I am artistic director of Rough Magic Theatre, and I have been performing and making puppets since 1999. I have a Drama and Arts Education degree from the great Bretton Hall College, (Yay!). I started the great loves/obsessions of my life in about 1997, (Celebratory Arts, Street Theatre and last but definitely not least Puppetry). I am also an actor, artist, musician and all the other different roles necessary in the field of puppet theatre.
A Huge THANK YOU! and a Happy NEW YEAR to all of my readers and followers. A special BIG thank you to people who have posted comments and I hope you will continue to contribute and read the blog in 2014! Sorry to have gone a bit quiet towards the end of the year – I decided to have a good relax after the Christmas gigs I’ve done rather than get the blog up to date. I will be sharing more details of what I got up to very soon so watch this space….
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 58 trips to carry that many people.
Hi everyone. Apologies if anyone had got the impression that I’ve dropped off the map for the last 3 weeks.
My excuse is the usual one – I’ve been really busy!
I’ve had a couple of shadow puppet workshops in schools. The first one was a little performance of “Edward Lear’s Nonsense” by me as well as a little lecture demo. about different kinds of puppets. This was followed by the kids making their own shadow puppets using Prokofiev’s “Peter & the Wolf” as a theme.
This one was made by me as an example
The second was with Nursery & Reception classes at a school in Wigan where they were having a “Geography Week” and their group was looking at Asia & China and therefore wanted to do shadow puppets. So they had a performance from me of “Jabberwocky!” as well as looking at different places in the world shadow puppets come from. Then we made some Chinese dragon puppets to a design that I’m rather proud of and we did a bit of a dragon dance round the room with the puppets and some music. The kids were very sweet and gave me many compliments on my show and seemed to enjoy their puppets and the dragon procession a lot.
In between these Tim did Rough Magic Theatre’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party walkabout for an Art & Literature festival in Stretford, Manchester which I went along to as well.
I have also been doing a secret shadow puppetry project with another theatre company. I’ve been asked to keep it under wraps as they want it to be a big surprise for the audience but I will be able to tell you all about it soon.
I’m also doing a Christmas Event in Lancaster coming up soon – which I will put up on the “Where You Can See Me” page as soon as I’ve got more details for you.
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