The Puppet Theatre Barge is a unique, fifty-seat marionette theatre on a converted barge in London. The theatre presents puppet shows for children and adults and is moored in Little Venice throughout the year and in Richmond-upon-Thames during the summer.
Puppet Theatre Barge on the River Thames
Barge interior
A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by using a vertical or horizontal control bar in different forms of theatres or entertainment venues. They have also been used in films and on television. The attachment of the strings varies according to its character or purpose.
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine, Les Marionettes polonaises (National Museum, Warsaw)
Ancient Greek terracotta puppet dolls, 5th–4th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Howdy Doody, famous US television marionette.
A display of marionettes used in Supermarionation television series such as Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons at the National Media Museum in Bradford, United Kingdom
