Welcome to Animations Online
Animations Online is a specialist web-based magazine for contemporary puppetry and object theatre. We explore the full spectrum of practice, ranging from traditional puppetry to experimental visual theatre, art and film. Explore the site for reviews, festival previews and features, delve into our archive and visit our blog.
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The Animations Online Blog
Visit our blog to read diary style pieces from a variety of writers, including the ever irreverent table-top puppets Boris and Sergey, live animation magic makers The Paper Cinema and a would-be ventriloquist and her puppet Pepito.
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Packing a punch – an interview with Touched Theatre
19. May 2013 - Features
Since 2011, The Nightingale Theatre in Brighton has played host to ‘Punched’, a variety night that showcases puppetry from across Brighton and Hove. Miranda the marionette from Touched Theatre tells all.
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'Occasionally Ovid' – Helen Ainsworth
11. May 2013 - Reviews
There is a lot to like in this raucous one woman show that tears through three myths from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ at break-neck speed using grotesque Gerald Scarfe style hand and body puppets.
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'Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets' – Marcel Dzama
8. May 2013 - Reviews
Object theatre, mask, dance, film and sculpture combine in this unusual show, which has the game of chess as its central theme.
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The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
1. May 2013 - Reviews
A feel good comedy show featuring space travel and Scottish rock, delivered with aplomb by a pair of grey woolly socks in a tartan booth.
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'Nice' – Folded Feather
28. April 2013 - Reviews
A menagerie of puppets feature during this bizarre adventure down the pipe of a fantastical machine, including a life size whacky professor and a little girl carved from smooth wood.
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'Platero – Travels with a Donkey' – Mike Maran Productions and Marjanishvili Theatre
27. April 2013 - Reviews
A charming production for adults based on the stories by the late Nobel prize winning poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, this production charts the travels of a little marionette donkey and his narrator owner.
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'My Life with Puppets' – Ronnie Le Drew
26. April 2013 - Reviews
If you've watched television at any point during the last forty years or so, you'll know Ronnie Le Drew. From his infamous turn as Zippy from Rainbow, to various characters from Roger and the Rottentrolls, he has quite literally done it all.
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'The Girl with the Iron Claws' – The Wrong Crowd
23. April 2013 - Reviews
A Norwegian fairytale for adults only, this production tells its dark story using beautifully made puppets and fantastic lighting design.
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'The Girl With No Heart' – Sparkle and Dark
20. April 2013 - Reviews
A powerful piece inspired by child victims’ accounts of the atomic bombings in Japan at the end of the Second World War, using shadows, masks on hands, half-body puppets with human legs and paper cranes of all sizes.
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'Noggin the Nog' – Third Party Productions
13. April 2013 - Reviews
A reimagining of a classic TV series aimed at families, this production mixes live action, rod and glove puppetry and animation to create the weird and wonderful Land of Nog.
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