Skip the Budgie at Flickr has a cool photoset of action images taken during a performance of the Pickled Image show, The Chatterbox. There is more information, pictures and storyboard illustrations here on their site. They make and use various styles of puppetry and puppets. One of the styles I like is where […]
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I was delighted to find Liz Christie’s cool Flickr photoset sequence of Men of Steel in full flight at the recent Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Men of Steel made its debut at Art for Puppet’s Sake, the production that showcased the work of the Victorian College of the Arts inaugural class of postgraduate puppetry students in […]
This is one of a cool set of images of FaultyOptic’s production, Horsehead, or The Rise & Fall of the Back & Front, taken by Chris Daniel. FaultyOptic is based in London, and is described as ‘haunting visual theatre, automated sets, strange animated figures, cronked inventions and macabre humour’ and ’surreal adult puppetry at its […]
In January the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta put on a puppet production called Anne Frank: Within and Without that looks as if it would have been amazing. An article in the New York Times, describes how the writer and director, Bobby Box
“tackles his subject by having two actresses manipulate the doll-like puppets, which […]
Searls Puppetry looks as if they do cool productions. They specialize in object theatre, and have just been recognized by the Jim Henson Foundation with a grant in support of their newest production: OM: objects in motion coming in the northern summer. Collete Searls is a stage director who specializes in puppetry for adult audiences.
(photo […]
There are only 3 days left to catch all-mother, a play presented by barb barnett’s serious theatre and eRTH Visual and Physical at the Street Theatre in Canberra. I’m seeing the last performance, and looking forward to it.
“all-mother combines rigging and harness technology with puppetry, movement and music to re-imagine and re-tell the Lilith myth. […]
Mummenschanz, the renowned Swiss mime and object theatre group, will perform the world premiere of their new program, 3×11, a 33 year retrospective of their work, at the Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay on 31st January 2006. The season runs till 11th February, 2006. Afterwards they tour Australia, New Zealand, and South America, where on […]
The Theft of Sita
Posted in books, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Nov 23rd, 2005
(Photograph: Julian Crouch)
PuppetVision recently referred to The Modern Shadow where Michelle Zacharia is exploring combining Indonesian Wayang Golek puppetry and video and digital production techniques, and thinking about western influences in Indonesia. It reminded me of a production here called The Theft of Sita which was commissioned by the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts and […]
Due to popular demand the National Museum of Australia has scheduled some extra performances of Gondwana by the Sydney company erth Visual and Physical Inc. You’ll have to be quick to book, as the last performances are this coming weekend.
The puppets are fantastic, as you might expect from erth, and with Bryony Anderson on the […]
Hidden Corners Theatre: See Beneath
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Jun 21st, 2005
The bunraku-style puppets I was working on are for production called ‘See Beneath’, being presented by Hidden Corners Theatre, Canberra’s award-winning theatre company of young carers. This is how the puppets turned out:
‘See Beneath’ is a play by and about young people dealing with disability in their families, directed by Robin Davidson and barb barnett, […]