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Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show By Larrikin Puppets

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Contents

COMPANY PROFILE ...... 3 ABOUT THE SHOW ...... 3 PERFORMANCE SPECIFICS ...... 9 AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT ...... 10 MARKETING ...... 11 PRODUCTION DETAILS ...... 14 CONTACTS ...... 18

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 2 of 18 COMPANY PROFILE

Larrikin Puppets performs colourful and exciting puppet shows and interactive puppetry workshops featuring zany characters and catchy songs for live, online and TV audiences. They have a fun, catchy debut music EP for kids aged 3-9, available across 150+ music streaming services.

Highly entertaining and captivating, Larrikin Puppets’ fast-paced, feel-good puppetry celebrates fun, kindness and diversity while nurturing child development, encouraging audiences to talk, dance, sing and play along.

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show is Larrikin Puppets’ biggest theatre production to date. Larrikin Puppets regularly tours its smaller pop-up theatre comedy variety puppet shows, storytime puppet shows and puppet performance workshops to festivals, schools and libraries across Queensland, including rural and regional communities, for audiences 7 and under and their families. This performance is the first one developed by Larrikin Puppets that is specifically for older children aged 6 to 9 years (early primary) and designed for performances in theatres and halls with professional sound and lighting.

Award-winning Larrikin Puppets, established in 2012, is a thriving Queensland puppetry arts company founded by puppeteer and musician Brett Hansen. His wife Elissa Jenkins joins him as co-puppeteer and human host. They specialise in children's entertainment and kids’ music through puppetry arts.

Brett and Elissa, who received training in the USA under Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street, provide child and family audiences with wide-eyed wonder, joy and laughs from beginning to end.

A full-time professional puppetry arts company, prominent performances include Woodford Folk Festival, Puppetry Arts Festival of Brooklyn (USA), Hamilton Island Resort, Horizon Festival, Cooroy Fusion Festival, Redcliffe Sails Festival, Ipswich Festival, Bundaberg Pageant of Lights, and Gladstone Harbour Festival.

Notable TV appearances include puppetry on The Bureau of Magical Things, Totally Wild and Juiced TV, and in music videos for Regurgitator and Tia Gostelow.

ABOUT THE SHOW

SHOW SYNPOSIS

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show is a colourful and thought-provoking theatre production by Larrikin Puppets for ages 6-9 based on a children’s

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 3 of 18 book by Australian author Hazel Edwards OAM and Turkish-Australian Muslim co-author, Ozge Alkan.

Hijabi Girl is a refreshing look at the diverse mix of cultures within most Australian schools. With themes around diversity, identity, anti-bullying and creative problem solving, the show is a celebration of multicultural Australia and a statement about acceptance, and coping successfully with being different.

Hijabi Girl features 14 colourful hand puppets and creative rod puppets hand-crafted by seven different puppet builders from across Australia, Indonesia and the USA. The innovative show includes spectacular UV blacklight puppetry plus bizarre and delightful food, pencil, football, eye glass and shark puppets.

Larrikin Puppets, from regional Queensland, are writing an original script and original songs based on the book. For authenticity, the main puppet cast are voiced by seven Queensland child actors and singers aged 9-12 with a Turkish-Australian child as narrator, all prerecorded for the show.

Astonishingly, Hijabi Girl is performed by just two puppeteers - Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins – who were trained in the USA by Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street.

Hijabi Girl book co-author Ozge Alkan wears a hijab and was harassed on the train after The Lindt Café terrorist incident. Co-authoring this book is her response, with a view to creating social change and impact with children.

The creative development of Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show began in the aftermath of the Christchurch NZ Mosque tragedy in 2019 when we raised $8300, exceeding our target, to crowdfund the puppet build and set design - a huge cry of support for love, tolerance and understanding of other cultures at a time of extreme hate and prejudice.

Larrikin Puppets is self-funding script development, songwriting, paid music production, paid child performers, marketing and promotions.

We’ve had 12 of the 14 puppets built and have auditioned and cast 7 children to provide the acting and singing voices of the puppet characters, including narration in both Turkish and English. A stage set is under construction. The script adaptation and songs are in development.

