Blind Summit Theatre
www.blindsummit.com
| Performed by: | Mark Down, Sean Garrat, Laura Caldow |
| Pupped construction and design: | Nick Barnes |
| Direction: | Mark Down |
The Table is a unique and cathartic homage to the art of puppetry, inspired by Beckett, the Bible and IKEA. Its main character, Moses, is a cantankerous 2 foot high puppet with a cardboard head who lives on a table. He is worked in the traditional Japanese style of Bunraku puppetry by three excellent artists. And he’s got a problem. All he ever gets asked to perform are fairy tales for children’s birthday parties, and he’s fed up with it. He wants to prove he is a serious puppet. He’s an artist! So tonight, for one show only, the table is his and he is going to perform an epic story: the 12 final hours of the life of Moses of the Bible. Little by little, our amusing table-top philosopher explains the nature of puppetry, has disagreements with his puppeteers, shows off his dancing skills, analyses the Bible and has an unfortunate mishap with an invisible running machine… And along the way he gains a theatre full of fans who then watch his impetuous attempts to rescue his show from chaos.
Produced by the Blind Summit Theatre company, considered a true maestro and pioneer in the art of puppetry both in the UK and abroad, The Table has won the acclaim of critics and audiences around the world since its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011, where it won one of the prizes. This production has been singled out as Best Show in the Five Best Modern Puppetry Shows published by The Daily Telegraph. Regarding its visit to Titirimundi Festival in Segovia last May, critic Artezblai Manuel Sesma wrote: ‘The excellent skills of the three visible puppeteers, the expressiveness of the puppet, the story that is told, and the exceptional staging make The Table a simple yet great show, intellectual and moving, funny and profound, physical and imaginative’.
Blind Summit Theatre is one of the great innovators in modern puppetry. Their work surpasses the boundaries of puppetry both in their own productions (1984, Low Life, Pirate Puppetry) and in their frequent international collaborations (Bergenz Festival, Complicite, Barbican, Royal Opera House, MET Opera). Their work places puppetry at centre stage and successfully defends the role of puppetry in adult theatre. They have brought to life a singing dog in Simon McBurney’s A Dog’s Heart, a three year old boy in Anthony Minghella’s Madam Butterfly and even an 18 metre high fireworks-spewing Voldemort in Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony.
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