When one thinks about puppets, one tends to think Muppets. But if you haven’t seen a Dead Puppet Society production in the past and you plan to head along to The Harbinger at La Boite this month then you should switch your thinking about puppets pre-show. This enthralling production features a plethora of multilayered, complex characters that just happen to be puppet in form.
The Harbinger, which means an ‘omen’ or a ‘herald’ of future goings on, explores storytelling and history-making in a gothic style. Combining puppets, digital projections and live performance the Dead Puppet Society will immerse their audience in this gothic world through music, colours, sounds and movement, to both shock and delight at the same time
Each puppet has been handcrafted for the production and the cast features 17 puppet characters, including a lead puppet that stands 10 feet tall.
The Dead Puppet Society is one of the truly exciting theatre companies around, and after their successful 2010 production, The Timely Death of Victor Blott, The Harbinger is certain to cement this reputation.