‘There are monsters everywhere!’ gleefully intones Mr Bunk into a colour changing torch uplighting his face at the top of his show. Mr Bunk, aka Jeff Achtem, is a properly charming performer, with whom it’s a pleasure to spend an hour. As he leaps, runs, trips and laughs around the stage operating his homemade shadow […]

Bunk Puppets, 2011 Total Theatre Award winners, have returned to the Fringe this year with another devilishly ingenious production. Slapdash Galaxy is Jeff Atchem’s usual brand of one-man makeshift shadow puppet extravaganza, but this time we are told the story of two brothers who are forced to go on a fantastical journey into outer space. And, as […]

Swamp Juice offers shadow puppetry to tickle the senses of adults and children alike. It’s a jiggling, gobbling journey of rolling eyes, wagging chins, monsters with wiry hair and pincer-like attacks. The show is also always watchable on the two levels of projected and live movement. It opens up the workings of the puppetry, so one […]