THE GRINNING MAN

PUPPETRY CO-DESIGNER & CO-DIRECTOR

Bristol Old Vic, 2016
West End, 2017

“The puppetry by Gyre & Gimble is superb.”
THE TIMES

“Amazing to look at, with the best puppetry since War Horse.”
MAIL ON SUNDAY

“Best of all is the puppetry, notably an awe-inspiring wolf, half-human and half-marionette.”
SUNDAY EXPRESS

“It certainly looks beautiful – whether in the achingly expressive marionette version of Grinpayne as a child or in the wonderfully moving Mojo, a skeletal grey wolf.”
THE INDEPENDENT

“The puppetry is miraculous, ranging from a miniature re-enactment of Beauty and the Beast to a wolf so consistently lupine that only in retrospect do you realise that you have been bewitched.”
THE OBSERVER

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Puppet fabrication

Nick Barnes
Daisy Beattie
Dulcie Best
Caroline Bowman
Marc Parrett
Hugh Purves
Zosia Stella-Sawicka
Tim Sykes

Production Photography

Simon Annand
Helen Maybanks