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The Monkey Train
I created the Monkey Train for Playgroup Festival 2012, in September. This is a walkabout performance piece featuring a poem written by Craig Jordan-Baker especially for the show.
Photos by Mary Martin
“Behold, the bedazzling Monkey Train!”
“First is Bertha, a nicotine nanny.
She sucks on fags as fast as air.”
Bertha, the chain-smoking howler monkey
“Our second simian, by the name of Brian,
Is afflicted with the liquid curse!”
“A bald uakari he used to be,
In peruvian tree tops singing and swinging”
Doug, the red-shanked douc langur
“Oh, a snake charmer caught him and taught him to play”
“Tamarins are they, so closely related,
Though one is a lion and one emperor.”
“A roar and a whip, a history complicated,
Once stars at the circus, now past their final encore.”
Emperor Tamarin (Lion tamer)
Golden Lion Tamarin
Bear (star of “Orson and Valentine” hitches along for the ride.
Karis and I at Playgroup.
The Monkey Train - credits:
Puppets and concept - Daisy Jordan
Poem “The Monkey Train” - Craig Jordan-Baker
Assistant puppeteer - Karis Petty
Music by Lucy Clougherty and Mary Martin
Thank you to Jake Spicer, Kerrie Curzon and Kristian White for help with the train!
Punched II at Nightingale Theatre
On July 13th and 14th, I performed with my life sized orang-utan as part of Punched II - a night of adult puppetry created by TouchedTheatre. It featured new performances from Mischa Twitchin (Shunt), Matt Rudkin (Inconvenient Spoof), Grist to the Mill, Howard Sivills and TouchedTheatre. It took place at Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
Falling Puppet for “Latent Heart” Project
I was asked by Brighton artist Kate Genevieve to make a “falling puppet” for her project as artist in residence for the Sackler Centre of consciousness Science. Have a look at the project here: http://cargocollective.com/kategenevieve/Latent-Heart.
The puppet has a simple control consisting of a single bar with stings attached to the head and stomach, with strings looped over the bar connecting the arms and legs, so that the fingers are used to make the limbs flail about to create the effect of falling.
Troubadour Tales - first performance!
On Tuesday night we performed the first two showings of “Troubadour Tales”! It was so exciting and very successful, delighting both adults and children! Here’s a photo showing Jackwynda (Rebecca Santos), Giuseppe (Andy Cresswell) and Jana (me!) onstage at the Hurly Burly. Costumes by Kerrie Curzon.
There are four more shows coming up:
Tues 22nd May at 5:30pm / Tues 22nd at 7:00pm
Sunday 27th May at 5:30pm / Sunday 27th at 7:00pm
To book: http://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/event.aspx?evID=4061
Finished Wynn
Here is Wynn, fully clothed! Doesn’t her dress compliment her skin tone perfectly? It was made by Kerrie Curzon.
The oldest picture of the Pied Piper copied from the glass window of the Market Church in Hamelin Germany (c.1300-1633).
Painting by Augustin von Moersperg (1592)
I found this on The Hermitage blog (very inspiring!)
I am researching medieval maps/drawings for inspiration for the “Troubadour Tales” programme.
The bears were walking about on the roof.
Alfred Quesnay de Beaurepaire, from The fur country, by Jules Verne, Boston, 1874.
(Source: archive.org)
