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.