Tag Archives: Suspense Festival 2015

Smoking Apples - In Our Hands

Smoking Apples: In Our Hands

November 13th, 2015 by

Against a backdrop of thick plastic vertical strips, Smoking Apples tell a tale of the fishing industry using performance, visual theatre, and puppetry. Not a single line of dialogue is spoken on stage, although some text is delivered through the media of answering machine messages and radio broadcasts. The main part of the narrative is […]

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Green Ginger - Outpost

Green Ginger: Outpost

November 13th, 2015 by

A remote border crossing is the setting for this new show from the renowned and much admired Green Ginger whose work, like many of the best UK puppetry companies, receives more recognition outside the UK than within our own borders. This production features classic tabletop puppetry and in design comes across as a three-dimensional staged […]

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Wattle and Daub - Tarrare the Freak - Photo by Barney Witts

Wattle & Daub: The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak

November 4th, 2015 by

When a show opens with its title character being dumped on the autopsy slab, it’s a fair bet that things aren’t going to end well. But Wattle & Daub’s brown-aproned sextet of performers – musicians, singers, puppeteers – are determined to have a good time along the way. They take on the apparently true tale […]

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Rouge 28 - Kwaidan

Rouge 28: Kwaidan

November 4th, 2015 by

‘Hello? Is anybody home?’ says the woman as she enters the space, furnished with 1970s dresser, television set, and table. A large dark mirror above the dresser, and wardrobe doors, are significant hints of secrets to be revealed, and a screened area turns out to be a small bedroom, with Japanese paper screens behind. Immediately […]

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Little Angel Youth Theatre - The Jabberwocky

Little Angel Youth Theatre: The Jabberwocky

November 4th, 2015 by

Despite being a show performed by young people, this is a production presented within the main programme of the SUSPENSE adult puppetry festival and is in a sense a triple-distilled piece of theatre. It has been inspired by Steve Tiplady’s production for the Little Angel last year, but this itself was already a radical reworking […]

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