Category: 2019-2020 Adult Workshops

Participants will gain a sense of how critically important gravity, leverage and fulcrums are to marionettes.   Everyone will make their own simple yet effective cloth marionette and learn how to string their puppet.

In this workshop, participants will each transform an ordinary cardboard box into a miniature theatre, create mini puppet actors, and discover the possibilities of scenic effects and theatrical surprises.

In this workshop participants will construct their own hand puppet “glove”, following Johan’s effective technique.

This workshop will help the budding puppeteer or experienced manipulator hone their artistry by closely examining the technical skills required to bring the puppet to life, through the lens of the television camera.

Join Mike Harding of Applefun Puppetry and learn how to perform a one-person puppet show! Find out how to organize your puppets and props. Discover how to manage an audience by yourself. Decide what type of puppets will work best. Learn to create a story that can be performed by just one person.

April 25^th – 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (1/2 workshop)

In this half day workshop, we will discuss and explore basic ways of creating character voices for various puppets. Through analyzing and playing with sound production, modulation and tonality, we will look for fun ways to create a variety of vocal personas that one can use during actual performance.

• Recommended companion classes:
• Hand and Rod Puppet Manipulation
• Puppetry for Television
• The Art of the Solo Puppet Show

Please note that this counts as a one day class

• Sliding scale discounts from 1 day @ $150 to 10 days @ $105 each
• http://www.torontoschoolofpuppetry.com/fees-discounts/

Instructor:  Brian Webber

Brian is a Toronto based actor, voice artist, director, performance movement consultant and of course, puppeteer. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, he studied Drama at The University of the Witwatersrand and was raised and nurtured as a young actor at the famous Market Theatre. He has worked professionally as an award winning actor since 1990 in theatre, film, television and radio. In 2000 he created Fortune Cookie Theatre Company with partner Sylvaine Strike. Together they have been creating unique and alternative South African theatre since. In Canada, Brian has been in theatre productions such as Clunk Puppet Lab’s “How I Became Invisible”, Caterwaul Theatre’s “Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales” and Theatre Nidana’s “Life Assignment”, among others.

This workshop will take a brief tour of the living traditions of shadow puppetry around the world, and introduce you to contemporary practice with the use of modern technology.