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Sema Kaygusuz writes in response to puppet refugee Little Amal's walk across Europe.

Emilienne Malfatto's story centres on the plight of a Syrian girl in France.

Adapted for stage by Lara Foot and in collaboration with Handspring Puppet Company, Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzees LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K opens for a special preview season next month at Baxter Theatre Centre. Letting us in on their process of working with puppetry over the past four decades, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler of Handspring chat with BroadwayWorld. BWW: To begin with, how did you both get started in puppetry? Basil: I was 9. I found a toy theatre printed in a magazine w...

Share The Baxter Theatre Centre is proud to announce its most ambitious and exciting production in recent years, the world premiere of Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, adapted for the stage by Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company. The highly anticipated co-production between The Baxter, Theater der Welt Düsseldorf 2020, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, debuts from 7 to 19 June 2021, and br...

This June, The Baxter will stage its largest and most illustrious undertaking in the decade.  Adapted from Life and Times of Michael K,  the production will combines puppetry, performance, film and evocative music. The production is adapted by Lara Foot in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company.  The Baxter Theatre Centre is proud to announce its most ambitious and exciting production in recent years, the world premiere of Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee’s Life and Times o...

Lara Foot’s Life and Times of Michael K set for Baxter Theatre By Supplied Share South African theatre legends Sandra Prinsloo and Andrew Buckland take lead in the world premiere of the Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee’s “Life and Times of Michael K”, adapted for the stage by award-winning Lara Foot, in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company. The highly anticipated co-production between The Baxter, Theater der Welt Düsseldorf 2020, Düsseldorfer Schauspie...

A 12-Foot Puppet of a Syrian Girl Will Travel 5,000 Miles This Summer as Part of a Wildly Ambitious Art Project About the Plight of Refugees Little Amal will celebrate her 10th birthday at the V&A museum in London. Good Chance theater company, The Walk, featuring the Little Amal puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company, as seen in London. Photo by Nick Wall, courtesy of Good Chance theater company. A giant puppet of a young Syrian girl will travel nearly 5,000 miles this summer in an interc...

The Ridgefield Playhouse is back, bringing award-winning theater to the big screen. Londons National Theatre in HD will return with three encore in HD screenings as part of the Teed & Brown Broadway & Cabaret Series. With Broadway being closed since March, with no signs of opening much before Summer of 2021, The Playhouse will bring the thrill of world class theater to the community with these encore in HD screenings. Reserve a your socially distanced seat now for these limited capacity perfo...