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Puppetry Meets Circus at The Impossible Fair

9 July 2014

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Production and Design

If you went down to the woods today, you’d definitely be in for a big surprise, as lurking among the trees on a Welsh mountaintop were giants and goldfish, mermaids and acrobats, candyfloss and coconuts that sing…

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This spectacle of spectacular characters was part of The Impossible Fair – a puppetry performance designed and performed by RWCMD theatre design students.

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Senior Design Tutor Bettina Reeves says: “This summer term task has been an invigorating and exhausting nine weeks of: designing, decision making, puppetry construction, costume-making, tent-making, set building, painting, puppeteering and performing.”

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“The show has been realised through a collective of creativity, unbridled imaginations, skill, passion, humour and pure hard work. Circus performers endeavour to make the impossible possible – this could also be said of our design students and their collaborators.”