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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 😊

“My dear Watson, I can see from the tiny pieces of cardboard on your shirt cuff and the metal oxide staining on your left index finger and thumb that you are working on a new show……”

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Before Christmas we started on putting together some puppets for a show trailer for a new Christmas show (for touring libraries, stately homes etc.). We hope to get the trailer finished very soon so we can advertise in time for Christmas 2024 (watch this space).

As to what it is about, I think I will invite you all to give your own educated guesses😉.

I also took it as an opportunity to have a bit of an experiment with the new Indonesian wayang kulit (shadow puppet) chisels. I am thinking that I am not likely to abandon using scalpel blades altogether but probably use a combination of chisels and scalpel. The chisels are certainly useful for creating certain types of cuts and shapes, (probably not faster though – but I had been warned). I have also yet to sort out suitable maintenance/sharpening tools for the chisels when I need them though I have been doing research on the best method and suppliers.

Do leave a comment or a question if you’d like to know more 😊.