The Angry Summer
Co-Puppet Designer
Based on The Angry Summer by Idris Davies
Adapted by Hazel Pring & Molly Morgan | Director Hazel Pring & Max Dickinson | Music Director Max Dickinson | Devised By Deio Williams, Dora Croally, Hazel Pring, Mabel Westwood, Max Dickinson, Molly Morgan & Night Akter | Music by Max Dickinson & Rhian Hutchings | Sound Design Max Dickinson & Rhian Hutchings | Puppet Design Deio Williams & Dora Croally | Set Design Mabel Westwood | Scenic Artists | Construction Mabel Westwood, Vanessa Suen & Hazel Pring | Lighting Design Thaddeus Leong & Yiling Liu | Costume Design Hazel Pring | Puppetry Supervisor Ruby Gibbens | Costume Supervisor | Pattern Cutter Haoran (Sunny) Huang | Puppe Makers Elowen Packer, Ryan Dai, Shelly Wang & Simona Roeva | Diorama Makers Heather Shaw & Zach Moore | Film Director Hannah Noone | Videographer Andy Pike | Editor Andy Pike
Supported by the Colwinston Charitable Trust
A Co Puppet design with Dora Croally, The Angry Summer is a devised puppet show and informational film. Created to celebrate and educate a younger audience about the 1926 miners strike in Wales in an engaging way. Commissioned by the Welsh government to remember the strikes 100 year anniversary, this project brings to life Idris Davies collection of poems of the same name about real lived experiences and emotions, through the bold emotive lens of Paul Peter Piech’s a graphic lino print style.
Story Board
Initial Drawings
Working Out Movements and transforming a 2D drawing into a 3D form
Final Design Drwings
Final Puppets- Made by Elowen Packer, Mona Roeva, Shelly Wang,and Ryan Dai
Photography by Andy Pike