The show was set to premiere in July 2020, but due to Covid restrictions we were unable to record songs with children. We hope to begin recording in November 2020 with a premiere performance set for 2021.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 4 of 18 ARTFORM

• Children’s / Family • Music Theatre / Opera • Puppet Theatre

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Hijabi Girl Book Authors: Hazel Edwards and Ozge Alkan 93 crowdfunding supporters Puppeteers: Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins Scriptwriter: Elissa Jenkins Songwriter: Brett Hansen Music Producer: Dylan Kreis Set Design: Steve Beeston

Puppet Builders: School children - The Puppet Creation Lab & Puppet Tribe, Melbourne AFL Football - Prairie Puppets, USA Turkish Kebab and Rice Paper Roll - Feriana Tiarnida, Indonesia Pencils - Katherine Hannaford - Sydney Sharks and tadpoles - Top Of The Stairs Puppets, Perth Glasses rod puppet and book parade rod puppet - Margie Salvatore, USA

Voice Cast: Melek Voice - Mabel Tamone, aged 12 Melek Singing Voice - Caitlin Trappett, aged 12

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 5 of 18 Tien Voice - Madeleine York, aged 10 Zac Voice - David Hill, aged 12 Lily Voice - Ella Kennedy, aged 11 Aimee (AFL Football) Voice - Lily Skelson, aged 10 Turkish/English Narrator Voice - Zaid Seker, aged 11

BIOGRAPHIES

Brett Hansen:

Children’s entertainer Brett Hansen is the founder of and principal puppeteer at Larrikin Puppets. Brett’s weekly puppetry work is mainly focussed on live performances at schools, childcare centres, festivals and libraries around South-East Queensland plus regular tours across Queensland from Rockhampton in the north to Roma in the west. Brett also runs beginner puppetry workshops at schools and for casts of theatre productions and for film and TV productions.

In 2016, Brett spent three months in the USA for professional development where he networked, trained and performed with puppeteers in New York City, Los Angeles and Texas. He received formal puppetry training at the Beyond The Sock advanced puppetry workshop at the University of North Texas under Jim Henson puppeteers from Sesame Street and The Muppets; Marty Robinson and Noel MacNeal, with puppet construction training from Pasha Romanowski (Project Puppet, The Moe Show). Brett also trained at The Puppet Kitchen in Manhattan, New York under Michael Schupbach (Sesame Street, The Jim Henson Company). Brett performed his puppet show with Troggg and friends in New York City at the Puppetry Arts Festival of Brooklyn.

In theatre, Brett was puppetry consultant (trainer of puppeteer cast members) in both the 2012 and 2014 Brisbane Arts Theatre productions of Broadway musical, ‘Avenue Q‘, as well as the 2017 Sunnybank Theatre Group production and 2019 Toowoomba Shoe Box Theatre production. Brett was also a puppeteer cast member of the show in 2012, co-performing Nicky and Trekkie Monster.

Brett’s own casted stage shows ‘Thank Troggg You’re Here: A Puppet Impro Spectacular!’ and ‘Show Of Hands’ have been performed several times to large audiences as part of the Anywhere Theatre Festival in 2014 and 2018.

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In film, Brett performed the puppet characters in Richard Bell’s ‘5 for 35’, a film which screened in 2015-2016 at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) at GOMA (Queensland’s Gallery Of Modern Art). He also assisted with the puppetry in ‘Cluck: The Web Series’, puppeteered Troggg in the short film ‘Heart of a Thousand Souls’, and puppeteered two characters in the short film ‘Kev’.

In television, Brett has performed puppetry on “Totally Wild” (Network Ten / Eleven), “The Bureau of Magical Things” (Jonathan M. Shiff Productions and Network Ten / Eleven), The Late Nite Show” and “Showreel” (31 Digital) and appeared (as Troggg) on two episodes of “Juiced TV” (Children’s Hospital Foundation).

Brett performed the puppetry in the music video for Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show song ‘Best Friends Forever’ which was a finalist at the Queensland Music Awards for Best Music Video and aired on ABC Kids TV. He also performed puppetry in the music video for Tia Gostelow’s single, ‘That’s What You Get‘ (Why Not? Films), which has aired nationally on Rage and MTV.

