The Puppet People
The Puppet People was a puppet company.
The company
Capetonian puppetry artist and former chairperson of Puppetry South Africa (UNIMA SA), Jaqueline Dommisse, trained in drama in Johannesburg in the 1980s. Together with Catherine Dodders, Dommisse created a puppetry-based company in the 1991 called The Puppet People. They are well known for their original African stories using rod and string puppets and masks and their highly theatrical adaptations of Native American, Aboriginal Australian and other world stories.
They created the seminal puppetry production Sadako for the Grahamstown National Arts Festival Fringe. In 2011, it was recreated and performed on the main festival programme of both the Grahamstown National Arts Festival and the Out The Box Festival where it won the Handspring Puppetry Award for best production.
Sources
https://wepa.unima.org/en/south-africa/
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