09 Mar – 21 Apr 2018
Shakespeare’s Globe
The Arts Desk, The Upcoming, Theatre Bubble, BroadwayWorldUK
The Times, The Guardian, The Stage, Financial Times, WhatsOnStage, Theatre Cat
“Transfixing”
Financial Times
“Ingenious…music and action come together immaculately.”
The Guardian
“Beguilingly beautiful…Gyre & Gimble have made magic with their latest show.”
The Arts Desk
“Some of the most magical and moving puppeteering you will get to see…a remarkable evening.”
The Times
“There are not enough words to praise the work of art that the team of The Four Seasons performed.”
The Upcoming
“This production is spellbinding in its simplicity and for the breadth of its emotional canvas…a creatively nimble, deeply moving experience.”
The Stage
“An emotional rollercoaster, filled with touching and charming moments…a night you will never forget.”
BroadwayWorldUK
“This is puppetry at its finest…a quietly brilliant evening.”
Theatre Bubble
“Feels like something entirely new, a genre unto itself, and a really exciting one at that.”
WhatsOnStage
“This has dramatically transformed for me what is possible with the medium.”
Exeunt Magazine
“A beautiful and accessible performance, somewhere between mime, dance and theatrical epic.”
Theatre Cat
“This vastly skilled team imbue every tiny, sensitive movement with meaning and feeling.”
The Independent
“Gyre & Gimble – Finn Caldwell and Toby Olié – are puppet directors at the top of their game.”
Time Out
Vivaldi’s pictorial masterpiece comes to thrilling, theatrical life in an exhilarating show which combines enchanting visuals with live music. Our master puppeteers join forces with some of London’s finest Baroque musicians to conjure a poetic and emotional narrative in response to Max Richter’s acclaimed recomposition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
This unprecedented collaboration, inspired by the mastery of Japanese Bunraku theatre, explores not only the form and techniques of puppetry, but the crystalline acoustic and candlelit ambience of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in an enchanting new way.
Creative Team
Directors | Finn Caldwell & Toby Olié |
Set & Costume Designer | Paul Wills |
Composer | Max Richter |
Music Arranger & Supervisor | Bill Barclay |
Puppet Design | Finn Caldwell & Toby Olié |
Puppet Supervisor | Daisy Beattie |
Candle Consultant | Paul Russell |
Puppet Fabricators | Nick Barnes, Daisy Beattie, Caroline Bowman, Liz Crossman, Laura Elias, Vicki Fifield, Jo Lakin & Yvonne Stone. |
Cast
Puppeteers | Elisa de Grey |
John Leader | |
Craig Leo | |
Avye Leventis | |
Ben Thompson | |
Swing Puppeteer | Hugh Purves |
Baroque Solo Violin | Jorge Jimenez |
Baroque Violin 1 | James Toll |
Baroque Violin 2 | Alice Earll |
Baroque Viola / Baroque Violin | Aliye Cornish |
Baroque Violoncello | Sarah McMahon |
Harpsichord / Synthesizer | Satoko Doi-Luck |