Puppetry Foundation Course (Tuesdays)
21st January - 1st April 2025
For ages 18+
Duration: 10 weeks
This course is designed for absolute beginners, it is open to all those who have always wanted to have a go at puppetry but never had the opportunity to do so. Explore a variety of different puppet forms and learn the basics of puppet manipulation and making over 10 weeks.
This term the course will be delivered in-person and will focus on object theatre, glove puppets, shadow puppetry, table-top puppets and three-person puppets.
The course includes an opportunity for a simple make you can take home with you.
All participants who attend at least 80% of the course will receive a certificate of attendance at the end of the course.
About the Tutor
Oliver Hymans is an award-winning puppetry artist; working internationally across four continents, directing and designing puppetry in theatre, opera, film and music video. His puppets have appeared at London’s Tate Modern, Arcola Theatre, National Gallery, Camden Roundhouse, ICA and Rose Theatre Kingston, Colombia’s National Circus School and South Africa’s Loft Puppet Company. He is an Associate Artist of Little Angel Theatre and has previously directed Emily Rising (“dazzling technical flourishes” – The Guardian). In 2021 he became a QEST Scholar (Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust) and has been awarded funding to specialise in traditional marionette design.
About the Tutor
Alice Bravery is the Senior Workshop Producer and Facilitator for Little Angel Theatre. She trained at York University’s TFTV department and as a puppeteer at the prestigious Curious School of Puppetry under the likes of Sarah Wright, Rene Baker and Mervyn Millar. Alice has worked professionally as an actor, director puppeteer and facilitator within theatre for young audiences for companies including Little Angel Theatre, Polka Theatre, Play Phonics and Punchdrunk Enrichment. For Little Angel Theatre, Alice delivers puppetry workshops for all ages and performs and creates and performs new shows that tour in a variety of different contexts from stages to school classrooms and prisons to birthday parties.
Performances
This is a 10-week course: Tuesdays 21st January – 1st April (no session half term 18th February).