• Into the Woods - Milky White's body was fashioned from a spiralised card tube, with coat hanger ribs and comedy rubber glove udders. The puppeteers opted to keep her head separate from her body - this allowed easier control and allowed for some comedy choreography too.

    Milky White's body was fashioned from a spiralised card tube, with coat hanger ribs and comedy rubber glove udders. The puppeteers opted to keep her head separate from her body - this allowed easier control and allowed for some comedy choreography too.

  • Into the Woods - Milky's head was fashioned from cardboard with bamboo rods to articulate her mouth and ears. Her head was hollow and large enough to hide the items she had to 'eat' during the performance.

    Milky's head was fashioned from cardboard with bamboo rods to articulate her mouth and ears. Her head was hollow and large enough to hide the items she had to 'eat' during the performance.

  • Into the Woods - An old oak tree doubled as Rapunzel's tower. The tree side featured hand painted moss and artificial ivy.

    An old oak tree doubled as Rapunzel's tower. The tree side featured hand painted moss and artificial ivy.

  • Into the Woods - Rapunzel's tower used patterned wrapping paper to suggest a tower built from books.

    Rapunzel's tower used patterned wrapping paper to suggest a tower built from books.

Into the Woods

Theatre design

Set and puppetry for Glasgow Music Theatre's production of Into the Woods. As the show revolves around fairy tales, the design brief was for the set to look as if it was from of books. The various set pieces (and Milky White the Cow) were constructed from found materials like paper, card, coat hangers, garden canes, and chicken wire. They were then covered with pages from unwanted books before hand-painted details were added. The set pieces were mounted over existing wooden structures. Milky White, Jack's beloved cow, still lives in my house to this day (or her head does, at least).