Brighton Puppetry School Summer Intensive

“A brilliant, bonkers week packed with world-class teaching and a well-rounded curriculum covering all we needed and more, resulting in a proper, touching show. Highly recommended.”

Brighton Puppetry's School's annual Summer School Intensive brings together in one place all three core strands of our training – puppetry performance, puppet making and devising your own work – the BPS Summer School is a unique immersion in the art of puppetry. 

Over 6 days (July 15 - 20), the Summer School will create a Puppetry Training Company who work with our tutors to develop a wide range of core skills in the art and craft of puppet theatre. Together, we put these skills to the test to develop an original performance using a variety of puppetry forms and performance styles, culminating in a celebratory public production at the end of the week’s work.

This rich week will offer a mixture of group training and opportunities for personal areas of focus on making, staging, devising and performance including multi-operator, solo work and work on puppetry and voice.

“I also learned so much from the other participants due to the range of skills that you invited in, so picked up even more new knowledge/confidence.”

Sessions during the week will be led by all three of BPS’s core team, whose practices span extensive theatre work, large scale events and live art, and will also include opportunities to eat together and explore Brighton’s brilliant theatre scene.

Days will run 10am-6pm with some additional evenings for making and practising. We will be based for the second year in the inspiring creation spaces at The Spire in East Brighton.

This is an unrivalled opportunity for intensive hands-on training in every aspect of making brilliant puppetry theatre happen and is suitable for all those with a commitment to puppetry, and with some practical experience of either making or performing with puppets.  It is suitable for artsits and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines who want to explore puppetry including visual artists, deisgners, musical performers, teachers, physical theatre performers and, of course, budding puppetry specialists.

“Thanks for such a great week. It’s given me so much fuel.”