The Awesome Puppet Company is an emerging voice in the emerging new wave of global puppetry.

Established in Bath, U.K. in 2000, the Company draws its inspiration from the rituals, myths, metaphors and imagery of the Ancient World, as well as those of the Scientific and Digital Age… Spanning the spectrum from Plant and Insect… from Fish to Bird… to Man. A remarkable adventure through the land of the imagination, peopled by truly AWESOME things… open to all…

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The Hunter's Son 

... we exercised a degree of poetic licence to accommodate the vagaries of puppet theatre, production design, and presentation.  It was also important to access symbolic and aesthetic content more dramatically than the original narrative otherwise allowed.  We substituted the rat with a lizard for purposes of aesthetic and thematic continuity.  We wanted to reinforce the notion of the potentially difficult terrain between father-son relationships and we felt the squamate symbolism and associations better served this end... so that when the hunter finally reaches the village in the search for his son, he has reached the nadir of his dark night of the soul and with a powerful flourish of Lear-like remorse gains insight into his previous behaviour.  In so doing he finds the resolve to refute the chief’s bribery and begins to arrest the dissociative implications of the chaos we witnessed at the start.  In so doing he offers a timely chance of restitution for his son to grasp, should the boy so choose...