Little Angel puppet theatre - good reason to have children

Along with the golden age of children's literature that we are experiencing, and the angel is small, for me, one of many excellent reasons for having children. I just know I'll be with a small or Szalwinskis Szalwinskas there pretty much as soon as I get all the parts for their production.

Wander down Dagmar passage off Cross Street in Islington, London and find yourself in a leafy courtyard outside the theater is not much larger than the hole in the Hobbit. I make sure that I get to the Little Angel puppet theater to watch the shows their children respected 'at least twice a year. Before going in, I often find myself standing outside the theater workshop, and staring at the rows of puppets clearly carefully hanging in the window. When I leave, I keep looking back in the mud and wooden actors. They're still sitting, watching, almost breathing.

Yesterday I saw a revival of Christopher Leith and sleep there beauty with a crowd of schoolchildren on the young, who whispered to each other joy, and laughed when he caught a glimpse of Boom Queen naked as they splash in the tub, held their breath when about beauty to prick her finger and went "Ewww!" Prince when he moved in to clinch.

It was a good script, and the darkness both sunny. Ghraib, and the logo by Gregory (who knew he wrote for children?). The production in the colors and Chagall Tchaikovsky score, played on the piano a small, captivating. It was great being there with an audience of children mesmerized by seeing how all of this (puppeteers and unobtrusive, but the sight all around).

Now, I'll be the first to admit that appears in the small owners can be on the twee, old-fashioned side. But during his tenure as coach there, has proven insanely talented Steve Tiplady it need not be so. And found that they can be spoons, putty, cling film, objects, anything short: Tiplady, along with defective visual and the Summit for the blind, is part of a growing number of animated puppet theater who understand that it is not necessary to be beautiful, beautiful dolls you care to come out of the skip or look in the dustbin.

What is a wondrous piece of most brides you've seen recently? Newsprint is contained in a papier-mache giants satyagraha in the English National Opera House, perhaps? Or that life is wood trim size animals in the War Horse National Theatre is to reach a man-sized Kleenex?

I'd make a case for the year 2007 Tiplady Cinderella's Little Angel - travels through the delicate and grotesque, austere and gorgeous. Tiplady has a gift for the poetry of images and production as well as a piece of a lot of visual arts and a puppet show. Made inspired by the tale of the Brothers Grimm original, and the use of silhouettes with Pienkowski taste like. And Cinderella - and so was desolate after the death of her father, it made you shiver - just a doll with hair, lank grace such as spaghetti and yearning.