, 2006
(photo credit: irlLordy, used with permission - thanks!)
irlLordy took a great sequence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) of photos of a cool puppet entertaining the queue on the steps of the Reichstag in Berlin recently. I really like the aethetic, and it’s interesting to see a bunraku-style puppet being operated on such long rods. The [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 29th, 2006
I’ve been keeping a list of Royal de Luxe links since I first became aware of them last June. This weekend I believe The Sultan’s Elephant is in Calais, and then in La Havre at the end of October (26 - 29th).
The producers who brought The Sultan’s Elephant to London in June this year [...]
Posted in street art, street theatre on Aug 3rd, 2006
(photo by Dream Puppets: Lady MacBeth)
This next Sunday the ABC TV Sunday Arts program will be presenting a segment on the work of Julia
Davis’s Macbeth, and her involvement with Dream Puppets. The programme is aired nationally and starts at 4.00PM this Sunday, 6th of August.
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jul 18th, 2006
As I hoped out loud, Andrew at PuppetVision took some great photos of Sau’rus when they were in Toronto.There are some cool preparation shots there, as well as ones of the performance. Thanks, Andrew. I particularly like this one as a picture, because the letters on the shop suggest “Sau’rus”. Its a bit like that [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Jul 8th, 2006
Royal de Luxe’s four-day street spectacle, The Sultan’s Elephant, is in Antwerp, Belgium, this weekend. Here is a link back to my collected of links about them, to which I will be adding the following:
Official Anterp site (via)
Flickr photo pool for the Sultan’s Elephant in Antwerp
Ongoing Royal de Luxe delicious links, as I find [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jun 24th, 2006
(photo by digitaldust)
A few weeks ago I was impressed by a number of photos at Flickr showing some fabulous big dinousaur walkabout puppets at the Paradise Gardens festival in London. This was Sau’rus, an act by the Dutch theatre group, Close-Act Street Theatre. Close-Act was formed in 1991 and ‘has since grown to a professional [...]