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The Stuffed Puppet Theatre (Amsterdam/Netherlands)
Mathilde
Puppet theatre in easy to understand English
World premiere
Company
The Australian Neville Tranter is one of the world’s best-known puppeteers. He founded The Stuffed Puppet Theatre in 1976. His works always feature life-size moving-mouth puppets and manage to be poetic, irreverent, virtuous and radical at the same time. Combined with black humour and finely drawn characters, they also balance dramatic force with enchanting subtlety.
Performance
Frail and dishevelled, the 102-year-old Mathilde grasps onto a handrail and wearily does her exercises. It’s high time to go, especially as a party is being organised in her honour at the old people’s home. But Mathilde has more important things on her mind: she is waiting for a sign from another time. Her former lover made a promise and she won’t go until he keeps it. The triptych Mathilde, of which parts 1 and 2 are being shown together for the first time, portrays Mathilde and people that are connected to her. It is a story about hope and remembrance, about the fear of dying, about letting go, and about talking as a proof of existence, as a way of assuring oneself of one’s strengths and power of imagination.
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Director, Costumes: Neville Tranter
Co-director: Tim Velraeds
Puppeteers: Neville Tranter, Wim Sitvast
When: Nov. 1st 2012, 7.00 & 9.00 p.m.
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Entrance fee: Price category B
Length: 40 min
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Picture: Wim Sitvast, Christine Oudart
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More information:
www.stuffedpuppet.nl
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The Stuffed Puppet Theatre (Amsterdam/Netherlands)
Punch & Judy in Afghanistan
Puppet theatre in English with German surtitles
Performance
Puppets, war and terrorism – this play is a highly charged, politically incorrect farce that lurches between madness and reality, emotional depth and chaos. Camouflage nets and poppy flowers adorn the stage as puppet-master Nigel is employed to liven up exhausted allied troops in Afghanistan so that they regain their desire to fight. But as the camel makes off with his assistant in the direction of the cave stronghold Tora Bora, Nigel sets off to look for them in the war zone. Along for the ride are the Egyptian crocodile, and, of course, the foul-mouthed Punch, alias Bin Laden, along with his bloodthirsty wife Judy. With biting sarcasm, scathing punchlines and the odd, sinister That’s the way to do it!, there is a guaranteed unhappy ending.
A production commissioned by Kulturhauptstadt Linz 09 in co-production with FIDENA
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Director, Costumes, Puppeteer: Neville Tranter
Co-director: Tim Velraeds
Surtitles: SprachSPIEL (Lisa Wegner)
When: Nov. 2nd 2012, 9.00 p.m. / Nov. 3rd 2012, 7.00 p.m.
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Entrance fee: Price category A
Length: 60 min
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Supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Picture: Wim Sitvast
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