Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in books, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Jun 14th, 2005
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in Perth, WA, is presenting ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ in June and July.
‘An enchanting story where anything is possible if you invest it with
enough belief and love. Based on the classic children’s story by
Marjory Williams, (and adapted by Greg Lissaman) the velveteen rabbit is the much cherished toy of a
young boy. To [...]
Posted in automata, creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre, theatre on Jun 11th, 2005
I’m blown away by the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe’s amazing street parade, ‘The Visit of the Sultan of India Atop His Time-Travelling Elephant’, which took place in Nantes last week, in honour of the centenary of Jules Verne’s death. A rocket landed just outside the cathedral in place Saint Pierre, and [...]
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, street theatre, theatre on May 18th, 2005
I wish I could be in Melbourne this weekend for Snuff Puppets‘ latest production, Nyet Nyet’s Picnic, which starts on Friday at Birrarung Marr on the banks of the Yarra.
In a collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous artists, Nyet Nyet’s Picnic is a contemporary work that revives ancient stories from the dreamtime, and uses giant puppets, [...]
Posted in books, creatures, design, make, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Apr 18th, 2005
By all accounts the two-part 6 hour stage adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials is absolutely stunning. I think it has had two seasons at the National Theatre in London: one in 2003, and a second that finished earlier this month.
The daemons, physical manifestations of the human soul in the shape of animals [...]
Posted in puppetry, puppets, review, theatre on Apr 8th, 2005
The Ten Days on the Island Festival in Tasmania, which started on April 1st, is drawing to a close. Terrapin Theatre Company, which is one of Australia’s oldest puppetry companies, presented a stage adaptation of The Garden of Paradise, a little known tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was commissioned by the festival to mark [...]
‘Muckheap’ by Melbourne’s Polyglot Puppet Theatre was another favourite of mine at One Van in January. Described as ‘a galloping tale of two people who try to clean out their shed for hard rubbish day but find everything too interesting or full of memories to throw out’, it also weaves in a different version [...]
Posted in books, design, illustration, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Mar 13th, 2005
For me Jonathon Oxlade was the stand-out performance of the One Van puppetry festival in late January. His short performance during the Saturday night cabaret was exciting, bizarre, gross, and hilarious. Jonathon works as a freelance theatre designer, illustrator and puppeteer.
According to his bio, among many other things, he created The Red Tree installation — [...]
Posted in books, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Feb 13th, 2005
By chance I discovered that the British puppetry company Puppetcraft have done a puppet show of The Mousehole Cat, one of the books by Nicola Bayley that I mentioned in my previous post. These are their carved wooden puppets of the legendary Tom Bawcock and his cat,
who ’saved the villagers of Mousehole from starvation [...]
If you are in Sydney, don’t miss Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production of ‘The Lost Thing’ this week. Its part of the Sydney Festival, and is playing at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre, from Jan 18 - 22. Its great news that the play will also be being presented by the Canberra Theatre Centre in March.
In December [...]
Posted in creatures, make, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Oct 3rd, 2004
Here are some more photos of the puppet build for Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production of ‘The lost thing’. The making crew were Imogen Keen and Hilary Talbot, with help from Catherine Prosser and Marie-Martine Ferrari, and designs by Richard Jeziorny based on Shaun Tan’s book ‘The Lost Thing’.
The cat :: carved out of foam, and [...]