School of Myth Crankie

A pilgrim makes his rites-of-passage journey into the wilderness, and back. A cassette box crankie made for Martin Shaw and the School of Myth to offer thanks for a year of utmost inspiration and creative fuel.

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The Boy in the Dress school residency

Interesting developments are happening in my work as I take my ideas ever more into the field of education. At the end of June, only a few days after the final hand-in for my Puppetry degree, I accompanied some Drama and Theatre in Education students to a primary school in Brighton to add a puppetry element to their devised performance based on David Walliam's absolutely adorable new children's book, The Boy in the Dress.
At the same time as constructing a hyuuuuuuuuge toy theatre-style puppet mounted on a bamboo rod, I ran some arts sessions with the kids to explore what they would wear in order to be as different from normal as possible (Walliam's book dealing with a boy who decides he wants to wear a dress). The quite wonderful drawings produced by the children then became part of the puppet's dress fabric.
The puppet was showcased in the children's performance, and a lovely performance it was too.