The Puppet Masters

Eric Bramall (1921 – 1996)

There are few puppet masters worldwide whose talent for bringing a marionette to life before a spellbound audience can also leave other puppeteers watching and gasping in admiration. Eric Bramall was one of the few, so much so even the great Russian puppet master Sergei Obrzstov was happy to call him ‘Maestro’.
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Chris Somerville (1939 – 2023)

Chris Somerville was known to so many here and abroad as puppeteer and director of the Harlequin Puppet Theatre, and to the wider public in North Wales, North West and the West Midlands as Punch and Judy professor and magician; Mr BimBamBoozle.
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Chris and Eric backstage