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The Trick (2012)

Afraid of your own shadow?
You should be

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Driven by a desire to create something original, one man  releases control of his own shadow in the hope that it will discover the kind of  beauty that he can only dream of.

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Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Shadow’ and Franz Kafka. This wordless contemporary fairytale is played to a live original music score.


Featuring angry pegs, dancing scissors, magic taps and flying creatures. The Trick is playful, bizarre, beautiful and tragic.

Watch the video here
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''Utterly mesmerising. Odd Doll have created something unlike anything I have seen before. An excellent piece of work.'' The List

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''An important voice in puppetry… [they] venture well beyond mere adaptation of Andersen and Kafka to make their own compelling mythology.'' Total Theatre

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''Their interaction and understanding of movement is seamless. I would thoroughly recommend going, if only for the ballerina sugar tongs dancing on a river of silver foil!''No Gloss Magazine

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