Welcome to the Young Audiences Scotland Links page where you can learn
more about the wealth and range of companies and festivals producing and programming
theatre, puppetry, animation and dance for children and young people
across Scotland.
To find out more about the companies featured below, just click on their logos to visit their own websites.
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Puppet Animation Scotland is dedicated to the advocacy for,
development and celebration of the art forms of puppetry and animation
in Scotland. Puppet Animation Scotland host two annual festivals - a national festival of
puppetry and animation specifically for children around Easter time and
a visual theatre festival called manipulate which takes place in
January.
Now a Young Audiences Scotland partner, The Puppet Animation Festival is the UK's oldest and largest annual
performing arts event for children and young people. From its origins
as a week of 12 shows during the Easter holidays at the Netherbow in
Edinburgh in 1984 the Festival now lasts for over a month presenting
more than 250 performances workshops and films throughout Scotland,
provided by leading companies from the UK Europe and the rest of the
world.
Each year more than 16,000 children young people and their
families enjoy events in their programme.
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Shona Reppe Puppets is based in Fife, Scotland and since 1997 has been dedicated to creating highly visual and accessible small-scale puppet productions for children and their families.
Shona Reppe is the Associate Artist for ATTFife and is supported by the SAC, Catherine Wheels Theatre Co and Puppet Animation Scotland.
Click on the logo to visit the website.
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The Puppet Lab aims to inspire and educate people of all ages through contact with the arts.
Puppetry is an inclusive art form that engages with its audience on a multiplicity of levels. A strong and healthy puppetry sector is a simple and effective way of getting people involved in creativity and performance.
The diverse work of the Puppet Lab takes place anywhere, from site specific theatre in building sites to small community centres and schools. The Puppet Lab tours performances and create events that engage the imaginations of their audiences.
The Puppet Lab constantly experiments with different performance techniques and engage with new artists, writers and designers to create work for Scottish and International touring productions.
Click on the logo to visit their website.
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Reeling & Writhing creates theatre that exercises text and ingenuity, employs music as much as a physical dynamic and finds and embraces human complexity.
Productions are often accompanied by comprehensive education and
community projects, to allow access, and to encourage people of all
ages, colours and sizes to benefit from all that the arts can offer.
Reeling & Writhing is a Glasgow based company founded by joint
artistic directors Katherine Morley and Tim Nunn.
Click on their logo to the left to visit Reeling and Writhing's website.
‘brilliant, ground-breaking theatre’
‘makes you feel the earth move a little under your feet’
Joyce MacMillan, The Scotsman (Standing Wave)
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Starcatchers is a project funded by Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Inspire Fund to develop performing arts for babies and young children aged 0-4 in Scotland, and is part of Imaginate.
Starcatchers is also a partner of the Young Audiences Scotland project.
The Starcatchers project will:
Develop four new artist residencies in venues in Glasgow and Fife
Create at least four new performances for babies and toddlers
Provide training opportunities for artists
Develop a pilot model of training for childcare practitioners and parents
Develop venue staff training
Continue to use action research as a tool to inform and respond to the project and the audience
Create a national network of organisations and individuals engaging with the 0-4 age group
A new website for the project is in development and will be launched at the end of June.
The productions already created by Starcatchers are:
Little Light – created by Andy Manley & Vanessa Rigg with design by Brian Hartley and music by Stephen Deazley
My House – created by Andy Manley with design by Claire Halleran and music by Danny Krass
Peep – created by Heather Fulton, Katy Wilson, Greg Sinclair, Ximena Vengoechea and Ros Sydney
Archaeology – created by Andy Manley & Rosie Gibson in association with Starcatchers
We Dance, wee groove – Brian Hartley in association with Starcatchers
Some of this work is available to tour. For more information, please contact Rhona Matheson at Imaginate on 0131 225 8050 or email
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Click on the the logo to the left for more details.
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Company Chordelia was formed in April 2002 by choreographer and
Artistic Director, Kally Lloyd-Jones. The company creates, produces and
tours performance work as well as evolving projects and teaching in the education and community sectors.
Chordelia aims to produce high calibre performance work which is truly
accessible to a general, as well as an established dance audience.
It
creates theatrical dance work using humour and a wide range of dance
and theatre styles and music. Another of its aims is to attract new
people to dance.
Click on their logo to visit Company Chordelia's
website.
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Edinburgh-based Puppet State
Theatre Company has a busy touring schedule with the enchanting show
The Man Who Planted Trees which premiered in summer 2006 and has been
on the road ever since. With a growing team to support the
performances, the company benefits from a lively collaborative ethos.
Puppet State's roots for twenty years were in writer and puppeteer Richard Medrington's acclaimed one-man shows. In 2006 Richard joined forces with accomplished puppeteers Rick Conte and Ailie Cohen. Barney Strachan built the current show's soundscape and, with Elspeth Murray, is part of the company's skilled technical team. Jennifer Williams
brings administrative ease and Rhona Matheson schedules in such a way
as to keep the company on its toes and yet still sane.
Click on The Man Who Planted Trees image to visit their website.
2004 Gospel Truth for Cats and Dogs
"Medrington's absolute ability to captivate makes this a wholly agreeable 70 minutes.
Tender and refreshing.' Scotsman "
2003 The Interrogation
"One of the few solo shows that I've seen at this year's Fringe in which something feels at stake. Keeps its nerve until the end and leaves us broken." Scotsman
1995-2000 AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh
"He really brings Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Wol to life, spellbinding the children and charming their parents." The Stage
1984-2006 Ivan the Slug
The long-lived, mean-spirited anti-hero whose 30 minute video Ivan the Slug and the New Europe was commissioned by the European Commission in 2003. |
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