This fast paced and fun workshop will examine the relationships between puppet, performer and audience, combining technical exercises with creative challenges. As a group we explore Handspring’s principals of puppetry as a jumping off point for a whole world of performing objects, actor-puppet relationships, and expressions of poetic metaphor. Working with both solo and multi operator puppets we look at what puppetry can do as an art form, and also examine what it can teach us about our creative process as a whole!

Robin is a puppeteer and physical performer, who has been working professionally in the theatre and film world for nearly 20 years. His approach to puppetry combines his Lecoq based movement training with extensive work with Handspring Puppet Company as part of the original West End cast of War Horse, and later as a workshop facilitator for the company. From there he has honed his skills with collaborations in film, TV and Theatre in the UK.