Showing posts with label Global Creatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Creatures. Show all posts

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Meet King Kong (the new kid on the music theatre block)


He is large, he is black, he is muscular, and he is the new kid on the music theatre block.

Early on Monday morning, as bleary-eyed office workers were beginning the working week, the long-awaited King Kong was revealed at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne.

Five years in the making, Melbourne-made King Kong is a creation of Global Creatures (Walking with Dinosaurs and How to Train Your Dragon). Standing six metres tall the part marionette, animatronic and puppet, weighs in at 1.1 tonnes of steel, aluminium, lycra and latex. 

Read the full article and view photo gallery on Stage Whispers here.

Watch footage of Lucy's interviews with cast and production team at the Media Call here

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

War Horse - the international juggernaut set to hit Melbourne

Puppets have come a long way since The Muppets, and if yesterday’s media launch at Arts Centre Melbourne is any measure, War Horse will be the talk of the town when it takes the stage this summer.

Puppets? 
Taking Melbourne by storm? 
You can’t be serious.

Deadly.

At the Arts Centre Melbourne this morning the media were introduced to the star of War Horse, a true-to life puppet called Joey, and the three puppeteers that bring him to life. Continue reading

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