Courses

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

A Summer School and ReCreation Puppetry Break 3.

Puppetry in Education and Therapy 20-27th June Yorkshire  This week will be developed around the personal needs of each participant. After assessment on the first day you will be set some simple tasks using a...

COURSE FULL A Summer School and ReCreation Break 1

One Month Marionette Holiday. 12 June-10th July Yorkshire  Come and design, make and operate your own marionette.  This is a relaxed experience in the  beautiful surroundings of Grassington, North Uorkshire.   Each day will provide the...

COURSE FULL! Marionette Carving. A Summer School and ReCreation Puppetry Break 2

Marionette Making Summer School 12-18 June Yorkshire. 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...

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 Open Course

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,...