Half a String create, explore, and share spectacular worlds to get lost in. Through high quality live performance, powerful original stories are told that cross generations to create shared meaningful experiences. Design is at the forefront of everything we do, with miraculous transforming sets bringing a collective wonder of discovery. Intricate detailed puppetry finds the epic in the tiny, and focuses on the importance of the small. Live atmospheric music explores and creates living, breathing soundscapes with-in our work.
Half a String champions imagination and finds the joy in creation. As well as live performance we publish books, release albums, and create digital work to enrich the experience of our projects. We take great pride in hosting workshops and experiences to empower others of all ages to find their own form of creativity and imagination.
Our first production A Heart at Sea was launched in April 2016 in a secret garden, in the pilgrim’s city of Canterbury. This is collaboration between Half a String’s Artistic Director Peter Morton and associate artist Avi Simmons, and since then it has grown into a performance that is toured nationally 2017-2019. A Heart at Sea was hugely well received at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival playing to sold out audiences, had multiple 5 star reviews and won the Drayton Arms Eddies Award. Boulder was their next major production, philosophical epic folk puppetry that and received critical acclaim in 2019. We also launched Under the Frozen Moon in 2019, a stunning winter show about a girl adventuring to give a dragon a hug, alongside this we published a fully illustrated storybook.
Half a String works regularly around the south east with venues to deliver workshops and have forged a reputation for intricate puppetry and complex set design through numerous commissions for other companies across the UK.
Half a String champions imagination and finds the joy in creation. As well as live performance we publish books, release albums, and create digital work to enrich the experience of our projects. We take great pride in hosting workshops and experiences to empower others of all ages to find their own form of creativity and imagination.
Our first production A Heart at Sea was launched in April 2016 in a secret garden, in the pilgrim’s city of Canterbury. This is collaboration between Half a String’s Artistic Director Peter Morton and associate artist Avi Simmons, and since then it has grown into a performance that is toured nationally 2017-2019. A Heart at Sea was hugely well received at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival playing to sold out audiences, had multiple 5 star reviews and won the Drayton Arms Eddies Award. Boulder was their next major production, philosophical epic folk puppetry that and received critical acclaim in 2019. We also launched Under the Frozen Moon in 2019, a stunning winter show about a girl adventuring to give a dragon a hug, alongside this we published a fully illustrated storybook.
Half a String works regularly around the south east with venues to deliver workshops and have forged a reputation for intricate puppetry and complex set design through numerous commissions for other companies across the UK.
Core Creative Team
Artistic Director
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Peter is a visual artist who specialises in intricate puppet design & complex set. As artistic director of Half a String he strives to craft powerful stories that use puppetry & stunning set as a fulcrum. In his design work he is greatly inspired by The Handspring Puppet Company, Japanese Bunraku Puppet Theatre, and visual art. He has worked as a performer & designer with Half Moon Theatre (Dust), Theatre Témoin (The Marked & Roots), Sparkle and Dark (I AM BEAST), Stuff and Nonsense (3 Little Pigs), The Gulbenkian Theatre, The Marlowe, The Big Reveal (Dancing on Armistice Day), House of Stray Cats (Invisible Me), Futures Theatre (Cracked Plaster Sky), and is co-founder of Knuckle and Joint Theatre Company. www.peter-morton.co.uk |
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Associate Artist
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Avi Simmons is a singer-songwriter and performer based in Canterbury, Kent. An associate artist of Half A String, she co-wrote & performed in their previous production A Heart At Sea. She performed as a Musician/Clown in Box Clever (2017) A Marlowe - nabokov production, and is a company director and performer for clown company Acá Theatre. For over 8 years, Avi has performed her music solo, gigging all over the country. Her studio releases include two Eps, Hey Why (2018) and You Said 'Live (2016).
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Emma Willatts
Associate Artist
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Emma Willatts is an experienced theatre director, dramaturg and practitioner, based in Kent. Emma’s passion is in finding solutions to creative problems and all of her roles are underpinned by a love of sharing stories. Emma has worked as a director and/or dramaturg on A Heart At Sea, Boulder, Under The Frozen Moon, Seedling, Puppet Van and Breathe, and has loved working alongside Pete and the performers to develop the style of Half A String. Outside of her work with this company, she can be found based at Gulbenkian as the Creative Engagement Practitioner, where she also runs the youth companies, who have developed a strong reputation for creating high quality work, including twice being invited to transfer their show to the National Theatre. She has recently produced a short film for BBC Arts New Creatives.
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Contact us here:
Peter@halfastring.co.uk For all enquires about touring please email: touring@halfastring.co.uk Twitter: @HalfaString Facebook: www.facebook.com/HalfaString/ |
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