Welcome
to Animations Online. We’re glad to
be back – bigger and better than ever!
Animations is a quarterly online magazine run by the Puppet
Centre Trust. It is a voice for contemporary puppetry
and related theatre forms, offering discussion and debate
on recent puppet-theatre events, reviews, and news from the
puppet community and elsewhere. It’s an essential read
for anyone interested in puppetry in all its diverse manifestations.
Animations Online aims to represent the full spectrum of professional
practice, from traditional puppetry to experimental visual
theatre using puppetry or animation.
In this e-dition of Animations, we have a focus on UK festivals,
looking at the many specialist puppetry festivals throughout
the country in 2005, and also reflecting on how puppetry is
faring within more general theatre festivals. So in our festivals
round-up feature Puppets
Puppets Everywhere, you’ll find a look at Bath,
Skipton and other specialist festivals, but also a rear-view
appraisal of puppetry and object theatre at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe 2005, and a preview of the London
International Mime Festival 2006.
In our reviews
section, you’ll find an eclectic mix of puppetry and
visual theatre shows chewed over by our growing team of reviewers,
and in this e-dition’s company
profile, you can find out more about Oily
Cart. The News
and Noticeboard section is the place to read about the
current and future plans of puppeteers and puppet-theatre
companies, and to catch up on other news and events.
We hope you enjoy the re-launched Animations Online –
as always, your feedback is very welcome!
We look forward to hearing your news, views and suggestions
for future content.
Please send your news items and suggestions for editorial
content to
Animations
Online editorial team:
Dorothy Max Prior –
editor
Beccy Smith – project
manager/ PCT director
Penny Francis – contribution
editor/ PCT board representative
Design/webmaster: Gabz
Digital Media
The
views expressed or opinions stated in Animations Online are
those of the writers and not necessarily those of the publisher,
Puppet Centre Trust. Reasonable care has been taken to ensure
that information is correct, but no liability will be accepted
for any errors which may occur.
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