I´ve participated in a very important workshop supervised by Marcelo Lafontanta from Lafontana Puppetry Company.

In this workshop we made and explore different puppetry styles, namely:

– Shadow puppetry;

– Toy theatre;

– Punch & Judy;

 

In each style we had the opportunity to build/craft the puppets, props and backgrounds and also to performance with each particular style.

And so, we were able to understand the differences in each style: constrains, performance issues, manipulation controllers, materials, and so on…

 

Building the shadow puppetry project