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New Year, New Shows!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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I am currently working on a brand new shadow puppet show featuring a number of favourite fairy tales which we are calling “Fairytales of Wit, Wisdom and Witchcraft“. It has it’s own webpage with all the details so do CLICK HERE to take a look. It is particularly suited for schools, libraries, studio theatre and other small spaces.

We are taking bookings now for summer 2025 so do get in touch if you are interested!

Here is the promo video below:

Also coming soon are 3 new episodes of “Al and Kai’s Faboo News”. If you’re not already subscribed to the channel you can find it @faboonews on YouTube or at https://www.faboonews.com/

The first new episode will be airing at 9am on Saturday 15th of February and the next 2 on the following 2 Saturdays, plus keep your eyes peeled for Faboo News extras on Wednesdays.

The new episodes will be on the themes of The Great Outdoors, Medicine and Family,(feeling different).

If you want to get involved with the show you can click the “Faboo Yous” tab on the website or if you’re in the Lancaster area on Saturday Feb 1st Faboo News will be at the Fun Palace event at Lancaster library. The event is 12-4pm and I’ll have more specific times for Faboo News activities soon.

In the meantime if you’d like Faboo News to visit your school or community group you can find out more about Faboo Workshops by clicking HERE.

On another note, I recently found a video from a rehearsal of Theatre Mill’s “Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band” for which I was commissioned to make the shadow puppets:

If you would like to commission some shadow puppets please get in touch and you can find out more about commissions I have made on our commissions page HERE.

Mr. Punch/Kasper is finished!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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For those who are interested in the history of Mr. Punch/Kasper you can CLICK HERE for the WIkipedia entry on Punch & Judy and HERE for more info. on his German cousin Kasper. If you missed the beginning of my process making a body for this puppet head, look back through my blog posts for the first two instalments 🙂

I got this finished just in time for Christmas and luckily it seems to work for my son’s hand size. I used all bits of fabric and beads etc. that I already had knocking about – the only thing I purchased new for it was the sewing thread and replacement needle for the sewing machine when I broke it!

The little bells were purchased years ago and were originally from a set of cheapo Christmas earrings reduced price to 50p for about 4 sets (or something like that).

Please feel free to make a comments or ask any questions about the making process 🙂 Happy New Year everyone! That’s the way to do it!

Also please CLICK HERE to get in touch if you would like to book an existing show or workshop or commission a new puppet or show for the coming year. CLICK HERE to visit the main website to see what we have to offer 🙂

You can also CLICK HERE to visit our Rough Magic Theatre merch shop. This year will be Rough Magic Theatre’s 25 year anniversary – what designs would you like to see in the shop this year?