CONTACT: jakeseisemanrenyard@gmail.com

WEBSITE:  www.cosmutepuppets.co.uk

GENRE:  Family Audience - Roller-Musical

CAST SIZE (M/F):   Approx. 40 -50

LENGTH:   Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

Based on a forgotten trilogy of children's books by Malcolm Livingstone and John Sheridan, a roller-musical with a "Carz" style look combining large, Henson-esque car characters, humans who interact with them. Music inspired by Grease, Motown and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, plus Busby Berkley and Gershwin style songs. Involving elaborate "road" layouts, the stories are loyal to the three original books highlighting problems with (and solutions for) energy shortages, urban congestion, oil-slicks and bio-engineering. 

GENRE:  Family Puppet Show

CAST SIZE (M/F):   Approx. 6 Puppeteers/Voice Artists

LENGTH:   Various Acts, overall length between 30 and 60 minutes.

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

A series of short stories set around the shores of Antarctica with seal and penguin characters, polar bears, sea birds and visiting humans. Plus model ships and snowmobiles. Each story has a clear moral slant to it and a heartwarming ending.

GENRE:  Environmental Musical

CAST SIZE (M/F):   Between 30 -60

LENGTH:   One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

Based on school musical by Debbie Campbell who has given Jake her blessing to adapt her works for the public audience. A Lion King style adaption set in the Amazon during deforestation in an auditorium dressed as a rainforest. A toucan character and gliding tree-lizard narrator "flown" on wires with animal costumes of monkeys, bats, an anaconda and jaguar and human lodgers; same songs, characters and plot as school play version.

GENRE: Pantomime

CAST SIZE (M/F): Approx. 20 gender neutral roles

LENGTH:  Full length

SUITABLE FOR ALL:    Yes

A pantomime adaptation of the traditional fairytale with a clear environmental slant regarding loss of land to redevelopment, plus plenty of humour, songs, an opening number told with puppets and references to movies, TV shows, popular musicals, traditional tales and nursery rhymes. 

Large scale involving mobile props and flying wires.

GENRE:  Musical Comedy

CAST SIZE (M/F):   Approx. 30

LENGTH:   One Act

SUITABLE FOR ALL:   13 years +

A quirky comedy involving dark magic; characters are turned into birds after ingesting magic bird seed. The play explores social stigmas, problems caused by cliquey and exclusive behaviour and surreal scenarios through extensive use of puppetry and humans interacting with bird puppets.