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We offer mentoring, training and consultancy and specialise in puppetry and visual storytelling.

 

Sue Buckmaster offers a range of advice and collaboration including direction, dramaturgy, consultation on your puppetry needs and on the creation of work for young audiences.  We’re happy to discuss adapting our offers to your needs, so do get in touch.

  • Discover more about Sue Buckmaster’s consultancy work (direction, puppetry direction and dramturgy) HERE
  • Discover more about our 2-day intensive puppetry training course and our half day teacher’s CPD session HERE.
  • DYCP: if you feel your proposal would benefit from the inclusion of Sue as a mentor then we are happy to explore this
  • Training for Further Education Organisations: Sue Buckmaster can work with BA and MA Students  to explore the collaborative approach to theatre-making using the object/puppet as the starting point. This training is based on the content of Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites by Sue Buckmaster and Liam Jarvis and are often adapted to focus on the company’s current areas of research and development.  Find out more about our recent Residency Week at University of Essex. 

In 2024 Theatre-Rites offered series of activities as part of our Training, Mentoring and Consultancy Programme with the aim of:

  • Strengthening Puppetry as a contemporary artform
  • Strengthening the Artist and their Ideas

This included free mentoring to 4 Lead Artists, Puppetry & conversations and a 2 day puppetry workshop.

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Consultancy

Find out further information on examples of previous consultancies and how we can work with you.

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Workshops

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Residencies

Puppetry and Visual Storytelling Residencies

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Masterclass videos

The art of Puppet Whispering and Site-Specific Creations

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