To provide you with the best experience, cookies are used on this site. Find out more here.
To provide you with the best experience, cookies are used on this site. Find out more here.
To build your own Itinerary, click 
to add an item to your Itinerary basket.
Already saved an Itinerary?
Sunday 14th April | 2024 | 10am
Squire Performing Arts Centre
£4 - £8
Trunk, Tail, Ears or Wings?
Carnival creates itself from all sorts of things! This is "Carnival of the Animals". Dissected for body part potential to create the "ultimate animal", taking inspiration from music by Camille Saint-Saëns, a little help from Charles Darwin and a whole lot of cardboard to mash up a show full of puppet possibility.
Inspiration and delight for everyone from 4 to 104.
With their own inimitable style Lempen have taken the fantastic music by Camille Saint-Saëns, and an exploration of the material of cardboard, to make a fun, visual production with no text, refreshingly focused on the simple magic of puppetry to leave audiences inspired by both the animal theatricality of the music and the creative potential of the simple cardboard box.
Reviews:
"You can spend a fortune on multi-media but it's amazing what you can do with cardboard and paper – Superb!!!!"
"That was the most creative show I have ever seen. Really inspiring!"
"Amazingly beautiful show. Very poetic ideas, marvellous performance – everyone was captivated."
"Thank you for today's show Cardboard Carnival. What a charming, funny and inventive show enhanced by a beautiful atmospheric soundtrack. The enthralled children were inspired to dive into a stock of cardboard boxes and tubes that we put out for them as they left, no doubt planning to create their own animals!" – Janet Farmer, Pocklington Arts Centre
About Lempen Puppet Theatre Company:
Lempen Puppet Theatre Company tour their own unique brand of original stories told with puppets. Imaginative, spellbinding, surprising and sometimes bonkers, Lempen focus on puppetry, storytelling, light, music and a journey that takes the audience there and back again. We are inspired to make theatre by Myth and Folklore, crazy characters and laughter. Lempen Puppet Theatre Company aim to produce quality productions for family audiences that connect the real world to the world of imagination. Based in North Yorkshire, but touring nationally and internationally Liz and Daniel Lempen are also the Artistic Directors for Skipton International Puppet Festival.
Sorry, this event has passed
Afterlife has been a very successful series produced by Netflix to discuss the process…
A historic, beautifully maintained park that is home to an important collection of over…
Founded in 1969, Bonington Gallery has been at the forefront of Nottingham’s rich and…
Cave Escape is the newest addition to Nottingham's amazing escape room scene. Based…
Meet ‘Goosey’, famously known by Notts folk as the Goose Fair goose who sits on the Goose…
Raleigh Street, Nottingham, was the site of a small workshop which in 1886 started…
The Victoria Centre clock has stood proud in the shopping centre since it was created…
Axed Nottingham have brought next level urban axe throwing to the City centre!
Fun Station is a vibrant family entertainment centre at The Cornerhouse, full of…
Logiclock is an entertaining puzzle-based live escape game, designed for small groups of…
Nottingham Cathedral (the Cathedral Church of St Barnabas) was designed and built under…
Start your epic adventure at The Lost City Adventure Golf in The Cornerhouse!
The Park Tunnel was built in 1855 to allow horsedrawn carriages access to The Park Estate…
Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror is a must see piece of art, located at Nottingham Playhouse…
Only one part of Nottingham’s original medieval town wall can be seen in it’s original…
© Visit Nottinghamshire 2024. All Rights Reserved
.png){kind=icon}
.png){kind=icon}
.png){kind=icon}
