Tag Archives: Sound Tracks

Making Sock Puppets

I ran a sock puppet making session at Metal for Sound Tracks. We made snake, walrus, lion, parrot, shark and violin puppets. Related Posts:Edgy: The Railway CabaretThem pidgins are up to summat!Flowers on the Train, Dreams on the LineHalloween Lantern more »

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Halloween Lantern Carnival – 2011

Photographs above by John Kennan This weekend I led a group of ten actors from Dismembered Empire and Sound Tracks performing in the Halloween Lantern Carnival in Sefton Park. This year’s show had 150 performers, four enormous puppets, loads of more »

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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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Them pidgins are up to summat!

Them pidgins are up to summat… They’re organised… I know it… That blue one… I reckon he’s their leader… (Misquoted from Chicken Run) I have made eight polyfoam pigeons for a performance Brox and I are part of next Saturday more »

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Taught by an Idiot

On Thursday I, and friends from the Sound Tracks group, the Suitcase Ensemble and LIPA attended a theatre workshop held by Told by an Idiot, the company behind And the Horse you rode in on. We played various improvisation games more »

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And The Horse You Rode In On

On Wednesday myself and friends from the Sound Tracks group and the Suitcase Ensemble went to see “And the Horse you Rode in On” by “Told by an Idiot” The plot was an unusual mix of politics, surrealism and clowning. more »

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