T H E D U T C H O N T O U R - Theater Instituut Nederland

Language
English
Contact
Artistic director: Neville Tranter
T +31 (0)20 645 7568
E info@stuffedpuppet.nl
I www.stuffedpuppet.nl
Stuffed Puppet
Theatre /
Visual and emotional
Neville Tranter
adult puppet theatre
Neville Tranter moved to the Netherlands after Stuffed Puppet had taken part in the Festival of
Fools in Amsterdam in 1978. In his new homeland his visual and emotional adult puppet theatre
developed to assume its present form. In his own brutal, ruthless but poetic way, he confronts
the audience with their fears and dreams, urges and desires, personified by what are often
life-size talking puppets. A minimal decor, solo on stage, with nothing but his puppets, Neville
Tranter is capable of evoking images that the audience will not forget for a long time. His combination
of down-to-earth humour, deadly seriousness and virtuoso puppetry has already made
permanent converts of many who had presumed that for them, puppetry had nothing to offer.
International
Neville Tranter has performed throughout Europe, from Portugal to Norway and from Poland to
Ireland. But he was also well received in Japan, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Israel, with
productions such as Molière, Schicklgruber alias Adolf Hitler and Vampyr. He has been awarded
prizes in various countries, including the FigurentheaterFestival Erlangen prize in Germany, the
Best performance at the World Festival of Puppet Art in the Czech Republic, the Sirene d’oro in
Italy and the Grand prix of the PIF in Croatia.
Schicklgruber, alias Adolf Hitler
Photo: Wim Sitvast
The Dutch on tour Physical, site-specific and object theatre
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