Brett won the 2015 BizCover NEIS Change Award for Larrikin Puppets at the Small Business Development Conference in Melbourne, after the growth of the business throughout its first three years.

Elissa Jenkins:

Elissa Jenkins is Larrikin Puppets’ artistic director, with a focus on theatrical development, creative partnerships, funding opportunities and driving the company’s program of shows.

Elissa performs main characters Flossy, Marina, Bangles and other background characters; performs on stage as a human host storyteller and dancer; and conducts puppetry performance workshops for children and adults. She has received formal puppetry training at The Puppet Kitchen in Manhattan, New York under Michael Schupbach (Sesame Street, The Jim Henson Company).

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 7 of 18 Elissa has a 21 year career in media, marketing, communications and management; three degrees; a collection of awards; a bunch of life experience; and many beautiful stories to tell.

Elissa has worked for a multinational media corporation, in the non-profit sector, in the renewable energy sector, and has supported small to medium businesses and social enterprises to flourish. She’s an ideas person and an action person – she makes things happen.

Elissa combines her friendly personality, passion and pizzazz with her smarts, sincerity and professionalism to steer strategic organisational imperatives and inspire teams to achieve greatness, no matter where in the world they are located.

Elissa is a leader in the social justice and environment movements, locally and globally. Her volunteer activities have taken her to Kenya, Brazil, Austria and Taiwan and provided her with a global network of environmental and social justice friends and colleagues.

While Larrikin Puppets is a full-time endeavour for Brett, it is a part-time, passion piece for Elissa, who says, “I am very lucky to have such a playful business to have fun with while supporting it to grow.”

TARGET AUDIENCE

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show has been created for children aged 6-9. While it is a wonderful production for schools to attend as a group, it will also suit children and families.

To help enhance social bonds and provide a useful role in helping children develop emotional intelligence, our puppet shows are best enjoyed by children together with adults – teachers or parents. There is enormous value for parents, grandparents, carers and teachers to role-model how to watch a puppet theatre show. Sometimes our show is the first puppet show a child has ever seen!

They tend to get very excited, so as well as enjoying the show and reflecting on its messages, it’s also an important opportunity to support children in learning how to interact with a live puppet theatre performance.

Larrikin Puppets has conducted three self-managed 2-3 week Queensland tours performing at libraries, schools, shopping centres, festivals and childcare centres. When a client books us in a regional location (eg. 8 hours away in Rockhampton), we tend to find it very easy to attract bookings in other regional communities along the way. We combine direct marketing (e.g. emails and phone calls) with social media marketing (e.g. targeted Facebook boosts) to attract our clients. However, we also find that word of mouth

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 8 of 18 carries in regional communities and often we receive tour bookings out of the blue.

If someone searches for ‘puppet show’ in Australia, Larrikin Puppets comes up first in a Google search, bringing potential clients to our professional and regularly updated website. We are also very active on social media and have solid followings, particularly on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.

PERFORMANCE SPECIFICS

TOURING AVAILABILITY

Larrikin Puppets will be available to tour Hijabi Girl across Queensland in 2022 for 3 months from 1 June to 31 August, 2022. Book Week is usually in August, so August is a great opportunity to present the show. If Book Week changes its dates in 2022, we can consider touring during that period as well.

DURATION

90 minutes (includes puppet show, presentation, Q&A, backstage tour)

SUITABLE VENUES

Ideally, the show is designed to be performed in indoor theatres and halls that have a sound system and controllable stage lighting available.

For us to feature the UV Blacklight element of our show (a 5 minute segment), we would need a black-out theatre (no windows with sunlight shining through).

However, the performance is flexible and can be performed in:

• Blackout theatres • Theatres • Halls with stage lighting • Halls without stage lighting (daylit)

We can use our own PA speakers, but these will only be suitable for audiences of under 100.

To ensure puppeteers remain hidden, we cannot do theatre-in-the-round or have audiences located in high balcony seating.

