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Fairy tale Shadow Puppets Take Shape

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Here’s the progress so far on the new “Fairytales of Wit, Wisdom and Witchcraft” show.

I have been making all these shadow puppets out of repurposed cereal and pizza boxes. Firstly to show what is possible to achieve with free materials accessible to most people (including kids) and secondly to be more environmentally friendly.

I also intend to produce templates for simple versions of these puppets that people will be able to buy (further down the line). Please let me know if you would be interested in these.  You can subscribe to the newsletter to get all of my updates from the blog via email and be sure not to miss anything.

Frog Prince story puppets: Princess able to catch and play with a ball…
Upset/disgusted princess face variation…
Frog with princess
Both princess puppets (princess 2 has an inverted hand to pick up frog)
The princess’s father the king…
Young handsome prince (de-frogged)…
Goldilocks puppets:
Prototypes for a front facing puppet with changing expressions.
Creating a third puppet with articulated legs

Goldilocks: Mouth transformation test

If you would like to book the show for your school, library or studio theatre space or find out more, please check out the show page on our website (including trailer) by clicking HERE.

We are pencilling in tour dates from June 2025 onwards and don’t forget, we also do shadow puppet making workshops.

Also, if you would like to ask any questions or leave any comments, please do and I’ll be happy to answer.

Shadow Puppetry shows and workshops!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Hi everybody, it’s that time of year again when many schools start to think about booking shadow puppetry shows and workshops for their Light and Shadow Topic or a show for a halloween treat.

This is something we have a lot of experience with, check out this great video of happy kids playing with their Halloween themed shadow puppets below:

We are also happy to fit in with books and topics that you may be working on such as when we did a fantastic workshop based on Ted Hughes “The Iron Man”. This was a more structured workshop with the children working in groups to create a scene from the story:

(CLICK HERE to read my previous post about this workshop)

For more information on the sorts of shows we have available for Halloween, you can check out our Halloween events page HERE or if you want to find out more about workshops for schools please click HERE for our Education Work page on the main Rough Magic Theatre website.

CLICK HERE to contact us for a booking or enquiry 😊