Oh this looks splendid. WONDERFUL design! Thanks for the link. I love the fact that the scale is fiendishly difficult to figure, with people dressed so convincingly to look like puppets.

Talking of scale, go to Basil Twist’s site:

http://www.basiltwist.com/

and click on the page for Hansel and Gretel. There you’ll find a video clip from the production he worked on. The witch is absolutely STAGGERING. A giantess, clearly operated from within, but God knows how. The spindly, gesturally eloquent arms and the flexible upper body are full of grace and subtlety. The gait is fast and complex. She spins and bobs and her movement, languorous and elegant, is as complex choreographically as one might expect from a dancer and not from a towering puppet. I particularly love her swaying, bobbing walk, with the suggestion of muscular haunches under her flowing gown. Then toward the end of the clip there’s a stage-trick with one of the gingerbread children (played by humans in suits) that made my jaw drop. See it and wonder!