Puppet makers, meet puppets: Day 1 of an Intensive Workshop at Terrapin. Over the next five weeks I’ll be guiding six promising makers who have skills in a range of areas – painting, shoe-making, carving, feltwork – but haven’t had a lot of exposure to the obscure and miscellaneous skill-set that is puppetmaking. Using Jon Klassen’s classic book I Want My Hat Back as a starting point, we’ll be working through the entire process of puppet design and construction from script interrogation to performance, with a focus on character and movement. Today we broke the script apart to find the why of the story and the crux of each character: what features and movements will best reveal their nature and serve the tale? Once you get started, it’s surprising how much you can find in a line like ‘No, I haven’t seen your hat’.