Claudia Six shares what she’s learned in the fields of performance and puppeteering and invites you to create your own creatures, exploring their performative possibilities in movement, expression and timing. Armed with glue guns and sewing machines, turn mountains of fabric, yarn, rods – and even a few socks – into an expressive friend, and learn how to channel its dramatic effect on stage. How will it act out emotional prompts or confrontational situations with others? Claudia helps participants find the right balance between theatrical gesture and precisely paced posing, allowing your puppet to develop a character of its own. After all, you are not playing the puppet – the puppet plays you! At the end of the day, we expect a premiere stage performance as part of the evening’s Characters in Every Corner ceremony. No pressure …