Our ✨final✨SOUP Night speaker of the series is 🥁🥁🥁 puppeteer, actor & singer Louise Gold! Louise puppeteered and did voice acting for programmes such as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and The Dark Crystal. She was also a founder of, and lead puppeteer for, the television show Spitting Image from 1984 to 1986.

Mike Shepherd talks about a lifetime of using puppets in theatre!

Andrew Kim from Thingumajig Theatre is this week’s SOUP night speaker! The title of his talk is “Puppets Playing Out(side)” Why Andrew Kim loves Giant Puppets and Masquerades!

From Sketchbook to Stage: Creating the Impossible
with puppetry director and designer Toby Olié

Adébayo Bolaji speaks about developing new ways to express creative ideas. The talk is called SIGNS & IMPROVISATION.

For our second soup night of the season 🥣, we invite poet Shirley May to share her experience as Founder and Artistic Director of Young Identity, a Manchester-based literature and performance arts charity whose mission is to nurture, develop and champion the voices and creativity of diverse young people through literature, writing and performance. The title of May’s talk is ‘16 years to NPO*’

🥣 Curious School of Puppetry’s Thursday SOUP nights are BACK! 🥣

Join us at our new home in St Barnabas Hall (Dalston) every Thursday for the next 8 weeks!

Our inaugural speaker is 🥁🥁🥁 Sue Buckmaster, artistic director of Theatre-Rites!!

The title of Sue’s talk is What sort of Puppetry Practitioner do you want to be?