Creations - Puppets
As highly skilled designers and makers of puppets with years of experience creating characters for stage and screen, Pickled Image has developed a strong and flourishing strand to their work which has included commissions from BBC, Green Ginger, Garsington Opera, The Wright Stuff Theatre of Puppets to name but a few…Character design and construction are a speciality of the Company, here are examples of our most popular characters which have been made for a variety of projects.
The King of Pain
The Carnival Caller
The Evil Genius
The Big Bad Wolf
Mr Jones
The King of Pain
A very popular character from ‘Houdini’s Suitcase’, The King Of Pain is a full-bodied puppet made from foam and papier-mâché. Freak shows and fakirs inspired us with the design and appearance of this puppet with Tim Burton’s ‘A Nightmare Before Christmas’ being hugely inspirational as a starting point for creating this character in the show.
Carnival Caller
Another hit from ‘Houdini’s Suitcase’, this puppet has a real presence on stage with an exquisite costume made by Finnish designer Maija Nygren. A real cigar used to be rigged in his mouth, which could be made to puff with a trigger mechanism.