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Tragic Carpet Visual Theatre
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Movement based visual theatre. We use object theatre, puppetry, circus, mime, music, projection, and light to explore stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Edinburgh and touring. Freda O'Byrne: https://tragiccarpet.com/
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🙏🏻 Thank you to the friends and colleagues who came to our wee sharing yesterday.

Our Suitcase Story 🧛Nosferatu ⚰️ has really developed over the last few weeks but it's not a show until there's an audience there with you!

😊 We learnt so much from performing to this first test audience...
... (Southbank Centre) and Matchmaker Theatre’s The Real William Shakespeare… as told by Christopher Marlowe (EdFringe). Jen's work explores themes of self-invention, death fear/death drive, and finding your place in a world in which you don't easily fit.

#nosforatu #dramaturg #dramaturgy #theatre
📣 Introducing the Nosferatu team...

Jen McGregor - Dramaturg

@jenbitespeople.bsky.social is an award-winning writer, director and dramaturg. Credits include Who Pays the Piper (PPP), The Premorial (Birds of Paradise/Perth Theatre), Ghost Stories (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Divergent Sounds...
❤️ We love tiny things!!! 🔎

💼 Our Suitcase Stories have lots of lovely tiny things.

🥳 In appreciation and celebration of all things small and tiny... please share some tiny things with us in the comments!

👀 We can't wait to see them! 🔎

#suitcasestories #tinyworlds #tinydetails #smallthings #tiny
Freda and Stacey have been working away in the studio at Edinburgh Acting School refining and perfecting all the finer puppetry performances details in Nosferatu.

#puppetryperformancemaking #puppetryskills #tinyworlds #theatremaker #rehearsalroom #theatreindevelopment #nosferatu #suitcasestories
...companies such as Hopeful Monster, Visible Fictions and Edinburgh Lyceum. She's also puppeteered for In The Night Garden and Ed Sheerin!

💫 Stacy has been working closely with Freda on all three Suitcase Stories shows as puppetry director, and she's thrilled to have a big team behind her to...
📣 Introducing the Nosferatu team...

Stacey Mitchell - Puppetry Director

🌍 Stacey is a Scottish puppeteer, puppetry director, actor and singer based in Edinburgh. Her work continues to take her all over the UK and Europe. She has worked as a puppeteer and puppetry director with many theatre....
HR delivering a tasty fruit and nut platter to the creative team in between bursts of 'sticking and pasting' today....

A day of making and repairing.

#puppetrymaking #puppettheatredesign #crafts #nosforatu #setdesign #theatremaker
ensemble piece and presented at the Edinburgh Fringe.

🎼 He was also resident composer for Tragic Carpet's sister organisation First Bite Theatre in Health Education company for over 10 years.

#nosforatu #composer #musicfortheatre #tragiccarpet #music #musicartist #scottishtheatre #theatrecompany
📣 Introducing the Nosferatu team...

John Moore - Composer

🎼 John has composed music for many of Tragic Capet's shows including ‘Island On The Edge Of The World’, ‘Heart Of A Dog’, FishOrMan’ and also for the original production of ‘Nosferatu’ which was first staged as a physical theatre...
🐦‍⬛ It was great to perform Seven Ravens, meet new people and reconnect with old friends. Plus make some new bookings to look forward to!

#thetouringnetwork #touringtheatre #scottishhighlands #sevenravens #suitcasestories #thegathering2025 #ruraltouring #networking #soloshow #travelingperformer
🥰 What a pleasure to attend The Gathering 2025 and meet the many performers, promoters and others for performances, discussions and networking.

🙏🏻 Thank you so much to The Touring Network for organising another great event in Strathpeffer!...
Our Puppetry for Actors workshop is open for bookings

🗓 Saturday 7th June
⏰️ 10am-5pm
🌍 Edinburgh Acting School at Summerhall
💰 £44.50

www.tickettailor.com/events/edinb...

#puppetry #puppetrytraining #puppetryworkshop #puppeteer #actortraining #edinburghactingschool #puppetryskills
Guess what came in the post today...?? 📨

q-lad - a remote controller made specifically to fire qlab cues. We are over the moon!

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