This show is not suitable for outdoor performances.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 9 of 18 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PERFORMANCES PER WEEK 10 performances (e.g. 2 performances a day across 5 days in the same location)

MINIMUM BREAK BETWEEN PERFORMANCES 120 minutes

LICENCING AGREEMENTS N/A

APRA OBLIGATIONS N/A. All original music.

TOURING PERSONNEL The touring party consists of 2 people.

Name Role Elissa Jenkins Puppeteer, Tour Manager Brett Hansen Puppeteer

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

N/A. Hijabi Girl is a new show, so there have been no performances as yet. Past puppet show performances by Larrikin Puppets are available at www.larrikinpuppets.com.au/gig-calendar

AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

OVERVIEW

Our goal is to continue to instil in children and families, from city to country, Australia's strong history of accepting people from different cultural backgrounds.

8 year old Melek always finds answers. Some are under her super hijab. Unable to find a book character in a hijab for the Book Parade, Melek writes her own, with illustrations by Tien.

While the performance is suitable any time of year, the link to Book Week will be encouraged for August performances, with children invited to dress up in costume on the day of the show.

Themes around diversity, identity, anti-bullying and creative problem solving align with the Intercultural Understanding strand of the Australian School Curriculum and the puppetry is in line with the Design and Technologies strand.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 10 of 18 After the show, the puppeteers will demonstrate how the puppets work and offer a behind-the-scenes tour. We will also provide the opportunity for children to ask questions about the content of the show and the puppets.

For any questions we can't answer on the spot, particularly cultural questions, we will film an answer later featuring the puppets (voiced by our child actors) and publish it on our website and social media for post-show community engagement.

DESCRIPTION / DETAILS

In addition to a narrative, Hijabi Girl includes original songs in contemporary musical theatre style to make it dynamic and engaging.

Hijabi Girl co-author Ozge Alkan, who wears a hijab, said the show holds appeal as it’s a story of a girl who dresses differently to everyone else and is totally fine with who she is. Unlike many fearful news messages that imply different is bad and scary, Hijabi Girl is a fast-paced romp that celebrates confidence and acceptance.

The show features a scene about Book Week, as Melek is sick of going to Book Week as Little Red Riding Hood. If held during Book Week, teachers and parents my wish to encourage children to dress up in their Book Week costumes for the show.

COST

$2500 per performance. If more than one performance is hosted in the same venue on the same day or across multiple days (without packing down the set), we can provide a show discount.

MARKETING

Copy to be provided by Larrikin Puppets to presenters should Hijabi Girl be chosen as one of Artour’s Showcase productions.

MARKETING COPY

One line copy:

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show, featuring colourful, whimsical Muppet- style puppetry rarely experienced live, explores diverse cultures within Australian schools.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 11 of 18 Short copy:

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show, featuring colourful Muppet-style puppetry rarely experienced live, explores diverse cultures within Australian schools.

8 year old Melek always finds answers. Some are under her super hijab. She's joined by school friends Tien, Zac and Lily plus a gaggle of whimsical singing puppets.

Get ready for a fun romp, visual feast and magical music.

Based on a children's book by Hazel Edwards and Ozge Alkan, Larrikin Puppets brings this multicultural story to life for kids aged 6-9 and their families, celebrating diversity, kindness and creativity.

With themes around identity, anti-bullying and problem solving, the show is a celebration of multicultural Australia and a statement about acceptance, and coping successfully with being different.

Extended copy:

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show, featuring colourful, whimsical Muppet- style puppetry rarely experienced live, explores diverse cultures within Australian schools.

With themes around identity, anti-bullying and problem solving, the show is a celebration of multicultural Australia and a statement about acceptance, and coping successfully with being different.

8 year old Melek always finds answers. Some are under her super hijab. She's joined by school friends Tien, Zac and Lily plus a gaggle of whimsical singing puppets.

Get ready for a fun romp, visual feast and magical music plus a segment of spectacular UV blacklight puppetry.

Larrikin Puppets has developed an original script and original songs based on the book. For authenticity, the main puppet cast are voiced by seven Queensland child actors and singers aged 9-12 with a Turkish-Australian child as narrator, all prerecorded for the live show.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 12 of 18 Astonishingly, Hijabi Girl is performed by just two puppeteers - Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins – who were trained in the USA by Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street.

