Good article on Handspring Puppet Company's Barrydale Project – 'a puppetry- based Festival that takes place in Barrydale on December 16th, the national "Day of Reconciliation" in South Africa. In the weeks preceding the holiday, Handspring Trust supports members of Handspring Puppet Company and allied artists to engage with the school children in the area, in order to expose them to performance, play and puppetry arts.' Follow the link to read more.
http://unima-usa.org/publications/Handspring_Trust.html
UNIMA-USA (Handspring Trust)
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Handspring Theatre Company, the South African theater makers (now most celebrated for War Horse, but also for such shows as Woyzeck on the Highveld, Faustus in Africa and Ubu and the Truth Commission) has for the past four decades engaged in an aesthetic exploration of relationship: the relations be…