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The Dig In Puppetry Cabaret is designed to stimulate the professional performing arts in Hobart in conjunction with the Articulate Program and the Training Program. The aim of these cabaret evenings is to present short digital puppetry works and explore how they fit into a more informal performance context.

Terrapin is interested in re-contextualising the cabaret genre with the use of digital puppetry and new media performances. Cabaret often consists of easy to perform routines with a microphone, a spot-light and music or comedy. Hybrid and new media performance is often slow to set up, clunky and disengaged in its performance style; in many ways, the antithesis of the brassy cabaret singer or comedian. Terrapin is interested in presenting a cabaret with an emphasis on new media performances including digital puppetry skits, which fit to this faster simpler performance context.

The evening will be held together by a professional MC and consist of acts that have been developed by local performers with the assistance of the Artistic Director. It is envisaged some of these works will be developed through Terrapin’s Training and Articulate Programs.

A key objective of this initiative is to encourage artists from around the state to try smaller works which can flow into a larger proposals for the Articulate program as well as vice versa, where works that are prepared for the Articulate season are distilled down to a cabaret format.

Terrapin is creating pathways for artists to fully develop new ideas in a variety of performance and development programs, so that the best ideas get thorough process and performance opportunities.

Ryk Goddard in Helena and the Journey of the Hello