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seeking the exceptional | Bristol Festival of Puppetry 2013 9 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
This preview was written for Animations Online A wealth of international puppetry acts will flood into Bristol at the end of August, as the city’s biennial Festival of Puppetry begins. It promises to ...
Guardian | go grass free 26 Jul 2013 | 09:31 pm
This feature was written for the Guardian Lionel Smith isn’t anti-grass, nor is he immune to the smell of it when freshly cut. But he believes it’s high time we rethought the lawn. The concept is mo...
Review | Bank On It 28 Jun 2013 | 08:13 pm
This review was written for the Londonist Through the doors of an ordinary looking building in Haggerston, an extraordinary bank resides. On the surface, all seems as grey and uninteresting as you’d e...
Review | Princess Mononoke 19 Jun 2013 | 08:03 pm
This review was written for Animations Online An epic tale told with ambition and enthusiasm, ‘Princess Mononoke’ features a menagerie of oversized wild beasts and mythical creatures, brought to life ...
Guardian | growth not guns 16 Jun 2013 | 02:40 am
This feature was written for the Guardian For people who don’t play computer games – myself included – it’s easy to assume all virtual reality has to offer is the dubious opportunity to wield a weapon...
Review | Blair’s Children 16 Jun 2013 | 02:10 am
This review was written for the Londonist Five people walk into a café and deliver five separate monologues about how their lives have turned out. Their voices interweave but never become a conversati...
Interview | the directors # 3 | Joy Haynes 16 Jun 2013 | 02:05 am
This feature was written for Animations Online In the final interview in a series of three ahead of a Puppet Centre masterclass on directing for puppetry, Joy Haynes of Norwich Puppet Theatre discusse...
Interview | the directors #2 | Liz Walker 16 Jun 2013 | 02:00 am
This feature was written for Animations Online In the second of three interviews ahead of a Puppet Centre masterclass on directing for puppetry, puppeteer turned director Liz Walker of Invisible Thr...
Interview | the directors # 1 | Mervyn Millar 14 Jun 2013 | 08:39 pm
This feature was written for Animations Online In the first of three interviews ahead of a Puppet Centre masterclass on directing for puppetry, Mervyn Millar – perhaps most famous for directing Hand...
(rhyming) Review | The Trench 14 Jun 2013 | 08:28 pm
This review was written for the Londonist Five musically minded men take on the task Of using compact rhythmic, drumming, rolling verse To tell a tale of trenches, battles, bombs and worse In a 2012 F...