In addition to Hijabi Girl, Larrikin Puppets also performs colourful and exciting puppet shows and interactive puppetry workshops featuring zany characters and catchy songs for live, online and TV audiences. They have a fun, catchy debut music EP for kids aged 3-9, available across 150+ music streaming services.

Larrikin Puppets is also available to tour its smaller pop-up theatre comedy variety puppet shows, storytime puppet shows and puppet performance workshops to festivals, schools and libraries across Queensland, including rural and regional communities, for audiences 7 and under and their families.

MARKETING SUMMARY

Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show has been created especially for children aged 6-9 and their families. It’s designed to capture the hearts and minds of early primary school children, from grades 1-4.

As well as appealing to family groups, the opportunity to promote to and attract primary school groups is massive. A Hijabi Girl Teachers Resource Kit and Hijabi Girl: School Play Performance Script are both available.

While the performance is suitable any time of year, the link to Book Week can be encouraged for August performances, with children invited to dress up in costume on the day of the show.

At the end of each show we will provide a presentation on how the puppets work with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. We will also give school groups a rare, backstage, behind-the scenes tour of a working puppet theatre.

VIDEO LINKS

35 second promotional video at https://youtu.be/WSdjaWrBSWY

IMAGES

Professional photo shoot to take place in late 2020/early 2021.

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A promotional video, promotional posters, a media release template as well as images and text designed for a variety of social media platforms will be made available.

CONTENT WARNINGS / AUDIENCES TO AVOID

Hijabi Girl is G rated for a General audience. It has been designed to be enjoyed and appreciated by children aged 6-9 and their families. While children aged 10 and up may enjoy the show when attending with their younger siblings, it is not ideal for entire school groups aged 10 and up (unless they are specifically attending to study the puppet show critically as part of their school puppetry unit). While preps and children aged 5 may enjoy the show with their older siblings or older students, the show has not been created to engage audiences aged 5 and under. That is, Hijabi Girl is not a puppet show for childcare centre audiences.

If you would like us to provide an opportunity for school groups aged 10 and up, including secondary school Drama and English curriculum student groups, we can present our practical Puppetry Performance Workshops featuring up to 50 hand puppets students can use for the duration of the workshop. If you would like to provide an opportunity for audiences 5 and under, we can offer to present our popular Comedy Variety Puppet Show or our Story Time Puppet Show, both which align with Queensland Government’s First 5 Forever child development philosophies: Talk, Read, Sing, Play, Dance and Move.

TEACHER’S RESOURCES

Hijabi Girl Teachers Resource Kit Hijabi Girl: School Play Performance Script Hijabi Girl: Book Sample

PRODUCTION DETAILS

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Ideally, the theatre will feature a sound system and controllable stage lighting that can be managed by an inhouse or local ‘for hire’ sound and lighting technician.

In ‘black out’ or darkened theatres, we will include a 5-minute UV Blacklight component in the show. We will bring our own UV blacklights.

We would prefer to connect to an inhouse sound system, particularly for large audiences. We can use our own PA speakers, but these will only be suitable for audiences of under 100.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 14 of 18 As children's shows are often held mid morning, we'd prefer to bump in, in the afternoon or evening before, to properly test the sound and lighting and be well rested for a morning performance.

If a show is held in the evening, we can bump in on the same day.

We have two different sized puppet hides/stage sets to accommodate a variety of theatre stage sizes.

Alternatives we will consider:

If a venue has no access to sound or stage lighting (e.g. a daylit hall), we can adapt the show to suit. We can use our own sound system for audiences of under 100. Stage lighting components would be excluded. The 5 minute UV puppetry segment of the show will be altered to exclude UV Blacklight puppetry. For such venues, we would not require the services of a sound and lighting technician.

EXAMPLE SCHEDULE

For a Wednesday 10am show:

Tuesday 12pm-4pm: Arrive, load in, set up staging/props/sets, and test sound and lighting.

