I’ve been back a few days now, and finding it a bit hard to get my head around where to start in relating the great experience that was the National Puppetry Summit. Firstly, perhaps, a thank you and congratulations to Annie Forbes, the Summit Director and Artistic Director of Terrapin Puppet Theatre in Hobart, and all her team that orgainised it all. I hope you are all kicking back a little now it is all over!

The Summit was held in the Salamanca Arts Centre, and there were some puppets on display in the foyer. I don’t know the makers and shows they all came from, but someone told me the ones above were made by Axel Axelrad, the maker of Ossie Ostrich, and that they were never used, because the company they were made for folded before the production went on stage. Possibly this was the demise of the Tasmanian Puppet Theatre in 1980?

(My attendence at the puppetry summit was supported by the ACT Government)