ANIMATING PRINCIPLES
A puppet show
Set in an experimental art space in the desert, this boardroom melodrama tracks infestations of the bureaucratic within the tenuous infrastructure of the poetic. With reverence for thirty years of collective organising at Watch This Space, we witness a meeting of wonky proportions.
Friday 18th August 2023
Watch This Space
8 Gap Rd
Puppets
Hattie
Digby
Ralph
Louise
Rhonda
Puppet makers
Leonie Brialey
Dan Murphy
Sia Cox
Beth Sometimes
Writers
Gabriel Curtin
Beth Sometimes
Charlie Freedman
Puppeteers
Ruby Princess, Betty Sweetlove, Tam Hanson, Russell Goldflam, Seraphina Newberry, Jorgen Doyle.
“Tuckers”
Jessie Hall, Emma Collard, Saar Amptmeijer, Jacqui Ward, Leonie Brailey
Sound design Vito Lucarelli
Lighting Meret McDonald
Filmed by Jonathan Daw
Edited by Charlie Freedman
Photography by Martina Capurso & Sara Maiorino
Special thanks to: Dallas Gold, Fiona Walsh, Martina Capurso, Selma, Frazer McKinley, Alex Hullah, Hannah Ekin, Carmen Juarez, Emma Hart, Jesse Loughan, Zoe Scoglio, Declan Furber Gillick, Sanchia Scott, Spandana Pillarisetty, Nish Pillarisetty, Steph Cochrane, Georgie Mattingley & Sarah Drinan.
Curated by Beth Sometimes & Charlie Freedman