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Roger Titley
James Thomson
Vonan Gill
Annette van Wyk
Veronika Schurr
Meet the Team
Mr. Roger Titley
Administrator
Roger Titley's is an award winning puppet designer
Mr. James Thomson
Manager
James is an experienced movement coach and choreographer living in Paris
Mr. Vonan Gill
Manager
Vonan is head of the Creature building team in South Africa
recent News & Events
Moscow Ballet Birds - 2022
We are pleased to be making up another 18 Doves for Moscow Ballets tour of the Great Russian Nutcracker in the USA. These doves join the other two bird puppets, the Firebirds and the Peacocks that were built for previous seasons.
These birds are used on indoor stages where there is minimal wind. This has allowed Roger to create very soft wings. This gives added elegance to the flight of this puppet.
FIFA Arab Cup Opening Ceremony - 2021
In Late November 2021 James Thomson and two French puppeteers went to Qatar to rehearse for the Opening Ceremony show. It is unusual for us to paint our animals. The white is so effective in making the puppets stand out and in seperating the creature from the operators and the background. In this case however, together with Production Company Les Petits Français we felt the darker colour would work better due to the projections on the field. The colour of the operators clothing was chosen to blend in with the colour of the mats covering the field.
Dailes Theatre Company, Riga, Latvia - 2022
Dailes Theatre will be using a horse puppet as a visual representation of the madness of the king in Claire van Kampen’s Farinelli and the King. Company movement director James Thomson travelled to Riga to conduct a weeks intensive workshop with the puppeteers alongside the theatre’s choreographer and deputy choreo, Jana Jacuka and Marija Saveiko.
