Balding, and with spines rather than hair; with deep-set glittering eyes and wrinkly, stretched skin covering a huge, flattened, almost alien face; with claw hands, hunched back, scrawny neck, and a hobbling but alarmingly spry gait – the larger-than-life puppet of Baba Yaga is a real treat. Manipulated with gusto and a treacly thick Scots […]

The Girl with the Iron Claws is the first production from The Wrong Crowd, a collaboration between puppet-maker and designer Rachael Canning and writer and director Hannah Mulder. The influence of a maker at the core of the process is much in evidence in the effortlessly aesthetic set: a striking pair of brass spindly ‘claws’ is […]