Puppets take centre stage
Kirsty Lang reports on how puppets have entered the theatrical mainstream, with the Handspring company, who worked on War Horse, and film director Joe Wright.
Kirsty Lang reports on how puppets have entered the theatrical mainstream.
She speaks to Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of the Handspring Company, who made the puppets for the international theatre hit War Horse and to Joe Wright, director of the films Atonment and Hanna, whose new cinema version of Anna Karenina features puppets in a central role.
Wright says all his films are influenced by growing up in a puppet theatre - the Little Angel Theatre in London. Kirsty pays a visit and meets Joe's mother, Lyndie Wright, who founded the theatre in 1961 with her husband John Wright. She also discovers an unexpected link between the Little Angel and the award-winning War Horse puppets.
Producer Philippa Ritchie.
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