Welcome to our annual festival of innovative international
theatre and film.
With exceptional animation and visual theatre of the highest
quality from England, Estonia, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands,
Russia, Scotland and the USA - and a film programme from all global
points in between - we present a festival designed to entertain,
intrigue and inspire.
As well as continuing our successful collaboration with the
Norwich Puppet Theatre, one of the UK's most important and
influential centres of puppetry during the past 40 years, we are
very pleased to welcome the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and the Lochgelly
Centre, Fife, as manipulate venues for the first time.
We are also particularly happy to be collaborating with Summerhall
and Buzz Cut to present this year's opening manipulate cabaret on
Sunday 3 February.
So leave any preconceptions at the door and enter the vibrant and
colourful world of the best of innovative, international visual
theatre and film.
Puppet Animation Scotland
Through Puppet
Animation Scotland's activities we are becoming a leading
international focus for the advancement of the art forms of
puppetry and animation. We nurture world-class Scottish
practitioners and encourage them to create work of the highest
quality and ambition that can be accessed easily by people of all
ages and backgrounds throughout Scotland and the rest of the
world.
Sat 02 Feb - Sat 16 Feb 2013
Manipulate Blog
Big Man Does What?
24/02/2013
It’s worth pondering how Big Man Japan might have been received in its home country. For a fil...
Stuffed and Beaten
13/02/2013
Neville Tranter is a naughty man. In Schicklgruber he presents Hitler as a puppet and succeeds in ma...
After the Infrastructure
12/02/2013
Stark reminders of the power of a theatrical image, both Cloud Eye Control and Physical Theatre Scot...
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