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Low Life
Photograph courtesy Blind Summit Theatre
Blind summit theatre

Drama, Physical/visual theatre, Puppetry

SIZE OF COMPANY
6 people (cast 4, production 2)

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale (up to 300 seats)  
Minimum stage area 5m deep x 7m wide

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Directors
Nick Barnes
Mark Down

ARTISTIC POLICY
Blind Summit Theatre explores the relationship between puppets and their puppeteers to make new work for the theatre which excites adult audiences. In a time when new media are proliferating Blind Summit sees puppetry as a radical part of the reinvention of theatre in our time.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'If puppetry is ever going to be the next rock ’n roll these animators may well be its frontmen.' Time Out

'To the plangent strains of Jacques Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas, the puppet truly took on a life of its own as, alone in the dark, he drank himself - and us - into magical oblivion.' Metro

'Blind Summit’s wonderful puppets, mad, bad and beautiful in equal measure.' The Guardian

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Low Life A gin-soaked cabaret of puppets and people inspired by poems and short stories of Charles Bukowski. Beautiful, funny and poetic. (60 mins, 4 on stage, 6 on the road, some strong language, suitable for audiences 15+ years)

Pirate Puppetry A unique piece of ‘invisible puppetry theatre’: puppets descend on an unsuspecting audience in a public space and create mayhem while their puppeteers try to control them. (15–20 mins, 4 performers, 6 on the road, suitable for all ages)

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Call of the Wild Adaptation with puppetry, shadows, actors and singers for middle- to large-scale theatres, aimed at teenage and family audiences. Currently in development.

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Workshops in Bunraku puppetry and object animation and post-show discussions.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Lithuania, USA (Madam Butterfly), France (Low Life), Germany (The Spaceman).

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Low Life and Pirate Puppetry available from January 2007.