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Carnival Bentham coming soon!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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I recently attended the Carnival Bentham AGM and have the marvellous news that it is happening again this year on Saturday 4th of June 2016 so put it in your diaries everyone.

We have of course participated ourselves in this event every year so far with our now famous “Pony 3000” act (seen at Lancashire Encounter last year) and Rough Magic Theatre’s Tim Austin was the official Bentham storyteller for last year’s theme of Tales of the Riverbank.

After much wracking of brains we have a tentative theme for the carnival of decorated umbrellas! I say tentative because last year I advertised the theme on this blog and then it was changed at the next meeting! This theme does seem apt for Bentham’s usual weather though!

This reminded me of a tweet I saw a while back of a Magritte inspired walkabout act, so I looked them up again and they are from an Australian company called La Galerie Mobile and they also have other walkabouts that make interesting use of umbrellas (see below)

 

I was also reminded of this little scene from the James Bond film “Live and let Die” though hopefully we can manage without the ‘orrible murder before-hand!

So those are a few ideas to get people’s minds working.

Start thinking creative umbrella-wise Bentham folks!

Shadow Puppet Suitcase Theatre 2 – A Riveting Commission!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Hi everybody, I know once again I’ve gone quiet for ages.  But this was not because not much has been going on, (far from it).

I have been very busy working on a second Shadow Puppet Suitcase Theatre for a fellow puppetry professional.  They have asked to remain anonymous for now as they are working on a secret show!

Below are photo’s of the stages converting a vintage suitcase into a suitcase theatre like mine, though you will notice that as the suitcase is a different shape.  The screen is more of a landscape/widescreen kind of shape whereas mine is squarish.

As with my original suitcase theatre is was a joint effort between myself and Rough Magic Theatre technical expert Eddie Knowles.  If you’re an avid reader of my blog you may remember that Eddie worked on creating the “Pony 3000” horse automaton out of junk materials with me as well.

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Don’t forget my two Shadow Puppet Suitcase shows “Jabberwocky!” and “Edward Lear’s Nonsense” are available to book for your event CLICK HERE to contact me.