Puppetlink: Tempestade

Premiere of new theatre production using large-scale shadow puppetry and specially made glass figures and glass musical instruments – at the International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, on 22 to 24 August & National Premiere 20th September 2008 Marinha Grande - Portugal.

Theatre of Glass has been created by the West Midlands-based artists of PuppetLink working with a team of artists from the puppet company S.A.Marionetas, based in Alcobaça, Portugal. Over the months building up to the premiere of Tempestade, the two companies have worked together – in both countries – to develop new techniques in spectacular, cinematic-scale shadow puppetry, using glass puppets, sand and water, projected by moving light sources onto a 7m x 5m screen.