Puppetry Lab - Exploring and Devising
12 - 13 October 2024
18+
This two day workshop is for companies and individuals who are interested in creating theatre with puppets.
Welcome to Puppetry Lab, where mistakes are magic
The course will involve:
- Generating ideas and testing them out
- Analysing and playing with different puppetry styles
- Experimenting with restrictions
- Creating a story from a variety of starting points
- Time to work on your own ideas in a safe space with like minded practitioners and an experienced director
Day two will focus on devising for show development, forming detailed characters, creating scenes and dialogue, and discovering transitions. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas, stories, and/or puppets to experiment with. Companies will work together on their existing ideas, and individual participants will form a temporary company for the day, collaborating with like-minded practitioners.
Day two will focus on devising for show development, forming detailed characters, creating scenes and dialogue, and discovering transitions. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas, stories, and/or puppets to experiment with. Companies will work together on their existing ideas, and individual participants will form a temporary company for the day, collaborating with like-minded practitioners.
About the tutor
Charlotte Irwin has been directing and performing with puppets since 2013, and has been a full time member of staff at Little Angel Theatre for over 2 years. Charlotte assisted in the creation of Masterchef Mo and the Missing Cake, and has devised a new suitcase style birthday party show, The Imagination Train. Charlotte is Associate Director on Finding Santa, and is currently devising a new Christmas show. Charlotte runs a wide variety of adult learning sessions and tutors MA Applied Theatre Guildhall students for a term as they create and perform a suitcase style show.
Charlotte has performed around England, and brought a self devised show to Pakistan. She has collaborated with Tangled Feet on their devised pieces, and with Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop during the pandemic, leading online craft and performance workshops for children in the UK and Pakistan.
One place on this course will be offered for free as a bursary.
Please CLICK HERE for more information about how to apply.