Since Lockdown and 2022 Meg has decided not to perform shows or employ puppeteers any longer, so our most popular recent shows Apple Pip and Pip’s Wildlife Garden will no longer be available to tour. Apple Pip clocked up 217 performances in two different versions, with the original puppeteer Suzanne Arnold, and later Steve Peck …read more…
Current Productions
New for 2021 – 2 Birds by Zoom
Meg has established a regular relationship with the Red House Aldeburgh (Britten Pears Arts) Mini Music Makers group, performing a show and a workshop in the winter of 2019/2020 and expecting to work there again in the summer, but Covid 19 lock-down brought that to a halt. In January 2021, she was asked by Joe …read more…
Apple Pip at the Cider and Song Festival
Back by Popular request! Saturday October 19th 2019 11.30 and 2.30 for 3 – 6 year olds or a family audience At the Cider and Song Festival at the Museum of East Anglian Life, MEAL, Iliffe Way, Stowmarket, IP14 1DE First produced in 2003 with Suzanne Arnold performing, Meg designing and scriptwriting, and Iklooshar …read more…
Apple Pip back on tour!
Joy Haynes (director) and Meg Amsden (performer) have been working on a new version of Nutmeg’s much loved show Apple Pip. First performance: Saturday October 20th at 11.30 and 2.30 2018 At the Cider and Song Festival at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Iliffe Way, Stowmarket, IP14 1DE https://www.eastanglianlife.org.uk/ (read more)
Pip’s Wildlife Garden on Tour
“Delightful puppet adventure” – the new 35 minute version of Pip’s Wildlife Garden was a great hit at the Flipside Festival, Snape and Lowestoft, in October. Ideal for 3 – 6 year-olds or a family audience. Now available for booking for schools, nurseries, and small theatres, community events, festivals, and parties. Also perfect for outdoor …read more…
Pip’s Wildlife Garden at Flipside Festival
A new version of Pip performed by Meg and directed by Joy Haynes. Premiere at Flipside Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, IP17 1SP. Sat Oct 7th at 3pm and Sun Oct 8th at 3.15pm. (read more) Tickets £6.00 per family. 01728 687110 https://www.flipsideuk.org Also at Lowestoft Library: Tues Oct 24th and Thurs Oct 26th 2.30pm. …read more…
Pip’s Wildlife Garden
Come with Pip to the wild, glorious, overgrown jungle at the bottom of her garden. Watch the hedgehog feasting on snails, see the barn owl hunting, and if you are lucky, dance with the hare by moonlight. But wait a minute! What’s grumpy Gran doing here; clearing brambles, putting up fences, digging the earth, and …read more…
Spooky Folk
Spooky Folk – for adults and brave children. A collection of short shadow-puppet pieces with filmed atmospheric backgrounds and soundtracks; based on macabre English, Scottish and Irish folk songs about women, and sung by unusual singers: Nos. 1 – 3 available as a live puppet shows, or on film – for festivals, theatres, and cabaret …read more…
Psyche! Open the Box!
A film by Nutmeg Puppet Company with music by Jane Wells. Psyche, the youngest and prettiest of the king’s three daughters, attracts the attention of the naughty god Cupid, and the raging jealousy of his mother Venus. Abandoned by her lover, alone and pregnant, Psyche must carry out 3 dangerous trials, and go down to …read more…
Famous Five Birds
At 15 mins, our shortest available show! Famous Five Birds – the show – was created as part of a project involving children from 10 schools; a puppeteer and maker (Meg Amsden); a composer (Nathan Williamson); a poet (Matt Howard); two bird experts (Steve and Kathy Piotrowski); a video maker (Debra Hyatt); a bird song …read more…