11 stories 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 …
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
