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A brand-new festival of "exciting and powerful international visual performance" beings at Dundee Rep next week. The cover of its programme is dark blue and moody, a silhouetted figure dragging her hand along a wall. The opening show, the festival's director tells me, is "a very beautiful but very unsettling meditation about lonliness and isolation."
The surprise is that the director in question is Simon Hart, who normally runs Scotland's Puppet Animation Festival, a lively annual event for children, full of cute talking animals. Manipulate is something of a departure for Hart-a showcase of puppetry and animation for grown-ups that he hopes will help move the artform out of what he calls its "children and young people's ghetto". When designing the programme, he says, anything "cute and cuddly" was out. "Edgy" was the order of the day. The word "puppetry" was to be used only sparingly.See the full content of this document
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Going Out: No 1: Festival Manipulate: The Puppetmasters
"The P-word tends to put adults off in the UK," he says. "On the continent there's a much greater appreciation of it among adults and there's a much more consistent use o...
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