Punch & Judy in Afghanistan
MUSEU DA MARIONETA
4 May at 10pm (Friday) | 5 May at 9.30pm (Saturday)
Concept, direction, puppets and puppeteer: Neville Tranter Creation assistance: Tim Velraeds Photography: Mathias Friedrich, Wim Sitvast Technique: Hand puppets Language: English Time: Aprox. 60 min. For audiences over: M/12
Neville Tranter, considered one of the world’s finest puppeteers, presents “Punch and Judy in Afghanistan”, which preserves the fun and directness of Punch and Judy plays while exploring a more profound theme: what happens when naivety and cynicism meet?
In this new creation, Neville Tranter takes us to Afghanistan and revives the traditional English characters of Punch and Judy, sending them on a hilarious, cynical and twisted adventure. He himself plays the part of Nigel, a puppeteer on a mission to entertain the allied troops. He starts looking for his friend Emile the photographer, who has disappeared in the desert. On the way, he encounters Punch Ben Laden and his blood-thirsty wife...
The interaction between the actor and the puppets is once again incredible, up to a point where it becomes impossible to see who is manipulating who.
“...The figures are a feast for the eyes. ...the way they come to life, how they can change, how you forget that it is Tranter that gives them a voice...”. - Ronny von Wangenheim, Ruhr Nachrichte
BIO
Neville Tranter (1955, Toowoomba, Australia) completed his drama studies with the US director Robert Gist in Queensland in 1976, having also trained with the Billbar Puppet Theatre. He founded the Stuffed Puppet Theatre that same year. After the Stuffed Puppet Theatre had taken part in the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam, in 1978, Neville Tranter moved to the Netherlands, where his visual and emotional adult puppet theatre developed to assume its present form. In his own brutal, ruthless, but poetic way, he confronts the audience with their fears and dreams, urges and desires, personified by what are often life size talking puppets. Combining a minimal decor with sophisticated music, lighting and sound, using the oldest devices of the theatre as well as state of the art technology, solo on stage, with nothing but his puppets plus a number of assistants behind the scenes, Neville Tranter is capable of evoking images that the audience will not forget for a long time. His combination of down to earth humour, deadly seriousness and virtuoso puppetry has already made permanent converts of many who had presumed puppetry had nothing to offer them.
Within his group Stuffed Puppet Neville Tranter developed his typical style of visual theatre with human size puppets.
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