Puppet Shows

The Man who Cannot Sleep

White Night Melbourne 2018

A surrealist performance combining puppetry and projection, The Man Who Cannot Sleep is a gargantuan emissary from the world of dreams. It is an ode to a civilization on the verge of collapse.

Conceived by Magic Lantern Studio’s Gonzalo Varela and realised in collaboration with Sanctum Theatre’s Lachlan Plain sanctumtheatre . The Man Who Cannot Sleep premieres at White Night 2018. whitenight.com.au/melbourne/

Gonzalo and Lachlan have collaborated on puppet shows since 2013, performing at many festivals, including a sold-out season of Life is a Carousel at the Melbourne International Festival of Puppetry 2017.

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…”The Man Who Cannot Sleep in Queen Victoria Gardens forged a dark and surreal dystopia, packed with visual surprises, from a fusion of soundscape, sculpture and full-body puppetry…”

Review by Cameron Woodhead, THE AGE

Moomba Parade 2018

The bugs in the Parade of Moomba Festival. Sanctum Theatre (Lachlan Plain) and Magic Lantern Studio making mess again.
Thanks Jules Artbus ,Daniel J Mounsey, Nick Nick and Stéphane Hisler. amazings Puppeteers.

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Life is a Carousel

The road to the Tree of Life is long and treacherous, and the forest is littered with the remains of unfortunate travelers…

Life is a Carousel is a chaotic whirlwind of psychotic mayhem, a grotesquery of improbable creatures and they efforts to make sense of a senseless world.

Life is a Carousel premiered to a sold out season at The Melbourne Intenational Festival of Puppetry , La Mama Theatre, Carlton, Melbourne 2017.

“Life is a Carousel” shortlisted for two categories in the Greenroom Awards 2018 (Design and Puppetry)

Winner in Puppetry!!!

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Presented by Magic Lantern and Sanctum Theatre

Devised and directed by Gonzalo Varela and Lachlan Plain

Puppeteers & Performers: Lachlan Plain, Gonzalo Varela, Julian Chapple and Phil Woodman.

Set Design: Gonzalo Varela

Puppets by Gonzalo Varela and Lachlan Plain

Music by Pedro Fuentes

Dramaturgued by John Paul Hussey

Photos by Oscar Socias, Sean Healy and Lucy Parkinson

Big Bugs Puppets : Melbourne Museum

In 2017 Magic Lantern Studio collaborated with Sanctum Theatre to create seven giant bugs for Melbourne Museum: Four bees, a bombardier beetle, an orchid mantis and a dragonfly. These bugs were joined by a red back spider , jewel wasp and cockroach created by A blanck canvas.

Together they descended on the city to promote Bug Lab, an immersive exhibition presented by Weta Workshop and The Papa Museum.

Puppet buiders: Gonzalo Varela, Lachlan Plain, Nick Wilson, Phil Woodman and Danny Miller.

Puppeeters: Lachlan Plain, Gonzalo Varela, Danny Miller, Phill Woodman, Brendan Murphy, Daniel Mounsey, Jhess Knight, Jonathan Macmillan, Daniell Flood, Stephan Hisler, Aiden Min, Stephin Mushin, Lachlan MacCloud and Bao Gislain.

To commission Magic Lantern studio to create puppets or theatrical props for your event, please contact Gonzalo Varela on (+61) 0456961010 or untipocreativo@hotmail.com

“Otto learns to fly.”

Otto has a dream, he wants to fly…

But bears can’t fly… can they?

Otto learns to fly showcases MagicLantern Studio’s exquisitely crafted hand puppets and “ready mades” in the Magic Lantern Travelling Puppet Theatre. Then the action explode onto a much larger scale with Sanctum Theatre’s giant body puppets.

The show leaves us the idea that anything is possible if you really want.