I can teach you step by step how you design and build your shadow puppets as well as train you to work with them using techniques that fit the needs of your show. Below: puppets I created for different shows. My work in Shadow Theater began in the early 70's, when I was part of the group Transparencias dedicated to Shadow Theater under the direction of Beppi Newberry, at the music academy "Collegium Musicum" in Buenos Aires, Argentina (see here)

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

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

A performance of illuminated paper cutouts and storytelling Artwork and Performance: Patricia O’Donovan Text: Patricia O’Donovan adapted from the story "The Earthquake in Chile" written in 1805 by Heinrich von Kleist Box and lights: Mario Keizman Production: AMBULO Company Paper cutout: The earthquake strikes. A hole in the prison wall lets Jerónimo free. I narrate and play the characters next to a series of panels with my papercuts, illuminated from behind. I also create t

Puppet show based on Volataire's "Candide " For 2 actresses-puppeteers and junk puppets. Concept, design, construction of puppets and scenery, text: Patricia O'Donovan and Louise Blankvoort. On stage: Patricia O'Donovan and Louise Blankvoort. The show premiered in 1988 at the Kahn Theater in Jerusalem for the first Finale of the newly founded School for Visual Theater.

" We saw a great number of shows from many countries in the world. We want to especially mention "Con la Cabeza en las Nubes" ( Head in the Clouds)....that delighted everybody with its originality-in particular Patricia's daring and direct language both as an actress and an object theater puppeteer” Toni Rumbau y Eugenio Navarro. MISCELANEA. El Magazine de la Marioneta. Barcelona,1990 Inspired in fours stories by Eugene Ionesco. Credits: Concept, Text, Direction and Perform

Peep box and storyteller.

What happens when memories of a past love come back to haunt us. Berta is still dressed in her bridal dress. The groom however never arrived and she was left waiting. Now she hears the voices and sounds of that fateful day and she slowly comes out of her coffin. Concept, text, and performance: Patricia O'Donovan Puppet and wooden coffin: Patricia O'Donovan Hadas Ofrat taught at the School for Visual Theater how to carve out a puppet's head from a solid block of wood and the

Scenes from the epic The Ramayana. I was the first to introduce the Indian epics in performance to the Israeli pblic. Credits Puppets: Original, handmade wayang golek puppets from Sunda, West Java, Indonesia Director and teacher: Professor Kathy Foley Text: Kathy Foley. Music: played by the UCSC Gamelan Orchestra directed by Pak Undang Sumarna and recorded for the show. Puppeteer: Patricia O'Donovan Above: Hanuman and his father the Wind God. I learned wayang golek, the trad