Proving the unholy combination of cabaret laughs, top quality puppetry and a late-night vibe is a stylish offer for the Fringe, Blind Summit’s new show returns to their roots – as seen in 2005’s breakthrough show Lowlife – by selling high-class puppetry to entranced Edinburgh crowds. There’s a lot of puppetry about on this year’s Fringe, conjuring […]
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Fellswoop Theatre: Belleville Rendez-vous
August 18th, 2011 by Kitty NewburyIn Belleville Rendez-vous, Fellswoop Theatre, recent graduates from Warwick University, bring Sylvain Chomet’s Academy Award winning animated film to the stage (with the Chomet’s own seal of approval). The stage show starts by placing us in a cabaret watching the Les Triplettes de Belleville jazz trio (double bass, electric guitar, and accordion) – a scruffy-looking bunch of fellows, […]
Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre: Swamp Juice
August 17th, 2011 by Charlotte SmithSwamp 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 […]
MetaMorpho: Devil in the Detail
August 15th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorMetaMorpho is the new company formed by writer and director Toby Wilsher, the co-founder and former director of what, for many years, was England’s leading mask theatre company, Trestle. MetaMorpho’s first production, Devil in the Detail, is a full-mask farce loosely based on a Victorian one-act play, Box and Cox which is itself based on a French ‘vaudeville’, Frisette. […]
Rumen Gavanozov: A Day in November
August 14th, 2011 by Andy RobertsA Day in November is a gentle encounter with a puppet and his puppeteer, Theater Atelie 313’s Rumen Gavanozov. We meet the Old Man, the puppet, who is nearing the end of his life at the ripe old age of a hundred. He’s a strange dithery entity who’s controlled tenderly by Gavanozov, slowly popping and plodding […]