Puppetry: A Small but Mighty Industry

Choose your character, find a stage and immerse yourself in a world where anything is possible. That is what people in puppetry have been doing for years in an industry that may be small, but is spectacularly mighty. Artists in the sector can be found in small pockets across the west, in studios and warehouses surrounded by paper mache and a hoard of puppets that stare you down while sitting on their high shelves upon entry.

Puppet maker and director Hannah Southfield works with Bath Carnival and theatres such as The Egg in Somerset, Bristol Old Vic and the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre. She said after spending a lot of time making a puppet in a room on your own, when you watch a puppeteer work with it, 'it's like real life magic'.Ms Southfield started creating puppets in 2018 after a career change from teaching psychology at the University of Bath. At the time she was also mentored by Nick Barnes who did all of the puppetry for the Life of Pi theatre show.Jamie Bellinger Ms Southfield was mentored early on in her career by the puppet maker for the Life of Pi theatre show. 'Once I give my puppets a name I start treating them like they're alive. 'It's been an interesting year, I feel like post-Covid we had this kind of false positive in an upsurge of work.' Then at the beginning of this year she said the work started to taper off, 'the work just wasn't there'. 'Puppets are not cheap they're labour intensive to make and keep running so it's not been working very well with the current economy. 'I love how puppetry engages people in a way that creates a very special relationship between the audience and the puppet.Wiltshire-based puppeteer of eight years, Anna Harriott said some of the mannerisms of the puppets she works with stay with her. 'There was a play we did with Tall Trees that needed a life sized dog, we just made one and it turned out I had an aptitude for working with it,' she sai

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