Created by Buzzcut Productions Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Buzzcut Productions combines cameras, puppets, diorama sets and a remarkably peculiar story to create a spellbinding, though uncanny, depiction of rural English suburbia. Emerging from a similar world to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Coraline, this Wonderland is, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bark Bark
The Manipulate Festival, Scotland's international festival of animation, film, movement, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 17th season. This year's festival will run from February 1st - 11th across multiple physical and online venues. The full programme can be found here. Next week, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate Festival 2024
https://youtu.be/_xAgcZyEg34 Created by Mochinosha Puppet Company Review by Christian Maddock ★★★★ In a world where digital animation dominates the world of children’s entertainment, handcrafted animation carries a special level of humanity. In ‘Shadow Kingdom’, Mochinosha Puppet Company delivers a thoughtful and funny show through the magic of paper puppets. The story centres around the freedom of … Continue reading Shadow Kingdom – Assembly Roxy
Based on MR James' Story Directed by Adam Lenson ★★★★★ Death is just around the corner for those who fall foul of Mr Karswell and his peculiar book. One such man, John Harrington, falls to his death from a tree in the middle of the night, but no one thinks anything suspicious of this. That … Continue reading Casting the Runes – Pleasance Courtyard: Above
Produced by Vision Mechanics ★★★★★ A journalist, mother, gallery owner, wife, writer, child, and saviour of the world from giant reptiles – there’s a lot to take in during The Fantastic Life of Minnie Rubinski, which translates the words and thoughts of one woman’s life, now living with dementia, and turn these glinting pieces of their … Continue reading The Fantastic Life of Minnie Rubinksi – Fruitmarket
Created, Directed and Performed by Jiří Zeman and Martina Maurič Lazar Music by Milko Lazar ★★★★★ Things are never what they appear, and this evening – Ljubljana Puppet Theatre’s Moč (The Power) makes this quite clear. We’re caught off-guard by an overly zealous Jiří Zeman, who offers an introduction of sorts to the production. A playful, seven … Continue reading Moč (The Power) – Summerhall
Music by Long Green Jaws Produced by Róisín O'Brien ★★★★ If you’ve grown up on the coast, you’ll understand Into The Long Green Jaws within moments. And it isn’t even the tinkling metal fish, or the re-purposed razor clams, nor even the nautical paraphernalia and more obvious elements: it’s the tangibility of the sound.Long Green Jaws, a performance … Continue reading Into the Long Green Jaws – Fruitmarket
The Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh's international festival of animation film, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 16th season. This year's festival will run from February 2nd - 12th across multiple physical and online venues in and around Edinburgh. In two weeks’ time, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most extensive international … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate 2023
https://youtu.be/UxxnL26CGpY Written by Ross Mackay Directed by Jordan Blackwood ★★★★★ Rifling through the pages of a well-loved story: there’s nothing better, is there? Seeking fortunes, solving mysteries, standing toe-to-toe with Dark Lords, and saving distant lands – the storybook is a gateway of limitless potential, and for some, it’s a lifeline, a friend. And where … Continue reading Treasure Island – The Lanternhouse, Cumbernauld
Written by Derek Bond Directed by Derek Bond and Laura Cubitt ★★★★ Hear ye, hear ye, all brave knights and heroes assemble for the finest adventure of their lives! Come face to face with some of folklore's most magnificently majestic monsters and spectacular beasts to grace the earth with their presence. Join Dave (Ben Galpin) … Continue reading Dragons and Mythical Beasts – Underbelly
