STEPHEN MOTTRAM’S ANIMATA

SIZE OF COMPANY
2 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small to Medium Scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Director
Stephen Mottram

ARTISTIC POLICY
To find innovative and entertaining ways of presenting puppets, automata and electro-acoustic music together.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘It’s not just Mottram’s exquisite craft but his potent vision which merits our attention.’ The Glasgow Herald (The Seed Carriers)

‘Mottram is a magician who charms his audience with the uncanny.’ La Repubblica (The Seas of Organillo)

‘Stephen Mottram takes the craft of puppetry to a level of sophistication which makes you gasp with the cleverness of it.’ Independent on Sunday (In Suspension)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
The Seas of Organillo Puppets, music and automata in a sensual underwater journey through fertility and birth. Music by Sebastian Castagna. This new version premiered in 2004. (65 mins, no interval, 1 on stage and 2 on the road)

The Seed Carriers A beautiful little world where terrifying things happen. Music by Glyn Perrin. (55 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 2 on the road)

In Suspension Hypnotic marionette sequences with music by Glyn Perrin, Simon Waters and Pete McPhail. (70 mins, no interval, 1 on stage, 2 on the road)

WRAP-AROUND
Workshop The Logic of Movement, for stage professionals and students, uses puppets to examine issues around the perception and meaning of movement in the theatre.  Post show discussions.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Hong Kong (In Suspension)
2007 Belgium, Eire (The Seed Carriers), France, Holland (Seas of Organillo), Italy (In Suspension), Spain (The Seed Carriers)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
On request