We provide a range of courses to cater to the needs of every student;
designed specifically with flexibility in mind the London School of
Puppetry allows you to take your course the way that suits you best
providing a variety of options to help with the financial and time
pressures that many students may face.
Courses
Evening Extras Puppetry and Language KS1 and KS2
Puppetry and language experience for KS1 and KS2. This course uses features of Japanese Pape Sate (see illustration) to create narratives in action. The children learn to experience words and objects through physical movement in...
Evening Xtras Dance and Shadow Playtime
Work with a choreographer on this project and make a group piece. This course allows you to explore the shadow as an object. You learn to project your body with light and manipulate the shadow...
Evening Xtras Intro to Table Top Puppetry
This is an opportunity to play with objects and make a short performance. The ability to make objects work as characters is one that needs the ability to observe, respond imaginatively and improvise. Simple developmental...
Evening Xtras Lipsync Choir
XGet the most out of lip-sync puppetry. The much loved lip-sync puppet is familiar to all television fans and this course explores this exciting medium embedded in popular culture. Expect plenty of puppet play and...
Evening Xtras Marionette Playtime
Learning to operate a marionette can significantly improve your operation of all other types of puppets. Puppets are provided for an exciting and stimulating period of puppet play which includes both simple making and playing...
Evening Xtras Otome: Puppet Play for Women
A women-only rod puppetry group experience. Otome-Bunraku is officially the only puppet a woman can work in Japan and we have adapted it for our use. It's open to any women interested in dance, drama...
Evening Xtras Props and Puppets Playtime
Explore the charm of the glove puppet building scenes out of the handling of props. The hand puppet is one that offers complete independence because it is easy to develop dramatic scenes with one puppet...
Evening Xtras Puppetry and Language
Puppetry and language experience for early years and KS1. Puppets are well known for the de-inhibiting of speech, for little children this experience is based on the ability of the teacher to use puppets for speaking...
Hand, Glove and Lip sync Puppetry Module
When television looked for puppets it looked for celebrities. Come and study with LSP and discover the celebrity in you and the puppets you make. This is your chance to become a star of stage...
Marionette Making
Join us for this seven day course and learn traditional carving techniques and walk your marionette out of the workshop. The puppet style designed by Ronnie Le Drew and Caroline Astell-Burt integrates John Wright's jointing...
Marionette Module
The marionette is a classical form of puppet. As it is a complete figure, operators often enjoy the solo nature of the piece developing some superb acts which are compelling to watch. The theme this...
ReCreation. Puppetry Breaks in Yorkshire
ReCreation offers you a unique experience of puppetry in the lovely Yorkshire Dales. Combine walking and site-seeing in Yorkshire with puppetry. Puppets, equipment, practical guidance and books are available for participants to create performances, or...
Rod Puppetry Module
Rod puppetry is the largest genre of puppetry from Table-top to Japanese style Otome and all in between. The course time is divided between solo, group work and tutorials. The scale can be extremely varied,...
Shadow Puppetry Module
Shadow Theatre is an enigmatic form of performance - comical like cartoons or borne out of our deepest fears and the unsolved mysteries of our lives. It might be expressed through the whole body or...
XTRA for Autumn Homophobia and Forum Theatre.
Homophobia. A project for a community. Old age, difference and prejudice. This project is based on moves to allow elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people to remain "out" in the care community. By using...
XTRA for AUTUMN Peer Education and Puppetry
This class is based on an LSP projected funded by Barclays Bank exploring the possibilities of young people making a performance as a focus for peer education about sexually transmitted diseases. Highlights Making Rod Puppets...
XTRA for Autumn Shadow Puppetry and Knife Crime
This course based on a recent project undertaken by WaxBaby Productions was created by the secondary school participants. Allowing the audience to both invent the action based on their own lives and interrogate the results,...