Nottingham Puppet Festival - Video, 2018
Title
Nottingham Puppet Festival - Video, 2018
Date
25 March 2018
Description
360-degree film of Joey and Topthorne the 'stars' of the National Theatre's War Horse parading outside the Theatre Royal as part of Nottingham Puppet Festival 2018.
What's the story?
In March/April 2018, the celebrated National Theatre production of Michael Morpugo’s War Horse came to Nottingham, where it performed a sell-out run in the Theatre Royal’s sister venue the Royal Concert Hall. Normally a drama like this would take place in the Theatre Royal, but the size of this show meant that it needed to play in the wider open spaces of the Concert Hall.
To coincide with the show that utilised the amazing puppetry of South Africa’s Handspring Theatre, David Longford, the venue’s Creative Learning Manager, decided to create and produce Nottingham’s first Puppet Festival. This was run in partnership with Nottingham Trent University and City Arts and saw four days of puppetry related talks, performances, screening and workshops all across the city. Please visit www.nottinghampuppetfestival.co.uk to find out more.
One of the centre-pieces of the festival were the free events and activities taking place in Market Square, which culminated in a large puppet parade through the square on the final day.
As a prelude to the Market Square events, we enlisted the help of the National Theatre and the two star horses from War Horse, Joey and Topthorne, to parade in front of the iconic Theatre Royal portico.
To add to the atmosphere brass players from Nottingham Trent’s music department performed period music from the World War one era.
Despite being months in the planning, this event was never advertised. It was designed to be a surprise ‘happening’ outside the venue, where members of the public would suddenly discover that it was taking place. However, a crowd quickly developed and as you can see from the video, a sizeable number turned up to cheer on the horses.
This was a magical event, with people getting very emotional on seeing the horses at such close quarters.
The video created by Roseanna Escobar-Byrne from Nottingham Trent University by simply placing a camera on one of the Theatre Royal columns, captures the event well and with its 360-degree capabilities, you can spin the camera round to see the whole event. Simply click on the screen and move your viewpoint around via your mouse.
To coincide with the show that utilised the amazing puppetry of South Africa’s Handspring Theatre, David Longford, the venue’s Creative Learning Manager, decided to create and produce Nottingham’s first Puppet Festival. This was run in partnership with Nottingham Trent University and City Arts and saw four days of puppetry related talks, performances, screening and workshops all across the city. Please visit www.nottinghampuppetfestival.co.uk to find out more.
One of the centre-pieces of the festival were the free events and activities taking place in Market Square, which culminated in a large puppet parade through the square on the final day.
As a prelude to the Market Square events, we enlisted the help of the National Theatre and the two star horses from War Horse, Joey and Topthorne, to parade in front of the iconic Theatre Royal portico.
To add to the atmosphere brass players from Nottingham Trent’s music department performed period music from the World War one era.
Despite being months in the planning, this event was never advertised. It was designed to be a surprise ‘happening’ outside the venue, where members of the public would suddenly discover that it was taking place. However, a crowd quickly developed and as you can see from the video, a sizeable number turned up to cheer on the horses.
This was a magical event, with people getting very emotional on seeing the horses at such close quarters.
The video created by Roseanna Escobar-Byrne from Nottingham Trent University by simply placing a camera on one of the Theatre Royal columns, captures the event well and with its 360-degree capabilities, you can spin the camera round to see the whole event. Simply click on the screen and move your viewpoint around via your mouse.
Type
Film
Location of item
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
Rights
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
Contributor
Researcher: David Longford
