Ronnie Burkett’s new show 10 Days on Earth is coming to Sydney in from 15 February - 3 March, and there is an early bird special of $38 for tickets bought for any performance from 15th to 20th February (a saving of $10 on a normal adult price). The offer expires at 5pm on Friday […]
Category Archive for 'theatre'
Happy New Year
Posted in illustration, portfolio, sculpture, theatre on Jan 1st, 2007
Happy New Year, blog friends. A new year and my 300th post!
Last night I dreamed vividly (and I mean vivid physically!) of giving birth - one of those oops-I-need-to-push, and-I’m-in-the-supermarket-and, oh-my-goodness-here-it-is! births, and then a tiny crumpled gorgeous creature cupped in my hands! (maybe because I had seen the tiny animals on fingers photos?)! You […]
The Moth Tree opens tomorrow night
Posted in canberra, design, illustration, make, portfolio, theatre on Dec 4th, 2006
Over the last while I have been involved in designing and making the set, costumes and puppets for Canberra Youth Theatre’s production, The Moth Tree: An Awesome Adventure.
The Moth Tree is a quest story set in a distant place, in a quiet part
of the world, where the ancient and beautiful Algoma City lies. Since
the […]
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience: Workshop footage
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, theatre, video on Dec 1st, 2006
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience (see previous post) has released two videos of their awesome dinosaur puppetry:
Footage from the workshop
Torosaur v. Utahraptor
And here are a couple of stills from their newsletter.
Steg
in the workshop. if you want an idea of HOW BIG this shows going to be, check out the size of the person working […]
Brian Kolm sent me a note a few weeks ago about Finding Nemo: the Musical, a new musical stage show at
Disney’s Animal Kingdom. (Thanks, Brian!). If you page down you can see photos of some of the large puppets, which seem impressive.
‘Principal characters such as Marlin, Nemo and Dory will be represented by live performers […]
Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience
Posted in puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Aug 2nd, 2006
The Sydney Morning Herald today has the first glimpse on video that I have seen of a mighty puppet production that is going on in Melbourne at the moment: Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience. The creative team, with Sonny Tilders as Head of Creature Design, is making 12 life-size animatronic/puppet dinosaurs, including Tyrannosaurus-Rex, Brachiosaurus […]
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre & Shaun Tan: The Arrival
Posted in art, books, illustration, puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Jul 27th, 2006
Following on from yesterday’s post about the puppet-based theatre adaptation of Shaun Tan’s picture book, The Red Tree, today I discovered that Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s adaptation of Shaun’s new book, The Arrival, had just finished it’s season in Perth. The production, which The Australian gives a rave review, uses digital animation, puppetry and […]
International Puppet Carnival reviews
Posted in puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Jul 8th, 2006
Coffee-cat, Kathleen Azali, has a cool run down on the Melbourne International Puppet Carnival, with photos, and links to a few reviews and video clips. In taking a look at her portfolio, I was interested to see Kathleen had done some making for eRTH. She made Eve, pictured here with barb barnett, in all-mother. And […]
Some large pink snake-skin shoes I made recently for Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production Little Brother Big Sister, design by Imogen Keen. I had fun with the curly thing at the back.
Also at Flickr today is swestdahl’s photoset of images taken at XPT 2006, Xperimental Puppet Theater, which is on this weekend at the Centre for Performing Arts in Atlanta. There is a brief description of the 8 pieces here, and the XPT blog is giving a nice look at the whole process behind the […]