Tag Archives: Bristol Festival of Puppetry

Stuffed Puppets: Schicklgruber

Stuffed Puppets: Schicklgruber

September 4th, 2011 by

It is the Führer’s 56th birthday, his downfall is imminent, and unease festers in the air of his Berlin Bunker. Stuffed Puppets’ Neville Tranter portrays Adolf’s subservient valet and takes us through a cavalcade of infamous figures, from Eva Braun to Goering and Goebbels, in the puppets he manipulates. Each is a self-obsessed caricature, manifested in […]

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Ulrike Quade Company, Jo Strømgren Kompani, Nordland Visual Theatre: The Writer

Ulrike Quade Company, Jo Strømgren Kompani, Nordland Visual Theatre: The Writer

September 2nd, 2011 by

Inspired by the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, performer Ulrike Quade presents the audience with the solitary figure of a woman, surround by neatly stacked piles of books, reading and making notes. A gentle blue hue illuminates the space, and she is tiny in comparison to the vast environment – a […]

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