About   Richard Hart   Australia

DREAM PUPPETS is created and performed by RICHARD HART

Richard started puppetry while an art student in Sydney during the late 1970’s. It took three years of architecture and five years of art training before realising that puppetry was his real passion. Experiencing world class puppetry at a major festival in Hobart in 1979 was decisive, resulting in experiments with puppetry and slide projections. The outcome was an early production called The Angler Fish Ballet, which won an award at the next major Australian International Puppet Festival in Adelaide, 1983.

Since moving to Melbourne in 1984, Richard has worked in sound and video production, was a graphic designer, teacher, puppet maker/designer, created several puppet productions while raising a daughter who became a ballerina with the Australian Ballet. In between all these were many workshops and training sessions with master puppeteers from around the world to develop his performance skills and a four year position as treasurer and secretary of UNIMA Australia, an international puppetry organisation.

Some of the many puppetry groups Richard has worked with are Gardner Puppets, Murphy’s Puppets and Polyglot Theatre. He as worked as a puppet maker for film and television, including Pig’s Breakfast and as the performer of Webster the swamp monster in the channel 7 series L,ll Horrors.

DREAM PUPPETS is an experience of one persons’ vision. Richard wrote the shows, designed them , made the puppets, sets and stage and performs them. The wonderful music soundtracks that run through the performances is by John Grant who has brilliantly interpreted Richard’s vision to music.
 

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