The Tin Forest details
·The show is for everyone aged 3 and up. It is being enjoyed by entire primary schools (aged 3 to 12), public audiences aged 3 to 83 (but we are sure older people will also enjoy it!)
· Show lasts about 45 minutes.
· Audience up to 180.
· Included in the fee is good quality publicity for you to overprint: 350 leaflets and 30 A4 posters.
· Performed by two puppeteers and a musician playing hurdy gurdy, dulcimer, harp and piles of rubbish.
· The show has no words so will work well for an audience aged 3 and up, including deaf, hard of hearing and non-English speaking people.
· Space for our stage: at least 19ft wide x 12ft deep x 10ft high (5.8m x 3.7m x 3m).
· The show can be performed on a raised stage or in a flat-floored venue.
· Blackout required… or at least a grey-out.
· We provide all our own lighting and sound.
· Three electric sockets required, 13 amps each.
· Set-up time: at least 1½ hours.
· Pack-up: at least 1 hour.

· Workshop
· For up to 20 participants, 7 years old and above, with family groups welcome.... at a push we can manage 30 on the workshop.
· Lasts 1½ hours.
· Make animated sculptures from discarded materials to display after the show and to take home, and learn to play metal junk-instruments (that have been made by a blacksmith) to play an overture for the show.
· Participants will be asked to bring easy to find recycled materials.

· Accommodation may be required: B+B for 3 singles. Hospitality with friends of your venue is fine.

The following credits MUST be included in all publicity:

PuppetCraft presents
The Tin Forest
a puppet show
based on the book by Helen Ward, illustrated by Wayne Anderson, published by Templar.
For everyone.... all the way down to 3 year olds.

Funded by The Arts Council England.

To down load a high resolution picture click here.

If you use the drawing you must include: Drawing © Wayne Anderson

To download a drawing for the workshop click here

To download a high resolution photo click on photo

For booking and enquiries please contact
John Roberts, artistic director
PuppetCraft, 1 Venton Oak Cottages, Dartington, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6DW.
Tel: 01803 867778 Email: john@puppetcraft.co.uk

PuppetCraft is one of Britain's most acclaimed touring puppet troupes.
Since 1990 PuppetCraft has been performing both nationally and internationally in village halls, theatres, arts centres, schools and festivals. It has built a reputation as a friendly, highly professional company delivering inventive, quality puppet-theatre to any venue.

Puppetcraft is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales: number 6440632