Blue Sky Theatre

Blue Sky Theatre tours nationally to arts centres, theatres, museums, galleries and schools. The company has a particular interest in drawing on folk tales from the African sub-continent and the Caribbean alongside their English cultural equivalents. It places great value on the role of laughter as a power for confronting fears and troubles.

Blue Sky Theatre creates new, child-centred work of quality for the very young, using imaginative themes explored with gentle humour, timeless wisdom and colourful visual simplicity. The company's own style of musical storytelling with puppets has been devised from close observation of the world in which children play.

The directors of Blue Sky Theatre are Mary and Glyn Edwards. Mary is the niece of John Wright, founder of London's world famous Little Angel Marionette Theatre. She toured extensively with her uncle's company in the UK, Europe and in Africa. She is a puppet maker of repute whose work has been commissioned by venues as diverse as the Theatre Royal Stratford East, Teatr Clywd and the Oily Cart Children’s Theatre Company. She is also celebrated for her traditional carved wooden Punch & Judy figures, one of which was commissioned as a gift for the Russian puppet master Sergei Obrastsov. Glyn is a key performer of traditional Punch & Judy who has performed throughout Britain as well as in France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Russia, Dubai, the USA and Japan. His book, Successful Punch and Judy, is considered the standard modern handbook on performing the show. He has written and directed work for other puppet companies including The Little Angel Theatre and Movingstage Marionettes on the Puppet Theatre Barge. He has also directed student work for Central School of Speech and Drama and for the Scuola di Guarratelle in Naples.

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