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Gent Puppetbuskersfestival 2010 (Belgium)
Street theatre with a difference. 3 short performances lasting approx. 3 minutes.
Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!)
A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience!
Each performed to only one person at a time, (plus curious onlookers!)
A most intriguing, and then exclusive, theatre experience!
The shows are usually performed as an ensemble of 2 or 3 at the same time, and we can
play up to 3 hours in any one day, each.
play up to 3 hours in any one day, each.
“A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such
loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile.
Sometimes three minutes is all that’s needed!”
Dorothy Max Prior, Animations Online
Full “animations” review: here
Story 1: RIVERBED DIVE
Enjoy a calming journey amidst a busy town centre. Dive to the riverbed without
getting wet and find out who lives there...
Story 2: DAN'S BABY
An in-utero private view of the World's first pregnant man. Watch the cute,
but rather strange baby as it moves around in the belly.
Story 3: THE BELLY BUG
Have a look down the “Belescope” and see the habitat and habits of the belly bug.
Enjoy the dance of life!
Watch out for new stories soon!
Originally these shows were specially produced for German Festivals. But they have now become so popular,
that we offer them all year round for Festivals, Street Festivals, Museums, Foyers etc...
We play these stories in:
English, German, French, Italian, Danish and Finnish.
(Please ask for new language versions. Any language is possible!)
Full “animations” review: here
Story 1: RIVERBED DIVE
Enjoy a calming journey amidst a busy town centre. Dive to the riverbed without
getting wet and find out who lives there...
Story 2: DAN'S BABY
An in-
Story 3: THE BELLY BUG
Have a look down the “Belescope” and see the habitat and habits of the belly bug.
Enjoy the dance of life!
Watch out for new stories soon!
Originally these shows were specially produced for German Festivals. But they have now become so popular,
that we offer them all year round for Festivals, Street Festivals, Museums, Foyers etc...
We play these stories in:
English, German, French, Italian, Danish and Finnish.
(Please ask for new language versions. Any language is possible!)
Festivals visited with these shows:
2011
2011 4th Skipton International Puppet Festival, UK
2011 Bornholm Puppet Festival, Bornholm, DK
2011 Ards Puppet Festival, Newtownards, Northern Ireland, UK
2010
2010 Puppet PowWow Festival, Harlech, Wales
2010 International Puppetbuskersfestival, Gent, Belgium
2010 Puppet Festival, Rossendale, UK
2010 Grassington Festival, UK
2010 5. Int. Marionetten Theater Festival, Tadler, Luxembourg
2009
2009 Incanti Festival, Turin, Italy
2009 Puppet Festival, Rossendale, UK
2009 Festiv’eau 09, Noisy-
2008
2008 30. Puppentheatertage Mistelbach, Austria
2008 10. Elbe-
2008 FEAST by the Lake, Manchester, UK
2008 4. Int. Marionetten Theater Festival Lëtzebuerg, Luxembourg
2007
2007 2nd Skipton International Puppet Festival, Skipton, UK
2007 MintFest, Street Festival, Kendal, UK
2007 Dynamics Puppet Festival, Birmingham, UK
2007 Belfast International Children’s Festival, Belfast, UK
2007 Puppet UP!, Blackpool, UK
2007 Wolfsburger Puppen Festival, Wolfsburg, Germany
2007 Bath International Puppet Festival, Bath, UK
2006
2006 Big Fest, Uxbridge, UK
2006 Redcar Puppet Festival, Redcar, Cleveland, UK
2006 Aberystwith Punch & Judy Festival, Aberystwith, Wales, UK
2006 Wem Puppet Festival, Wem, UK
2006 St Albans Festival, St Albans, UK
2006 Berverly Puppet Festival, Berverley, UK
2005
2005 Über alle Berge Festival, Kassel, Germany
2005 Skipton International Puppet Festival, Skipton, UK
2005 Bottrop Puppet Festival, Bottrop, Germany
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by Dorothy Max Prior at x.trax/Feast, Manchester, June 2008
And so as the day draws to an end, I take one last stroll around the lake, and what do I find? Yes, Lempen Puppet Theatre! They were there all along, how could I have missed them? They are packing up for the day, but very kindly agree on one more for the road. And what a treat! Daniel and Liz Lempen each (individually) create a three-minute show for their audience of one. First up is Dan’s Baby, in which the audience member gets to look down a tube (a bit like an overgrown version of those horn-like things that midwives once used) at the swollen belly of the ‘world’s first pregnant man’. A little pair of muslin curtains inside the ‘abdomen’ is pulled back and there’s the wee baby, a funny little soft pink elf-like thing wriggling and squirming and peeking cheekily out at the observer. A simple idea, the best ones often are, created with such loving care and attention to detail that you just have to smile. Liz Lempen’s Riverbed Drive involves sitting with a giant diver’s helmet on your head. It reminds me of having my hair permed (when I was a bridesmaid once long ago, if you must know). Do hairdressers still have those strange space-helmet contraptions? Anyway, the visor becomes the stage for the ensuing delightful mini shadow-puppetry show. Frolicking fishes, dancing boots, frisky frogs – and ‘the river bed’ is exactly that, a bed. A sweet and lovely little show. Sometimes three minutes is all that’s needed!