Puppet Sports takes the concept of improv games and applies it to puppetry, with great success. Brought over here by some Canadian puppeteers, this season was its Australian premiere.

Let’s start with the venue. At the Perth Concert Hall, they’ve set up a rather large marquee on the back balcony. With about 100 seats, tonight it was half full; however, the audience was energetic and young. The stage is simple: a rostra, stage left flanked by a keyboard; either side of the stage a set of chairs; stage right, a small desk for the umpire. Onstage, there is a table covered in black cloth at the front, and either side of upstage is a table, which has pilled on it a range of puppets.

Read the full review here:

http://puppetsinmelbourne.com.au/index.php/2008/04/09/live_from_unima_2008_review_of_puppet_sp