00:02From shadow puppets to sports mascots,
00:06Terrapin Puppet Theatre has brought fun and flair to Tasmania for 45 years.
00:13Audiences will come to see a Terrapin work because they know they're going to get puppetry,
00:17they know they're going to get a high quality entertaining experience
00:20that features and champions Tasmanian artists.
00:23The company has steadily grown since it began in 1981.
00:28We've been able to go into far many more places with far many more purposes
00:33than perhaps could have been imagined 45 years ago.
00:37The theatre industry has faced multiple challenges in recent years,
00:42with cost of living, streaming services and the COVID pandemic shrinking audiences.
00:47But Terrapin says it has adapted.
00:50To be able to, I suppose, be pretty tenacious in finding where the audiences are,
00:57and that means going into schools, going into aged care.
01:00They're finding new talent too, teaching fresh puppeteers the tricks of the trade.
01:06The opportunity to build a puppet, huge learning curve,
01:10requires lots of different knowledge, engineering, mechanics, materiality.
01:14Terrapin hopes to continue crafting puppets and plays for years to come,
01:18believing the rise of generative AI will make audiences hungry for more authentic creative works.
01:25We'll want to go to the theatre and see it,
01:28because we know that it's been made by the human hand.
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