Cardboard Creatures

Want to create complete weirdos out of inanimate objects? Sculpt new landscapes from brown boxes and packing paper? Perhaps you just really like puppets and want to pretend you’re part of Jim Henson’s cool gang.

Puppetry allows us to do things on stage we would never do with our own bodies, take risks unavailable to the limited human physiology and physics. There's an amazing freedom in speaking through innanimate objects instead of our own voice, using simple objects in ways they were not intended.

This workshop will show you just how much fun can be had with something as simple as a toilet roll tube and some tissue paper. You will explore shared creature creation, emotions through faceless characters, and using simple objects to create beautiful & surprising scenery. It will be cute, and most certainly weird. Come play!

Jennifer Jordan is an improviser, teacher, songwriter, actor, and sign language interpreter who utterly loves all things creative. After training in acting for 3 years and working as a touring actor for 8, she then discovered improv and never looked back. Jennifer currently plays the international festival circuit with Somewhat Theatre - an improvised absurdist theatre group - and has previously performed with: The Maydays (2019-2022), The Concept - Improvised Concept Album, Impromptu Shakespeare, and Actor’s Nightmare.

As well as being obsessed with Shakespeare (check out her webseries Sonnet Sisters), Jennifer utterly loves puppets and In 2018 she directed 'Boxed In', an improvised puppetry show full of cardboard, in collaboration with Chris Mead.

Basically, Jennifer just loves all the things and wants to bring every facet of her own obsessions into improv.