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We begin with name tags and by the end of the day we’ve made a show together. Gen Butler and I are taking Terrapin’s Shadow Play workshop into regional schools, where we work with a whole class to complete a story about alien invasion, build the shadow props from cereal boxes, and rehearse it with…
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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…