Wednesday 8am: Arrive, load in puppets, set up puppets, and final sound and lighting check. 10am-10.45am: Puppet Show 10.45am-11.05am: How The Puppets Work Demonstration and Q&A. 11.05-11.20: Backstage/behind the scenes tour 11.20-11.30: Casual Meet & Greet/Photos in the foyer (if COVID restrictions allow) 11.30-2.30pm: Lunch, pack down, bump out.

CREW REQUIRED FROM VENUE

Sound & Lighting Technician to set up and test inhouse sound and lighting:

• 1 hour: Sound and lighting set up and test with Larrikin Puppets the day prior to the show (ideal in order to solve any problems) OR 1 hour sound and lighting set up and test in the hours prior to the show (not ideal in case of problems). • 3 hours: Sound & Lighting Technician for performance including set up and packdown. • Total 4 hours (1 hour the day prior and 3 hours the day of the show).

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 15 of 18 STAGE

Large Stage Option, Space Required: • Proscenium 8m wide, 4m high (ideal for backdrop set, but not essential). Minimum 3m height required. • Stage space 2m from apron to front of puppet set. Minimum depth of 2.5m from puppet set to backdrop. Total depth of performance space 4.5m. • Puppet set dimensions - 6m wide puppet hide and a 7m wide, 3.7m high scenic backdrop/set.

Small Stage Option, Space Required: • Proscenium 5m wide, 3m high. • Stage space 1m from apron to front of puppet set. Minimum depth of 2m from puppet set to backstage. Total depth of performance space 3m. • Puppet set dimensions – 4.5m wide x 1.72m high puppet hide. No scenic backdrop/set.

To ensure puppeteers remain hidden, we cannot do theatre-in-the-round or have audiences located in high balcony seating.

Larrikin Puppets to supply:

• Push up puppet hide, push up back drop, puppets, props.

Venue to supply:

• Standard masking • Seating

LIGHTING

• 6 x focused profile specials from front of house to create 3 separate scene areas on the puppet set OR 1 stage wash on the puppet set. • Frost (if possible, supplied by venue) or lens soften focused profile specials. • Backdrop lit from overhead like a cyc wash, if possible. • UV Blacklight rigged front of house if possible OR on H stand on stage apron (supplied by us/toured). • Full stage wash for post show bows/demonstration/Q&A. • No backlighting

Larrikin Puppets to supply:

• UV Blacklight/s, H stand, Gclamp, safety cable • Script with lighting cues (e.g. for scene changes and UV Blacklight) for sound and lighting technician.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 16 of 18 Venue to supply:

• Dimmers to suit • Front of house fixtures • Cyc wash, if possible • Frost, if possible

SOUND

Multicore side stage to connect two receivers for our wireless headset mics plus two lines for playback for our Stereo DI box (supplied by us/toured).

Sound tech to control volume and levels. No script cues.

Larrikin Puppets to supply:

• 2 x Wireless headset mics with receivers for multicore connection • Stereo DI box with XLR input cables for multicore connection

For venues without inhouse sound systems and multicores/mixing desks, we can provide a sound system for audiences of under 100 only.

Venue to supply:

• PA with multicore side stage

No AV required.

WARDROBE

We do not need wardrobe nor dressing rooms. We as puppeteers arrive dressed and ready to perform.

Although welcome, we don’t need a green room.

FREIGHT NOTES

Parking for a Hyundai iLoad van with a 2 metre height clearance.

Access to a loading dock or shortest access to the theatre stage is ideal. We will be unloading portable staging, sets, props, UV lighting and 4-5 bags of puppets.

[Hijabi Girl: A Musical Puppet Show] Page 17 of 18 ACCOMMODATION

Minimum 3 star accommodation with free WIFI - 1 double room (husband and wife touring team).

CRITICAL ISSUES

A complete black out is ideal so we can include a 5 minute scene that includes UV blacklight puppetry (see above), but the show can most certainly be enjoyed without the UV component.

We cannot do theatre-in-the-round or have audiences located in high balcony seating.

We have a Covid Safe Plan designed to keep audiences and puppeteers safe, should that still be required at time of tour.

CONTACTS

Tour Manager, Puppeteer: Elissa Jenkins, 0418 786 986, [email protected]

Principal Puppeteer: Brett Hansen, 0430 086 835, [email protected]

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