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<\/a><\/p>\nFollowing on from yesterday’s post about the puppet-based theatre adaptation of Shaun Tan’s picture book, The Red Tree<\/em>, today I discovered that Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s adaptation<\/a> of Shaun’s new book, The Arrival<\/em>, had just finished it’s season in Perth. The production, which The Australian<\/em> gives a ‘The absence of words not only makes the story perfect for puppetry but emphasizes the isolation that is experienced by many people arriving in a new place.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Although The Arrival<\/em> book doesn’t come out until October, there is an online preview<\/a>, in which you can see some of the pages, and read Shaun’s detailed description. It looks wonderful – a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a The Lost Thing<\/em>, another Tan book that was made into puppet theatre by Jigsaw Theatre Company here in Canberra a few years ago, and for which I made puppets<\/a>, has been touring since, and is due to have I also came across some photos at Flickr of a Shaun Tan mural at the Subiaco Library<\/a> in Perth.<\/p>\nrave review<\/del>, uses digital animation, puppetry and acting, and is visual theatre:<\/p>\n
\nsilent graphic novel, arranged and presented rather like a photo album, which can be interpreted rather like a silent film. ‘Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of an anonymous migrant leaving some unfortunate
\ncircumstances in his home country, crossing an ocean to a strange new city, and learning how to live here.’<\/p>\na season in Melbourne<\/del> this November at the Arts Centre.<\/p>\n