{"id":26043,"date":"2026-04-01T13:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/?post_type=tec&#038;p=26043"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:15:46","slug":"tec-principles-in-puppet-making-and-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"tec","link":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/tec\/tec-principles-in-puppet-making-and-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"TEC &#8211; Principle in Puppet Making and Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2014 ABOUT THE PROJECT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this project, a group of 10 students (ages 8 to 16 years old) will be invited to participate in several parts of a puppetry design and workshopping process. These activities will both share with students puppet building techniques, as well as introduce them to part of a theatre creation process conducted by a collective of theatre professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theatre students will get first-hand experience of the process of creating a work of puppetry, including theatre-making, writing and performance workshopping. They will also get hands-on experience in the design and creation of large puppets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theatre students will be able to give invaluable contributions to the creative process, helping to make the show more appropriate and interesting for young audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2014 BIOGRAPHY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Murdoch_Schon-9446-new-words-festival-565px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10016 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Murdoch Schon (Directing, 2020)<\/strong> is a theatre maker, director and puppeteer. Winnipeg-born, they have been involved in the Montreal English theatre scene for almost a decade. Murdoch is fascinated by provocation, vulnerability, and the role of risk and failure in art making. Murdoch believes that theatre rises to its true power through the practices of ritual liminality, community and imagination. Murdoch is enamoured with scale, the breadth and sweep of history.\u2009\u2009They insist on the wondrous nature of theatre as a transformative space where rulers can fail, heroes can rise and monsters seem more familiar than angels.\u2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentors at NTS: Jackie Maxwell, Tanja Jacobs, Lezlie Wade, Michael Wheeler, Sarah Garton Stanley, Clea Minaker, Dean Fleming, Seana McKenna, Jean Asselin, Eda Holmes, and Rose Plotek.\u2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected directing credits: it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now \u2009by Lucy Kirkwood,\u2009The Dumb Waiter\u2009by Harold Pinter,\u2009Celestial Serendipity\u2009\u2009by Russell Wiitala,\u2009The Woods Witch \u2009by Murdoch Schon, and\u2009\u2009Little One\u2009\u2009by Hannah Moscovitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murdoch also has a BFA, Specialization in Theatre and Development, from Concordia University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10016,"template":"","annee":[252],"class_list":["post-26043","tec","type-tec","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","annee-2022-2023-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tec\/26043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tec"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tec"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tec\/26043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26478,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tec\/26043\/revisions\/26478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"annee","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ent-nts.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/annee?post=26043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}