There is no point in building shadow puppets early on when your show is still in its early stages. I will explain why and guide you step by step from storyboard to final construction.

I can help you examine what functions and what does not, and find ways to fix the problems in your show or story.

With Patricia O'Donovan 5 weekly sessions of 2 and a half hours each. Begins .......( no details yet). From 16.00 hrs until 18.30pm Where: Nisim Behar 3, Nachlaot, Jerusalem (my home). Number of participants: 3-6 Price: ( no details yet) You bring your own materials (list below) Throughout different artistic and theatrical traditions, artists have used papercutting in very different ways: to cut a figure out of its background, to cut into the paper so that positive and negati

a) For The Vulture/ Der Geier. Photos Ilya Kreines. b) from his letters to Milena and his father

A highly gestural storytelling performance with illuminated paper-cuts for adults.

How our co-speech gestures support, alter or even contradict the meaning of the spoken words.

I am working on a new show, writing about Kleist, and preparing two new workshops for actors and storytellers.

Group workshops or individual lessons in the techniques of papercutting. Its relationship to folklore, shadow theater, 2D graphic narratives, film and more.

For actors, storytellers, public speakers. Original and unique exercises to learn how and what the hands can express as we speak.

In this workshop we will explore how spoken words interact with 2D images (paintings or photographs) in performance. The interaction is under the control of the performer, who manually changes the pictures as the story progresses. In Kamishibai, a traditional form of storytelling that originated in Japan, all the pictures for the story are contained in a wooden, theater-like box. The audience simultaneously perceives the movements, gestures and words of the storyteller and th

A Jerusalem based company dedicated to Puppet Theater and Storytelling Performances, directed by Patricia O'Donovan

Papercuts inspired on Kafka's letter to Milena Kafka wrote to Milena: Liebe ist, daß du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle, which has been translated into English as “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love,” and into Spanish as “Tú eres el cuchillo que doy vuelta dentro de mí, eso es amor.” I am not convinced that Kafka would have recognized his meaning in either of these translations. Suspecting that the verb wühle carries ass

For my show " On the Theater of the Marionettes" based on Kleist's text. White molding clay.

Playing with the Train Theater of Jerusalem (תאטרון הקרון).A puppet show about the life and invention of Louis Braille.

For my show Nekudat Or, based on the life of Louis Braille

Performed in France as Passé Composé An adult storyteller on stage recounts her childhood memories, when she was 7 years old in Holland, and the Germans invaded. The performer is both the storyteller and the actress that plays the child protagonist. Questions about identity, friendship, loyalty in times of distress and survival from the point of view of an innocent 7 year old child, make the issues more poignant. Credits: Concept, Direction, Performance, Design, Text and

"AMANILI SINGS"( אמנילי שרה) Credits: Akkadian text: Anonymous. Mesopotamia, about 2500 BC. Concept, Direction, Text, Design, Scenery, Shadow Puppets and Performance : Patricia O'Donovan Music written and played live by: Yarden Erez. The lullaby is sung in Hebrew and Akkadian at the end of the show. Stage construction, puppet rods and body-lamp: Mario Keizman. On stage: Patricia O'Donovan and Yarden Erez Co- Production of Ambulo Company and the Train Theater of Jerusalem, 2

For storytellers, puppeteers, visual theater performers, writers of literature, theater or film, teachers and lecturers.

Inspired in Kleist's 1810 essay of same name. (in construction) Credits Direction, Text, Design and Performance: Patricia O'Donovan Stage and Prop Construction: Mario Keizman Music: Ittay Binnun Consultant Dramaturgist: Yael Citron Production: AMBULO Company, with the assistance of the Pays Lottery Agency for Arts and Culture. Pandora Collective. Train Theater of Jerusalem, November 2016. Opening: Festival of the Arts at the Kahn Theater, March 2017