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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Skitterbang Island, Little Angel Theatre, London by Nuala Calvi

Little Angel Theatre, London: Making opera accessible for the under-sevens was the considerable challenge for this production, first staged in 2010, which draws on the combined expertise of …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM

Monday, January 20, 2014

Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Little Angel Theatre, London by Nuala Calvi

Little Angel Theatre, London: Joy Haynes, director of Norwich Puppet Theatre, has revamped her production of eight years ago with a greater emphasis on comedy. Read the full review

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Interviews: Little Angel Theatre: creating characters by Nuala Calvi

Little Angel Theatre’s The Night Before Christmas features puppets by Michael Fowkes and his team. Nuala Calvi talks to him about the design and crafting process

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AM

Monday, August 12, 2013

La Tempesta, Queen's Wood, London by Nuala Calvi

Queen's Wood, London: La Tempesta marks two firsts - Scarabeus Aerial Theatre's debut performance for young children, and the Little Angel puppet theatre's first open-air productio…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM

Friday, January 18, 2013

Les Hommes Vides, Soho Theatre, London by Nuala Calvi

Soho Theatre, London: The second show by Invisible Thread - the new puppet company from Faulty Optic's Liz Walker - is a simpler, more humorous affair than her previous work. There is n…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM

The Heads, Soho Theatre, London by Nuala Calvi

Soho Theatre, London: Acclaimed puppetry company Blind Summit included an ingenious segment in its previous show, The Table, in which a series of disembodied faces floated between three pict…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Hand Stories, Barbican, London by Nuala Calvi

Barbican, London: The UK premiere of Chinese puppeteer Yeung Fai's latest show has been feted as one of the highlights of this year's London International Mime Festival, and it…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AM

Monday, May 28, 2012

The Ugly Duckling, Little Angel Theatre, London by Nuala Calvi

Little Angel Theatre, London: Former Little Angel artistic director Christopher Leith chose The Ugly Duckling as his first production in 1993. Now, four revivals and almost 20 years later, i…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AM

Friday, April 20, 2012

Swamp Juice, Soho, London by Nuala Calvi

Soho, London: If you missed Canadian clown/puppeteer Jeff Achtem in Edinburgh last year, here's a reminder of why his strange shadow-puppet menagerie was sold out every night. Read the …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AM

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Anastasia, Pushkin House, London by Nuala Calvi

Pushkin House, London : Ten years after the Russian Revolution, a young woman appears claiming to be the long-lost Duchess Anastasia, sole survivor of the massacre of the Romanovs. The three…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AM

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Devil and Mister Punch, Barbican Pit, London by Nuala Calvi

Barbican Pit, London: Marking the 350th anniversary of our most famous puppet, Improbable go back to Punch's roots as a gleeful, horny, violent vaudevillian who takes as much pleasure i…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AM

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