'Fireside Tales with Granddad'
by Pickled Image

Touring 2015/16

Fireside Tales with Granddad is a new show based on Pickled Images’ adorable puppet Granddad. Granddad has already had huge success with our previous show Travels with Granddad and toured in the UK for two years. Fireside Tales has been created to fit larger theatre spaces and features an array of wonderful puppets, a shadow film and beautiful stories all crafted by Adam Fuller (the puppeteer of Granddad). The show is ideal for family audiences and can suit non-theatre spaces as long as there is enough performance space.

Cuddle up around the campfire as Granddad recalls a daring escape from a hungry shark. Tuck into a marshmallow or two as he attempts to make a new set of underpants for a giant. And watch as the shadows between the trees unravel a tale of greedy goblins, grumpy trolls, sneaky princes and a very unusual princess. Exquisite puppets, captivating storytelling, beautiful shadow puppetry combine to create an enchanting show guaranteed to spark the imagination of everyone
Running time: 50 minutes approx. Intended audience: Families with children 4+

Testimonials

Fantastic interaction with the audience, quizzing the children with brilliant conversation throughout. Another sold-out performance by Pickled Image, all audience left with a smile asking when Granddad would be back. The Pound in Corsham

It was a pleasure to have Pickled Image as part of the weekend and I wouldn’t hesitate in inviting you back to perform the same show or your next production in the Weston Studio. Louise Miles-Crust, Wales Millennium Centre

Fireside Tales with Grandad was very popular here at Salisbury Playhouse, it was charming and engaged our audience young and old throughout with it’s well placed storytelling. Louise Dancey, Salisbury Playhouse

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'The Shop of Little Horrors'
by Pickled Image

Touring 2015
Grimlake’s Emporium of Novelties: a dilapidated shop on the outskirts of Nowhere, where corny magic tricks and strange puppets collect dust and cobwebs. No one has entered the shop for years, but that’s just fine by proprietor Albert Grimlake.

Albert is a man obsessed with puppets, particularly ventriloquist dummies – each face lovingly crafted by his own hand, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to customers, friends and family long gone.
But Grimlake is growing old and knows he won’t last forever. He has no son, no successor. Time is running out to find someone to keep the Emporium open, someone to breathe life into his creations, someone who shares his peculiar passion for puppets…

Enter Eric. He’s young, he’s eager, and he’s seen all the Muppet movies, twice. He’s the perfect applicant: keener than mustard and easily moulded. But Eric discovers there’s so much to learn.

How do you scream without moving your lips?
Running time: 70 minutes. Intended audiencer: Adult/Young Adult (minimum recommended age 12)

Reviews

The Oxford Times: Five Stars. ‘If you can imagine Harold Pinter and Alfred Hitchcock creating a puppet show together then you can get some idea of what to expect from Pickled Image’s new production The Shop of Little Horrors.’

Animations Online: ‘The Shop of Little Horrors’ is a disturbing and dark comical treat from macabre theatre experts Pickled Image.…. mixing murder, obsession and the macabre in a style similar to the 'The League of Gentleman' but with a level of intensity that can only be found in live performance.’

The British Theatre Guide: ‘a truly macabre gruesome story told with a wicked sense of humour’

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