Journey Of Turtle: A puppet show by Lempen Puppet Theatre Company
The Hive music and media centre, Shrewsbury – 17/08/10
This was a tale about how the turtle came to be how it is today, through many different events in the early days of the world…
The puppeteer explained to the audience how she came up with the idea for the story, through telling us how she thought of the story, a puppet of herself sat on the top of “turtle hill†read the story to a puppet of a young boy. This worked really well as the puppeteer was presenting the show but it was almost split between herself and the puppet when it came to telling the story, a way of presenting that I feel should be done more often.
The puppets where amazing… everyone of them was very well made with great movements and ligaments to help them to come even more alive than it seemed possible. A great use of lighting also gave a great effect to the story allowing cut outs of the characters to be placed behind the back scenery where a light stood behind so the puppeteer could could move the characters behind the sheet. This showed silhouettes of each of the characters telling the aspects of the story that would be nearly impossible with the puppets themselves.
There was a good mix of comedy in this tale, both through spoken jokes and just plain laughter when characters did silly things that all the audience members knew would never work.
This is a very good production and if your family wants an enjoyable show to see in the holidays, this is something I would highly recommend.
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