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SPAWN!
Devising, making and performing for "SPAWN!", a Richard Burton Production
Maker, Puppeteer
A Richard Burton Company production
Production designed, made and performed in collaboration with students at RWCMD
Directed by Lucy Hall and Elliot Ditton
Composed by Elaina Sohpie, Jacob James Owen and Ryan Crobinson
Production Photography by Kristen McTernan and Melody Bainbridge-Todd
SPAWN! was a 10 week journey of devising, protoyping, making, performing and play, culminating in several performances to audiences of all ages. Each part of the piece as asigned to a small group of students, able to offer up ideas, experiment and construct within their own scenes. SPAWN! also took on an accessibility element, with the piece being creatively captioned throughout for those who are hard of hearing.
The Overall Process
For myself, I was able to construct a Blue Iguana by the name of "George", a large lizard who consumes a frog puppet on stage. His hard head is constructed from Worbla, chosen for it's ability take a form from a clay sculpt, but also be structually sound enough to have a mouth mechanism built into it. His body is constructed from foam, flexible piping and fabric decorated with Idenden to create a relief scale pattern.