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| About the company |
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| The internationally acclaimed Peter Ketturkat
tours all over the world with his shows for family audiences
and for adults. His work is very visual and has no language
barriers, as he uses no or minimal text. Quirky puppets and
objects which he designs and makes himself, live music and beautifully-crafted
sets combine to create witty, humorous and haunting theatre.
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| Peter began performing in 1978 when he moved from
a small German village to the Ruhrgebiet, the industrial heartland
of Germany. This huge change in his surroundings inspired him
to develop a new style of theatre using everyday materials and
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| Peter says: "In my village, we had a few
fruit groves and some small vineyards. As kids, we used to cycle
around the uncrowded country lanes. Most of my family still
lives there. It was great but like many young people, I longed
for the big city. When I got there though, the contrast was
so dramatic, not to say shocking, that I decided to find a way
of transforming the everyday materials and objects I saw around
me into some kind of artistic experience. It wasn't sentimental
nostalgia, it was more to do with finding a kind of poetry in
this new functional, urban environment, celebrating it even.
So ever since then I've been creating theatre shows, installations
and sculptures out of ordinary household objects, junk materials
and industrial metals". >
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