"The earth lay waste, barren and poisoned. Underneath the surface were holes with entrances to endless tunnels. In this dusky world they lived, with their diseased skin, their unending number of children; there they breathed in their stinking air, there they ate, nibbled, snorted and lay together in copulation. Now, in this world there lived a man who thought he was a rabbit," Stuffed Puppet says of the performance on its website.
Neville Tranter moved to the Netherlands after Stuffed Puppet participated at the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam in 1978. It was there that his visual and emotional adult puppet theatre developed to assume its present form.
"In his own brutal, ruthless but poetic way, he confronts the audience with their fears and dreams, urges and desires, personified by what are often life size talking puppets," according to Stuffed Puppet. "Neville Tranter is capable of evoking images that the audience will not forget for a long time. His combination of down to earth humour, deadly seriousness and virtuoso puppetry has already made permanent converts of many who had presumed that for them, puppetry had nothing to offer."
Before the performance on April 14, Tranter will hold a free workshop on his craft in English with a simultaneous interpreter.
Photo: Dániel Kováts
