Puppetopia 2024: The Adventures of Curious Ganz

A scientist is born! From the very beginning of time, our hero Ganz is Curious. Is the Earth flat? Are the stars fixed? How does metal hide in stone? His investigations and inventions bring him to the attention of Queen Lizzy the First, a fellow adventurer if only she could escape her skirts. The Adventures of Curious Ganz is a fictitious story based on the true life of 16th-century copper smelter Joachim Ganz with a little leap to Ada Lovelace, Galileo, Al-Buzanji, Brunelleschi… A response to the closing of borders and narrowing of minds this show is a celebration of the new, the strange, the brave, and the curious! Told without words through design, table-top puppetry, and original music, all wildly based on the principles of alchemy.
Great for audiences 8 and up.

The Adventures of Curious Ganz was first performed in July 2018 and co-produced at Little Angel Theatre, London in October 2018 with support from Little Angel Theatre and Arts Council England.

Curious School of Puppetry

Sarah Wright is the artistic director of Curious School of Puppetry. She is a trustee of Little Angel Theatre and was previously an associate artist of Kneehigh. Her work as a puppeteer and puppet director includes Improbable Tao of Glass, Kneehigh’s The Tin Drum, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and Dead Dog in a Suitcase, Little Angel Theatre’s Angelo and Shakespeare’s Globe The Little Matchgirl (and other happier tales).

Liz Walker is the artistic director of Invisible Thread and was co-founder of the renowned company Faulty Optic, touring dark and wondrous puppet performances for adults throughout the UK and Europe from 1986-2008.

Avye Leventis trained at the Lecoq school in Paris (2005-7) and puppeteered in, amongst others, War Horse, Elephantom (National Theatre), Brief Encounter (Kneehigh), Something Very Far Away (Unicorn). Film work includes Gravity, Paddington, and Jungle Book: Origins (all Warner Bros).