The Weeping Tree

Toy theatre performance created entirely out of cardboard and mount board. Performed at the CSSD Student Puppet Festival, London (2010) and the Great Small Works International Toy Theater Festival, New York (2010)

Picture Storytelling Scroll

Traditional picture storytelling scroll detailing the history of the art of picture storytelling from its origins in 6th Century India to its off-shoots in Asia, Europe and America. (2010)

Cantastoria board

Large scale 'cantastoria' (traditional picture storytelling) performance board with rotating, automata-style panels. Created and performed at the Bread and Puppet theatre (2009).

Archaic Animated Stage

A walking automata performance piece with central rotating dial and two 'stages' - sun and moon - which come alive via toy theatre manipulation. (2009)

The William Morris Choir Twins

At last I've dug out an old project which has been half-completed and staring me in the face for the past year now...the paper theatre Twins. Over a year ago I just really wanted to make some 2D children with long, flowing William Morris-fabric gowns on, like earthy wild flower children with the mysteries of the universe in their hearts....
At last I am attempting to do exactly that...to mount the two children onto upright panels and turn the entire surface into a kind of picture storytelling performance, with panels that rotate and little windows that reveal moving pictures, to tell a story without words. Rather like a huge, interactive snakes and ladders board, or treasure map.......