The Puppetry Company Dukkenikkerne

Dukkenikkerne has made a number of co operational productions with Nordland Visual Theatre, The National Venue of Theatre in Bergen and Bergen Byspill Theatre Group, among others.

Dukkenikkerne aims to spread good, thought-provoking, entertaining and innovative puppetry for audiences in all age groups. By daily exposing themselves to artistic choices within the actor’s work, script work, stage design, puppet making, costumes etc the members of the group stay in continuous process and development. In addition to the group’s own performances Dukkenikkerne delivers amazing puppets and other figures in all sizes and formats to fellow companies and theatres, and also arranges courses in puppetry.

"Jack Markussen is general manager and artistic director and stands behind performances, scripts, stage designs, costumes and props to Dukkenikkerne’s own productions as well as productions made by other groups and institutions.

A fixed member is Jan Holden, who has been part of the group since 1994, as an actor, puppeteer and technician working on different tasks, lightening among them. Other artists are hired on a per production basis. Actress Gabrielle Barth has been a member since 2003. The artist Monika Solheim has been involved in an unknown number of productions and is hired for sculpting and painting puppets. Marthe Synnevåg has recently moved in to the workshop as a seamstress and costume maker."

Sources:

Dukkenikkerne, dukkenikkerne.no, 07.09.10, http://www.dukkenikkerne.no/dukkenikkerne.html

Ludvigsen, Birthe-Lisbeth 2007: "Frie teatergrupper og prosjektteatre i Bergen, 1970-2006 - en kontekstualisert oversikt og beskrivelse"