Puppet Lab

The Puppet Lab (originally the Edinburgh Puppet Company) was founded in 1982 by designer Kim Bergsagel and director Symon Macintyre. The Puppet Lab is an award winning Edinburgh based performance arts charity, which, over twenty years, has earned a great reputation for producing top-quality work, capturing the imagination of varied audiences. Their projects range from children’s puppet shows and workshops, which they tour to schools and theatres throughout the UK, to large-scale community arts projects and pageants, to innovative adult theatre productions. They often target rural areas and inner cities, where children and families tend to have very limited access to the arts.

The Puppet Lab achieved official charity status in 1994 and is now managed by a board of six directors. They may employ anything from two to six freelance designers, puppeteers and other creative specialists at any time. But, many of their projects are only made possible by the energy and enthusiasm of our volunteers.

Past shows include:
*Beauty and the Beast,
*Funnybones (based on the series of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg),
*Each Peach Pear Plum (based on the book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg),
*Forest Creatures (with in school workshop),
*Ghost: Echoes of a Life (an original concept and show by The Puppet Lab [www.ghost-web.org] ),
*EH6 (an original concept and show by The Puppet Lab),
*Rapunzel,
*The Frog Prince,
*The Snow Goose,
*The Magic Circus

Past pageant work:
*The Big Shop (Inverness, Leith, Forres and Nairn [http://www.the-big-shop.org] ),
*War of the Worlds (Inverness),
*Festival of the Sea (Leith, Edinburgh),
*Giants (in Mid Sussex)

External links

* [http://www.puppet-lab.com The Puppet Lab]