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Or get in touch to discuss your own requirements with us. We look forward to being able to supply the relevant programme that hooks in with your group and current themes.
iDOLRiCH and Theatrerotto’s workshops are an engaging introduction to the world of puppetry and animated theatre. They involve making and bringing puppets to life and can be booked in conjunction with one of our shows or as a stand alone half day, full day or a series of sessions. Each show has a different session complementing the type of puppetry used.We work with 3d puppetry, objects and shadows. Sessions are tailored for all abilities.
“We especially loved the puppet workshops!” Womad Festival
“Very impressive demonstration and delivery” Eden Project
“Our most difficult children were completely engrossed with the puppet making session”
Saxon Mount School, St Leonards
Current workshops
ISLAND SHADOWS
A short shadow performance followed by a shadow-making workshop.
A captivating shadow puppet show where we discover creatures from sea and rain forest all the way up to the treetop canopy reaching the sky. Families and children create their own real and fantasy puppet characters in the accompanying session and experiment with silhouette and colour. Participants bring their characters to life on this cloth of dreams – iDOLRiCH Theatre Rotto’s own shadow screen.
“ The team are fantastic and really helpful”
“We enjoyed the combination of making – crafting and performing, seeing how it all comes together”
“Absolutely lovely, huge thank yous! The students got so much from it, and thoroughly enjoyed it all.” – Lingfield school
CRETACEOUS LANDSCAPES
Incredible creatures roamed among the first flowering plants, early insects and mammal species in the cretaceous. Using shadow puppetry we bring them to life. Part 1 when combined with CRETACEOUS WORLD.
CRETACEOUS WORLD We visit the lost wonders from 145 – 65 million years ago and have almighty fun creating POP UP Landscapes using light-boxes and stencils. Part 2 when combined with CRETACEOUS LANDSCAPES.
WORKSHOP FLYER: Cretaceous Landscapes
“Massively impressed” Folkestone museum.
JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA 
An interactive exploration to the depths of the ocean using the medium of shadow puppetry.
Participants will enjoy a fantastical shadow performance and then create their own underwater characters and adventures – mingling with the existing sea creatures and exploring mysterious caves and colourful coral reefs which make up the layers of ocean life.
This is a workshop which introduces people of all ages and interests to the world of shadow theatre – which has origins in many different corners of the world. The session involves various activities – from being a spectator – through to making and manipulation. Participants will practice skills in crafting jointed 2 and 3D characters, experimenting with silhouettes and colour and will use our shadow screen to bring creations to life, whilst bending narratives to their own invention.
Aside from the pleasure of creating bespoke mini performances, participants will explore different life forms and behaviour within the geography of the sea – some of which may not even have ever existed!
“Great! A really enjoyable afternoon!” “We loved it” Harlow Playhouse
LANTERN MAGIC
Presented by iDOLRiCH Theatre Rotto puppets
An intriguing session to discover the properties of the Magic Lantern.
Experience a spectacular phenomenon which gripped Victorian society from the mid-1850s. The Magic Lantern was an early version of today’s translucent screen hooking spectators every bit as much.
FAINT as death defying visions float before your eyes. 
GAZE at tranquil pastoral landscapes.
APPLAUD the clever tricks and trickery aaaaand –
MAKE your own colourful Magic Lantern entertainment.
Mice disturbing the snoring man.
OTHER WORKSHOPS
SHADOWS
We also have a half day special which incorporates a short shadow show and is followed by a shadow making session which again is tailored to different ages and ability.
An interactive exploration to the depths of the ocean using the medium of shadow puppetry.
Participants will enjoy a fantastical shadow performance and then create their own underwater characters and adventures – mingling with the existing sea creatures and exploring mysterious caves and colourful coral reefs which make up the layers of ocean life.
This is a workshop which introduces people of all ages and interests to the world of shadow theatre – which has origins in many different corners of the world. The session involves various activities – from being a spectator – through to making and manipulation. Participants will practice skills in crafting jointed 2 and 3D characters, experimenting with silhouettes and colour and will use our shadow screen to bring creations to life, whilst bending narratives to their own invention.
Aside from the pleasure of creating bespoke mini performances, participants will explore different life forms and behaviour within the geography of the sea – some of which may not even have ever existed!
“Great! A really enjoyable afternoon!” “We loved it” Harlow Playhouse
LITTLE DINOSAURS BIG PUPPETS
Participants create 3D fantasy dinosaur characters by first making their own fossil bones and together animate them. They join the first amateur enthusiast palaeontologists of the Victorian era and explore the jigsaw approach that is used to recreate a dinosaur skeletal frame from the partial evidence that remains.