Puppetry Workshop 

Moulded Theatre’s puppetry workshop developed from our own interest in puppetry and one of our first productions, Edith’s Big Adventure.

The workshop includes basic puppetry manipulation and how to convey emotion, followed by the opportunity to plan and make your own puppet from a variety of materials commonly found in household recycling, as well as some extra special bits and bobs! Then the puppets and puppeteers take part in a fun challenge.

The aim of the workshop is to facilitate logical and creative thinking in the context of designing, selecting and constructing a puppet with moveable functionality; then applying these skills in the puppetry control challenge. 

Here is some feedback Moulded received about our puppet workshop from the Staff and Students at Barton Peveril College:

Moulded Theatre, Natalie, Soniya & Emily, in front of the array of puppets designed and made by Staff and Students of Barton Peveril College and Moulded Theatre, during our puppetry workshop.

Moulded Theatre’s puppet Edith pats Bruno the dog after training him to jump through the hoop! Edith is a rod puppet and can be operated by one or two puppeteers.

The workshop was really great fun and inventive, it made us all feel really creative. 

The workshop was great fun, especially coming up with characters and making our own puppets. Thank you for a really fun time! 

We really enjoyed making our own rasta man. It was actually worth coming to college :)

Enjoyed making the crocodile/rat thing. 

A lot of fun, thank you. 

Was really enjoyable. Lots to do, thank you.

Better than lessons, so thumbs up.

Should of devised a performance.

Really enjoyed learning how to act with the puppets and making a puppet was awesome.

OK, i'm not great at the sticking thing but I REALLY enjoyed using skills I NEVER usually use. The creative writing element really useful for English! And didn't the time go quickly!? 

As an outsider (college photographer), the workshop looked fun, creative and a huge laugh