Baba Shakespeare is a new production to be staged by Tower Theatre Company at the Arcola Tent from Tuesday 17th April - Wednesday 2nd May 2012 as part of the RSC Open Stages, which has been described as the UK's biggest amateur theatre project.

The script for Baba Shakespeare has been written by director Emmeline Winterbotham and is derived from the screenplay of the 1965 Merchant Ivory film Shakespeare Wallah, a true story that follows the family of actress Felicity Kendal as they travel around post-colonial India as a troupe of Shakespeare players.



Thursday, 19 January 2012

Inside the Arcola Tent

Today Emma and I paid a visit to the Arcola Tent, which is where Baba Shakespeare will be performed in the spring.  Emma and I will be operating the monkey marionettes, and we wanted to get a feel for the space and what we can achieve within it.  It was exciting to get in there and see what it is like.  We took Junkie Monkey so that we could experiment with a puppet and try out some initial ideas for the performance.




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