Puppetry
Design with an interest in fluid movement and a stylised aesthetic with construction skills in joints, mechanisms, worbla sculpting, plastazote carving, foam pattern cutting & rendering.
Click a puppet to see the design & process:
- DEER
Puppet -
Designed as one of the enchanted forest creatures for La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco (The Sleeping Beauty) in the Opera Double Bill
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Designed by Jana Lakatos
Made by Yuejie (Freya) Li
Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- FOX
Puppet -
Designed as one of the enchanted forest creatures for La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco (The Sleeping Beauty) in the Opera Double Bill
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Designed by Jana Lakatos
Made by Molly Morgan
Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- HARE
Puppet -
Designed as one of the enchanted forest creatures for La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco (The Sleeping Beauty) in the Opera Double Bill
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Designed by Jana Lakatos
Made by Zinuo (Michell) Liu
Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- TIMMY the
Thresher Shark -
For Now & Then puppetry performance 2022.
Designed, constructed & puppeteered by Jana Lakatos
Rendering by Ruby Aston
Production Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- SUIT
MAN -
Inspired by the Hatts Emporium suit stall in Cardiff Market made for Now & Then Puppetry performance 2022
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Designed & made by Jana Lakatos
Puppeteered by Jana Lakatos & Nico Venables
Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- HERBALIST
Puppet -
Designed as a plant that comes to life in the Physics Garden scene in GIANT Puppetry performance 2023.
Designer: Jana Lakatos
Maker: Cerys Arrowsmith
Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- CLAUDE
The Crab -
Part of a fishmongers stall that comes to life for Now & Then Puppetry performance 2022. Made from a worbla shell with pincer mechanisms in the claws.
Designed and made by Jana Lakatos
Photography: Kirsten Mcternan
- BLACKBIRD
Puppet -
Designed, made and puppeteered by Jana Lakatos
For Tall Tales from the Wild Woods (Acorn Music Theatre Company) 2023
Photography: Sandy Pond-Jones
- BUG
Puppets -
A collection of bug puppets made as part of the Physics garden in Giant! Puppetry (RWCMD) and reused in Tall Tales from the Wild Woods (Acorn Music Theatre Company) 2023
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Designed & Made by Jana Lakatos, Annie Proctor & Cerys Arrowsmith
- MEDIEVAL LORD
Puppet -
For GIANT! puppetry performance. 2023
Designed & Made by Jana Lakatos
