Jeremy Lavender
BIO
Jeremy Lavender joined Little Wing Puppets in 2015, and he has been a creative, fun and energetic member of the team ever since. He’s performed A Little Bit of Blue and Trinket the Robot across Australia, as well as performing on national television for
ABC’s Play School. Jeremy has been building puppets and sets with Little Wing for the last 10 years. He has also co-facilitated many artist residencies in Victoria including building giant puppets for two Upwelling Festivals, working with over 500
students, and Creative Learning Partnership Residencies making masks and Bunraku-style Puppets. Jeremy also co-developed a shadow puppet show Too Much Bats with children at the Wugularr Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory for the Walking with Spirits Festival 2016.
SHOWS
Trinket, The Robot
- Kinder
- Primary
The story is of an inventor, Dr Doovalacky, who, with the help of his assistant, a green caterpillar named Gizmo, sets out to build a robot. But this will be no ordinary robot! Trinket will have the ability to have feelings like a “real” human. The audience helps him to learn about the world, but quickly it becomes more complicated. Dr Doovalacky finds himself losing control of his own creation.
Trinket learns that to become human is to not only feel wonder and joy, but also to feel other emotions like anger, fear and the sadness of saying goodbye to someone when you are not ready to. Having feelings is not easy and to be alive means making difficult choices.
Trinket the Robot is an interactive solo puppet show that provokes a discussion about emotional literacy and provides a framework for younger children to identify their feelings.
A Little Bit of Blue
- Kinder
- Primary
A Little Bit of Blue is an interactive detective story told with puppetry, where you help solve the case. While unravelling a mystery, children learn about the unique habits of the Satin Bowerbird and their fascination for the colour blue. It’s a fun, frolicking mix of slapstick and Detective Noir, along with some intriguing discoveries along the way.
Mrs Mavis Hooley has been looking everywhere. Something’s gone missing and is nowhere to be found. Every day something else small seems to disappear: a $10 note, a ball of wool. But then the thief takes it one step too far!
Mavis calls in a Detective, Harry McGee. He makes a mess of the investigation and the children love always being one step ahead of him. They set a trap. A stakeout is required. In the dead of night, the Detective indeed finds something peculiar. The children’s role is to help him solve the case.
Puppeteer Jeremy Lavender weaves the whole mystery together, sometimes playing three characters at once. The young audience will gasp with surprise, sigh with sadness, shout in outrage, cheer with triumph, and dance with joy as they follow the sneaky bowerbird on his journey to find love.
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