Alicia Britt from the UK will host a workshop during Puppet Slam Hanoi 2025. Photo app.spotlight.com

HÀ NỘI -  Puppeteer, director and designer Alicia Britt from the UK will be hosing a workshop during at Puppet Slam Hanoi 2025 which begins on October 25. 

The two-week event is hosted by TồLô Puppet Theatre and will showcase bold and playful new forms of puppetry for fans of all ages.

As a puppeteer and puppetry coordinator, Britt is proficient in many different types of puppetry such as screen, moving mouth, marionette, table top, object and shadow. 

She is the founder of Loaded Object Theatre, a puppet theatre company specialising in the progression of puppetry through socio-political issues. She is currently a resident puppetry director at Kings College London.

Her credits include being a puppeteer for the 2024 TV series Knuckles and for a music video for the Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa song 'One Kiss'.

Puppet Slam Hanoi will also feature a trip Nguyên Xá Water Puppet Troupe in the Hưng Yên Province. The village has a long tradition of making puppets and performing water puppetry.

The TồLô Puppet Theatre was founded by Linh Valerie Phạm and Trần Kim Ngọc in 2023. They started working together in a team of co-creators and directors for a show called Life Puppets in 2020.

After two years, the show premiered in April 2023 and has been running regularly ever since at Đó Theatre in Nha Trang Ward in Khánh Hòa Province. - VNS