by abstractgrant | 12 Jun 2016 | mermaid theatre, reviews
This blog has been silent for a while because it’s been a crazy few months, which culminated in us buying a house! One thing I did recently was to attend Mermaid Theatre’s touring production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Eric Carle Favourites....
by abstractgrant | 15 Aug 2015 | appearances, puppets up!, reviews
Last weekend was the eleventh Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival in Almonte, Ontario. It was also the eleventh one that I attended. The highlight act of the festival for me was Big Nazo’s Intergalactic Creature Band. The show was presented as a rock...
by abstractgrant | 28 Jun 2014 | reviews
Last weekend I went to see a puppet show called Against Gravity at the Ottawa Fringe Festival. It was created and performed by Mind of a Snail, a shadow puppet troupe from Vancouver consisting of Jessica Gabriel and Chloé Ziner. They’d contacted me before coming...
by abstractgrant | 12 May 2014 | reviews
The other day I had the pleasure to see the Australian puppet show ERTH’s Dinosaur Zoo at the Ottawa International Children’s Festival. I’m extremely interested in dinosaurs as well as puppets (for many years I had ambitions of being a...
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