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  • 3 masked actors representing varied elderly demographics across the UK are leaning against a white geometric structure, holding cups in their hands. One actor holds a crutch, and a cat puppet is sat on the floor looking up towards them. They all look warmly towards the camera. In the background is a blue sky with clouds.
  • Kate, a female human sized puppet with red 80s glasses and a tight perm, sits behind a dark brown wooden desk in a badly lit office space. In the background there are some computers and equipment on other desks. Kate is looking directly at the camera.
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2019

Alongside our outreach work continuing into the early part of the year, we began straight away with designing a new show for the Little Angel Theatre, Out of this World.

We had a great time collaborating with Kinetika Arts International, working with the Witham community to build a giant puppet for their carnival, delivering puppetry workshops and parading at different events in their extraordinary giant puppets.

We took Kate out on her first UK tour of Flux, we performed all over the country, and developed education workshops with the Institute of Physics to help encourage teenage girls into STEM careers.

In the Summer we were commissioned by Applause Rural Touring to produce a family show about Arbor (the giant tree puppet), called Arbor the Tree, which we have toured around the UK, going to lots of festivals in Kent and Derby.

We have delivered more workshops at Gunnersbury Museum, this time for primary school children doing their Arts Award Explore, and will be back there in 2020. Christmas saw us revisit an old favourite and stage a new version of A Christmas Carol at the Bridge House Theatre in Warwick, where we kept busy baking gingerbread between shows.


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