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Into the Woods 

Dir. Terry Gilliam at Royal Theatre Bath. 

In 2022 I worked for Billie Achilleos on Terry Gilliam's production of Into the Woods. We built the Milky White, bird puppets and prototyped a death puppet that was later cut. The production ran at the Royal Theatre Bath in the summer and Autumn of 2022. 

Director- Terry Gilliam

Co-director- Leah Hausman 

Designer- Jon Bausor

Costume Designer- Antony McDonald

Puppet Designer- Billie Achilleos

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Finished Milky White 

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Billie, Milky and Terry 

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Seeing the show

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Testing the body structure 

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Trying on the prototype with the actor 

The structure went through multiple revisions before the finished puppet. The legs were constructed from varying sizes of PVC pipe with alluminium supports for strength and for the puppeteer to grip onto. 
 
The body was made of retuiculated foam and the head and neck from plasterzote with a mesh for visability. The nose of the final pupet was able to open to put the magical items inside and was created using a push and click bin lid mechanism. .

The body was made of reticulated foam 

Whats on stage recording of the rehearsal room with the practice legs

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Pasterzote head prototype

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Very early prototype 

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Origami test for bird puppets

Walking test

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Prototype of death puppet 

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Actor testing the death puppet

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Production photo of the birds 

Billie testing the death puppet

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Fun workshop times 

Testing the neck and podium 

Testing wing material 

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