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Stephen Mottram

STEPHEN MOTTRAM

  
Nationality:    British
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Stephen Mottram's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Stephen Mottram's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Animata         Children of Lir         Eggbird and Other String Puppet Stories         In Suspension         Organillo         Seed Carriers

Animata

Synopsis:
Six short individual pieces, each a magical little world of its own, demonstrating a range of emotions and theatrical puppet effects, make up this 75 minute show.

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1st Produced:
Buxton: The Opera House    30 Jul 2004

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Children of Lir

Synopsis:
Children of Lir

Notes:
Adapted by Anthea Dobry with Magical illusion by Stephen Mottram

1st Produced:
Oxford: Pegasus Theatre    08 Jul 2003

Organisations:
Platypus Theatre

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Music:
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adaptation

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Eggbird and Other String Puppet Stories

Synopsis:
A Pandoras box of magical surprises with beautiful string puppets, which come to life as soon as they are touched. There is a tender mother bird with her egg, a dancing fly, an eerie circus and a fast moving fairy tale, complete with prince and princess. And you even learn how to make puppets for yourself. This is a delightful hour of drama and fun presented by a master of the art of string puppetry. Length: 1 hour

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1st Produced:
Oxford: Pegasus Theatre    02 Nov 2007

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TYA

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In Suspension

Synopsis:
Animation theatre. This is the puppetry show that is simply regarded as one of the best in the world, at festival after festival, from Finland to Japan, from Russia to Chile. Stephen Mottram creates an entertainment with marionettes aimed at adults. It is filled with beauty an finesse. This is magical theatre, which will stay with you.

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1st Produced:
Bracknell: South Hill Park Arts Centre, Wilde Theatre    27 Sep 1997

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Organillo

Synopsis:
Stephen Mottram's latest creation fuses animation with music and the visual arts. Puppets, automata and illusion are layered together to produce a haunting, sensual journey into primordial waters - a fertile, amniotic world where things wriggle and reproduce. As with his previous, acclaimed shows, In Suspension and The Seed Carriers, this new work features an original soundscore. Inspired by the sound of the organillo - a small South American mechanical street organ, the music by Argentine composer Sebastian Castagna was specially commissioned in collaboration with the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music.

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part of London International Mime Festival 2001. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies. Music by Sebastian Castanga

1st Produced:
ICA, London, UK >>>    26 Jan 2001

Organisations:
Stephen Mottram's Animata

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Music:
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Seed Carriers

Synopsis:
The classic of adult puppetry. Featuring more than 40 carved wooden puppets, creatures which seem to be human. The Seed Carriers is beautiful, haunting and mesmeric. The Seed Carriers are a race of creatures, human in appearance but treated more like plants. Vulnerable and defenseless, they are harvested for the valuable seeds they carry in their bodies. Savage and mesmerising, beautiful and mysterious. The Seed Carriers is a parable of a frightening social order that preys on the powerless yet holds a vision of hope for the future. The Seed Carriers has toured to over 18 countries and has won three international awards.

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London International Mime Festival. The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. In that year the event was called The Cockpit Festival of Mime and Visual Theatre. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1st Produced:
London International Mime Festival    1996

Organisations:
Stephen Mottram's Animata

1st Published:
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Music:
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