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Blind Summit

BLIND SUMMIT

  
Nationality:    British
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Blind Summit Theatre makes innovative visual Theatre for adults, playing on the interaction between puppets, their operators and the audience. the company's work draws on contemporary pop culture and has real emotional substance. Its skills have been recognised by a series of high-profile collaborators including New York's Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera, where it contributed the puppetry for anthony Minghella's award-winning Madam Butterfly.

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

         Citizen Puppet         1984         Cherevichki         Citizen Puppet         Freetime         Heads, The         Low Life         Madam Butterfly         Martin's Wedding         Meet Fred         Mr China's Son         Pirate Puppetry         Ratcatcher Of Hamelin, The         Spaceman, The         Table, The         Tramping the Boards

Citizen Puppet

Synopsis:
Once upon a time, in a far off place. . .a giant fell out of the sky. The team behind The Table (Fringe First) investigate Jack and the Beanstalk, and uncover tales of gambling, greed, theft and murder.

Notes:
written by Mark Down

1st Produced:
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     05 Aug 2015

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Genre:
puppetry

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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1984

Synopsis:
In a world where even your thoughts are controlled and revolution is just around the corner, Julia and Winston begin a clandestine romance. . .With its predictions of globalisation, surveillance paranoia and control through language, George Orwell's classic futuristic tale is acutely relevant for our time. It is brought to life by the sensational Blind Summit theatre, who have recently received major international profile through their revolutionary work on Anthony Minghella's Olivier award winning Madam Butterfly. This startling new production combines physical theatre, puppetry and music to create a cutting-edge and thought-provoking piece of theatre.

Notes:
adapted from the novel by George Orwell

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Organisations:
Blind Summit Theatre and BaC

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Music:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Cherevichki

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Garsington Opera, Uk     2004

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Citizen Puppet

Synopsis:
It's political. It's verbatim. It's got puppets. Puppet pioneers Blind Summit Theatre collaborate with final year students from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to present a verbatim puppet theatre experiment that delves into the lives of people on the political "fringe", in the build up to the general election. Using verbatim dialogue that expresses views that might otherwise be censored, the puppets reveal unspeakable truths (and lies). Immigration, housing, immigration, tax fraud, immigration... The puppets don't have opinions, they just repeat what they hear.

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Freetime

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Somerset House, London     2004

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Heads, The

Synopsis:
Disembodied heads and shadowy figures emerge from the darkness, conjuring images of dream-like hallucination. their expressions remain still but their emotions transform as they pass before our eyes, leaving the question, is it all real or just in our heads? Blurring imagination and distorting reality like never before, the multi award-winning Blind Summit return with the world premiere of the Heads: a modernist marionette stream of consciousness inspired by cubism and surrealism. Accompanied by an original musical score, Blind Summit journey into the depths of the mind to follow the life of a head. Featuring a trio of artistes, a paper ballerina and a puppet Charlie Chaplin, the Heads promises a cascade of visually hypnotic puppetry where seeing means believing. Take a trip inside your head. Take a trip with the Heads.

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a series of sketches set in the ramshackle bar the Drunken Puppeteer. Here, the Low Life Cabaret unfolds, where puppets and people live side by side,    -

Music:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Low Life

Synopsis:
a series of sketches set in the ramshackle bar the Drunken Puppeteer. Here, the Low Life Cabaret unfolds, where puppets and people live side by side,

Notes:
Inspired by Bukowski's novel, Pulp, this is a series of vignettes about the lives of a group of characters who frequent a seedy downtown bar. By turns amusing and moving, we see into the lives of action-hero plumbers, tiny detectives and lost divas, with the puppeteers providing the narrative thread and exquisitely manipulating their characters.

1st Produced:
BAC Studio 2, London, Eur >>>     21 Jan 2005

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Madam Butterfly

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Lithuanian National Opera And New York Metropolitan Opera 2005

1st Produced:
English National Opera     2005

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1st Published:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Martin's Wedding

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1st Produced:
-     2004

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Meet Fred

Synopsis:
Meet Fred. He's just a regular guy who wants to get on in life: get a job, find a nice girl, settle down. The only problem is that Fred is a puppet, and that's where his dependency issues start. Day to day life is tough when you rely on three other guys being with you at all times. Out for a quiet walk, on a date, in the bathroom, life is never simple for the puppets among us. A "massively entertaining" comedy theatre show, Meet Fred is about an outsider trying to make his mark in a world in which he needs a lot of help. Witty, poignant and full of Fred's badass attitude, it features a mouthy puppet and live performance by actors with and without learning disabilities.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Miners, Ammanford, Wales     26 Feb 2016

Organisations:
hijinx theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre

Parts:
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Mr China's Son

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1st Produced:
Pleasance, London     2002

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pirate Puppetry

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     2003

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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ratcatcher Of Hamelin, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     2005

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Music:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre Puppet

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Spaceman, The

Synopsis:
Bud is heading into space! He's off on a quest to find space monsters. Will he be able to make friends, or are they just too scary?

Notes:
part of Sprint 2001: festival of Physical Visual and Unusual Theatre

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Organisations:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre

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Table, The

Synopsis:
Join them on a visual journey that takes in a ballet of disembodied heads, a story told ntirely by pictures emerging from a briefcase, and a tiny Moses with a cardboard head full of lonely wisdom. Told with few words, beautiful, three-person operated figures, dark humour and flat pack technology. No man is an island. . .but sometimes a puppet can be a table

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Genre:
Bunraku puppetry

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  three performers

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Tramping the Boards

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Genre:
puppetry based theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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