{"id":846,"date":"2009-04-06T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2009-04-06T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T08:06:21","slug":"fantastic-new-his-dark-materials-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/04\/06\/fantastic-new-his-dark-materials-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic new His Dark Materials<\/i> puppets!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I noticed a flurry of searches on my blog recently for puppets from Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials<\/em><\/a> but only realized that there was a new production by Blind Summit Theatre<\/a> when I read on Stitches and Glue<\/a> that Paul Vincett was one of the makers of the new puppets, along with the puppet designer Nick Barnes, and Billy Achilleos.<\/p>\n

I’m really excited by the exquisite aesthetic of these puppets. Take a look at the showreel <\/a>slide show or the album of stills<\/a>. They suggest the essence of the creatures with the simplest of lines – just beautiful!<\/p>\n

Blind Summit Theatre was founded in 1997 by Nick Barnes<\/a> and Mark Down<\/a> to make new plays with puppets for adult audiences. His Dark Materials<\/em> is on at Birmingham Rep: 13th March – 18th April; and then at the West Yorkshire Playhouse : 28th May – 20th June.<\/p>\n

There is some great puppet making information<\/a> on the Blind Summit site, too, though not specifically for this kind of puppet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed a flurry of searches on my blog recently for puppets from Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials but only realized that there was a new production by Blind Summit Theatre when I read on Stitches and Glue that Paul Vincett was one of the makers of the new puppets, along with the puppet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,20,107,4,14,33],"tags":[1014,228,229,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-make","category-materials","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-theatre","tag-blind-summit-theatre","tag-his-dark-materials","tag-philip-pullman","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-dE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}