This is a technically accomplished and emotionally moving puppet show for adults and older children, which tells the story of one man’s journey into life with Motor Neurone Disease. A story based on this subject may sound like a hard sell, but the piece has a humour and inventiveness that handles the material in a […]

If you do go along to see this show during the fringe, be sure to get there early and grab a front row seat. On my visit, the show virtually sold out and I found myself sat on the back row with a distinctly obscured view; and this with only three rows of seats in […]

This show certainly does feature some big marionettes: a virtually life-sized Giraffe, an Elephant, and a Lion. The Elephant is actually slightly under life-size and the Lion slightly over, which caused me some inclination to quibble, but they are big and impressive nonetheless. Indeed, the whole visual aspect of the show is well conceived with […]

This production, part of the curated Big in Belgium programme, is dominated by the physical energy and storytelling skills of the three performers onstage who stand on, move around, and hide behind wooden pallets recounting the story of a small town and particularly of a mother and child, her husband and the child’s father. The […]

The Park is a tabletop puppetry performance presented by Puppet Beings Theatre which is beguiling and charming. Five puppeteers in costumes that are all black yet professionally designed manipulate 18-inch fully-articulated rod puppets to present a scene of an old man in a park and his encounters with a dog and children. The only set […]