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Puppet Festival Weekend
Sunday 19 July

INDIGO MOON
PRESENT
ALICE & THE WHITE RABBIT

Hall, 12.30-1.30pm
For ages 4+
£5

Join Alice on her magical adventure as she chases the White Rabbit back in time. A fantastic spiralling journey into Wonderland!Watch her change size in this dream-like adaptation of the famous Lewis Carroll tale brought to you by Indigo Moon Theatre. The show celebrates different shadow techniques and is inspired by the Gothic architecture and mediaeval times of the original white rabbit statue found in St. Mary’s Church, Beverley, East Yorkshire.

INDIGO MOON
SHADOW PUPPET WORKSHOP

Hall, 1.40-2.15pm
For ages 4+
£3.50

After their performance of Alice & the White Rabbit, join Indigo Moon Theatre for a short participatory shadow theatre techniques workshop. Find out how their show was done and discover different ways of combining light sources, our bodies, cardboard and objects to create exciting shadow effects. There won't be time to make a puppet, but you may just feel the urge to go home and create new shadow worlds out of cornflake boxes!


LEMPEN PUPPET THEATRE
Present
THEATRE FOR ONE

Outside 2.20 - 3.10pm
For ages 7 +
£2

 

A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience! Story One: Riverbed Dive - enjoy a calming journey amidst a busy town centre. Dive to the riverbed without getting wet and find out who lives there. Story two: Dan's Baby - an in-utero private view of the World's first pregnant man. Watch the cute, but rather strange baby as it moves around in the belly.

PUPPETCRAFT WORKSHOP
Learn to Play in the Junk Orchestra

Studio 3.15 - 3.45pm
For ages 3+
£3.50

Learn to play music using our metal junk-instruments and bamboo shakers and then become our orchestra for the start of the show. The metal instruments have been made for us by a blacksmith. You will get to see the whole show

LEMPEN PUPPET THEATRE
Present
THEATRE FOR ONE

Outside 3.30 - 4.15pm
For ages 7 +
£2
As above

MARIACHI BAND
On throughout the day
For all ages
Chris Davies and Garth Williams are unite their various talents and experience to bring to street theatre audiences a combination of humorously beautiful singing arrangements for a couple of quite obviously non-Mexican Mariachi. A giant charro on Ukulele with a hopeful romantic on Guitar, this couple of unlikely Mariachi wild things cajole and serenade el publico, while still competing to be lead songsterino in.. MariachoO!

PUPPETCRAFT
present
The Tin Forest

Hall 4.15 - 5.00pm
For ages 3+
£5
A puppet show based on the book by Helen Ward, illustrated by Wayne Anderson, published by Templar and funded by the Arts Council England. The story centres around an old man who lives in a dreary junkyard, full of other people's broken and unwanted junk.He dreams that one day his world will be full of life, colour and sound. His wish is about to come true...