Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts and Revolting Rhymes series with Norwich Puppet Theatre
Norwich Puppet Theatre presents a special series of online puppetry performances of Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts and Revolting Rhymes poems.
Artistic Director of Hocus Pocus Theatre, Lucy Enskat has had the privilege of making some of these puppetry films for this wonderful project during lock-down. A welcome opportunity during a difficult time in the arts.
Each of the poems in these two Roald Dahl collections are being performed by a different artist or company working in lockdown. Audiences can look forward to a range of puppetry styles, from shadow theatre, to animation, and from pop-up theatres to rod marionettes.
This year is Norwich Puppet theatre's 40th anniversary and it is a fitting celebration that the venue is supporting artists with this marvellous project based on work by their one time patron Roald Dahl. As a venue that Hocus Pocus Theatre has worked with for many years and long held dear, we are delighted to be involved.
The mini-shows will be premiered on the theatre’s Online Puppet Theatre YouTube channel between August and October, where they will remain to enjoy for free until December 2020. We invite you to show your support by showing up to the first one today: 'Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf', created and performed by Hocus Pocus Theatre's, Lucy Enskat.
The poems are being presented with permission from the Roald Dahl Story Company, and with the support of Arts Council England and The Martin Laing Foundation.
Norwich Puppet Theatre’s website and social media channels will share further announcements about dates and times of the premieres.