puppets

Find the magical world of puppetry in Islington

Tragedy, regrets, dark dreams, biscuit tins…

The puppets are here all week with delightful sounding shows for grown-ups.

Potent mix of people and puppets in a kid-friendly Shakespearean show

This week’s cabaret and burlesque recommendations include vegetable puppet theatre, a surly sorcerer, a Prince spectacular, a DIY arts and craft birthday party and a new circus night.

This year’s London International Mime Festival was kickstarted by Teatro Corsario’s La Maldicion de Poe (The Curse of Poe), a macabre and surreal take on the works of the godfather of Gothic horror.

The glut of seasonal theatrical entertainment for children is almost at an end. Ostensibly a morality tale which boils down to “don’t talk to strangers offering sweets, even if those sweets are literally the size of a house”, KneeHigh have gone all Roald Dahl by stuffing their adaptation with macabre overtones, clever contraptions, a larger-than-life villain and precocious children.

One of Shakespeare’s famous tales of sorcery and spirits gets a spellbinding adaptation by Moving Stage Theatre. Stepping under the canvas banner on a barge strung with lights, we begin our journey into the imagination. As the programme notes, marionette theatre demands the audience put …

Greek myths told through the medium of puppetry? Sounds rubbish, doesn’t it? But Occasionally Ovid doesn’t use adorable muppets. These are grotesques (with a hint of Gary Larson) that tell horrible stories of rape and murder under the one-woman control of Helen Ainsworth. First we …

Philip Glass, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, radicalism, puppetry, and, er, farming – the English National Opera seems to have it all in their production of Satyagraha, so drawing the crowds in shouldn’t be a problem. Keeping them there, however, is another matter… Performing an opera …