Puppetry For Performers with Caroline Partridge

Join this exciting puppetry workshop with the award-winning Caroline Partridge

About the workshop

This intensive one-day workshop is designed for performers of all kinds, and of all levels, who want to expand their understanding of performance and puppetry. Participants will learn the core principles of puppetry, focusing on energy and presence, and the notion of the puppeteer as a conduit rather than a manipulator.

The course includes: hands-on work with objects and puppets, communicating with, and with-out words, the power of play, trusting our impulses and listening with our whole bodies. We’ll challenge ideas about connection to the puppet, and explore the dynamics of performer and object in relation to one another in major and minor roles, and as equals.

We’ll explore some of the key similarities and differences between puppetry and clowning and establish how a clear understanding of puppetry can dramatically enhance your performance practice.

About the teacher
Caroline Partridge is an Olivier nominated actress and puppeteer who has been teaching puppetry for the last 25 years. She has worked as a stage and screen actress, puppeteer, devisor, improviser, storyteller and maker for several large and small scale companies including: Improbable, The English National Opera, The Metropolitan Opera House, The LA Opera, Wildworks, Little Bulb, The Little Angel Theatre, The National Theatre Studio, Soho Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, M Shed, Artsdepot, The Red Room, Desperate Men and Clerkin Works. 

Her television work includes series regular in the CBeebies BAFTA award winning series ‘Gigglebiz’, Polly Granger in the Amazon Pash series ‘Pan Tau’, and most recently Barbara Stubbs in series 4 of CBBC's Jamie Johnson FC. She can currently be seen on the big screen in the Searchlight Pictures comedy The Roses, alongside Olivia Coleman, and has just finished reprising her role in the West End as Aunty Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker with Olivier award winning theatre company Little Bulb.

Caroline has been titting about all her life but was only formally diagnosed as a clown last year and is consequently currently working on her own clown show ‘Caroline Partridge: Shit Robot’ which she hopes to take to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.