The Puppet Lab was founded in 1982 by designer Kim Bergsagel and director Symon Macintyre. Based in Edinburgh The Puppet Lab is a performance arts charity. Their projects range from children’s puppet shows and workshops, which they tour to schools and theatres throughout the UK, to large-scale community arts projects and pageants, to innovative adult theatre productions. They often target rural areas and inner cities, where children and families tend to have very limited access to the arts.
The Puppet Lab achieved official charity status in 1994 and is now managed by a board of six directors. They may employ anything from two to six freelance designers, puppeteers and other creative specialists at any time.
Past shows include:
- Beauty and the Beast,
- Funnybones (based on the series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg),
- Each Peach Pear Plum (based on the book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg),
- Forest Creatures (with in school workshop),
The Frog Princess
- The Magic Circus
Past pageant work:
- The Big Shop (Inverness, Leith, Forres and Nairn ),
- War of the Worlds (Inverness),
- Festival of the Sea (Leith, Edinburgh),
- Giants (in Mid Sussex)
Famous quotes containing the word puppet:
“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)