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Five great humans joined me the workshop last week to sample the ageless storytelling potential of shadow puppetry. In training to deliver Terrapin’s new series of intergenerational workshops, the participants were thrown in the deep end: I told them a story from my own childhood, and they had two hours to figure out how to…
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After three years as Lead Maker and Head of Workshop at Terrapin Puppet Theatre, I’m handing over the reins. In that time the workshop has gone from a corner of the waterfront rehearsal room to a well equipped unit in the industrial area. I’ve taught, worked with and learned from many makers in the network…
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Our Puppet design and construction workshop wrapped up with some frantic safety pins and flying scraps of fur. There’s never enough time to finish a puppet just the way you’d like, but at least these makers have peered into the bewitching rabbit hole that is puppetry. On the last day everyone took turns to puppeteer…
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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…
