Stuffed Puppet Theatre

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Stuffed Puppet Theatre

Visual and emotional adult puppet theatre

Language: 

English

Contact: 

Artistic director: Neville Tranter

T +31 (0)20 - 645 75 68

E info@stuffedpuppet.nl

I www.stuffedpuppet.nl

Neville Tranter moved to the Netherlands after Stuffed Puppet had taken part in the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam in 1978. In his new homeland his visual and emotional adult puppet theatre developed to assume its present form. In his own brutal, ruthless but poetic way, he confronts the audience with their fears and dreams, urges and desires, personified by what are often life-size talking puppets. A minimal decor, solo on stage, with nothing but his puppets, Neville Tranter is capable of evoking images that the audience will not forget for a long time. His combination of down-to-earth humour, deadly seriousness and virtuoso puppetry has already made permanent converts of many who had presumed that for them, puppetry had nothing to offer.

International: 

Neville Tranter has performed throughout Europe, from Portugal to Norway and from Poland to Ireland. But he was also well received in Japan, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Israel, with productions such as Molière, Schicklgruber alias Adolf Hitler and Vampyr. He has been awarded prizes in various countries, including the FigurentheaterFestival Erlangen prize in Germany, the Best performance at the World Festival of Puppet Art in the Czech Republic, the Sirene d’oro in Italy and the Grand prix of the PIF in Croatia.