David Burchhardt

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🧳 And just like that, our 2023 tour has drawn to a close

🎟️ Over 60 shows, 14 venues, 4 months and a whole heap of gorgeous audiences, it has been a true pleasure taking this special show out on the road

⭐️ We are hugely indebted to our insanely talented creative team, who pulled (and held) this beauty together; Hattie, Molly, Matt, David Burchhardt, Tea Poldervaart, George Bellamy, Kate McStraw, Sofia Stephanou, Erin Caitlin Karn, Jon Ouin, Sam Redway Wells, Sherry Coenen, Chris Marsh-Hilfiker, Tom Lightbody, Charlotte Cross, Claire Cousins

🚂 To all who came; thank you! We can’t do this without you!

🗓️ To all our fabulous venues who programmed it, we also can’t do it without you!

❤️ To those who funded it (Arts Council England and Enterprise Arts Trust), special thanks to you too

👞 To those who missed it, we’re delighted to say will be back next year. If you’d like to book the show, drop Matt ([email protected]) a line



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Hello friends!

I’m starting a YouTube channel to embark on an ambitious/huge/bonkers (delete where appropriate) project of visiting every theatre in the UK!

I’m hoping to travel across the country and profile each and every theatre to highlight the history and importance of, as well as exploring the challenges and future prospects of the UK theatre industry.

All the content will be available on the YouTube channel: The UK Theatre Tour, and on the Instagram page

Here’s the prologue of the project:

https://youtu.be/NP4T8aKX2AY?feature=shared

Hope you’ll be able to join me on this huge adventure.

See you on the stage.

Curtain up!

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PROLOGUE Welcome to The UK Theatre Tour! Join me as I attempt to visit every theatre in the country.Many thanks to Kevin Jackson and The Lantern Theatre, Sheffield fo...

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KINDER OPENS TODAY!

Very excited to be kicking off the tour at as part of their Children’s Puppet Festival!

We’re on all week until Sunday, tickets can be found on the Little Angel and Smoking Apples websites where you’ll find all the details!

Ready for an adventure?

Very excited to be heading out on tour!

🎉It’s time y’all! We’re over the moon to finally announce our Autumn tour of

🧳 We’re kicking it off late August at our second home Little Angel Theatre as part of their before hitting venues up and down the UK

🏆🏆🏆 is a three time award winning show about the Czech Kindertransport where the audience sit inside a bespoke set and a beautiful story of table top puppetry and cinematic shadow play unfolds around you!

🎟️ Head to our website for info on tickets booking (link in bio) and remember that has very limited capacity so get in there early!

👏 Huge thanks to Arts Council England and Enterprise Arts Trust for funding this activity! See you on the road!



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The puppet crew! What a great day we all had at the May Fayre today!

Puppetry, joy and laughter!

Wonderful memories from 🧡

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Happy World Puppetry Day! 🎭

Thank you for all the lessons learnt and the stories told. Looking forward to what the future holds.

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Curious School of Puppetry 2023 ❤️

What a joy the last 8 weeks have been. It’s been incredibly refreshing to get back into training, to learn, unlearn, relearn, discover, rediscover and play. I can’t wait to put what I’ve learnt into practice and I’m excited to see where it leads me.

It’s also been valuable in my own personal development and reassuring on the growth and improvement I’ve been on in the last 6 years since graduating drama school. Long may this continue.

I’m grateful to and all the tutors on the course for their expertise and support. To my amazingly talented cohort who inspired me everyday. To everyone who supported us and the school over the last 8 weeks coming to Soup Nights and our final sharings. THANK YOU TO YOU ALL!

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OFFIE AWARD WINNERS!

Absolutely thrilled and proud of all the Smoking Apples team & all their hard work on .

We were nominated for 3 awards in the Theatre for Young Audiences category and won 2:

TYA Music/Sound (designed by George Bellamy)
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TYA Production

Thank you to The Offies and a hearty Mazel Tov to everyone who played a part in this production ❤️

(Picture by Hattie Thomas of me holding the TYA Production award)

Reached the halfway mark of with a fantastic few days exploring marionettes. Loved playing with all the brilliant Lyndie Wright puppets, especially this little guy! Thank you Ronnie, Stan & Sarah for the exploration! It’s a style of puppetry I’d love to do more of and explore further.

Now for a well deserved full weekend off before the final half of the course kicks off. So grateful to be in such a supportive & collaborative environment, and I’m excited for more discoveries and play!

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Super proud of all the team! ❤️

✨ Winner! Well that was a lovely surprise last night! A huge well done to the entire team of on our Ettie award for Theatre for Young Audiences. ✨
Molly Freeman
Matt Lloyd
Hattie Thomas
George Bellamy
David Burchhardt
Sofia Stephanou
Jon Ouin
Sam Redway
Sherry Coenen
Chris Hilfiker Marsh
Tom Lightbody
Charlotte Cross
Claire Cousins
Jess Mabel Jones
Luke Breen
And Ellie Newland

You are all award winners!
Thanks to Little Angel Theatre for hosting us, and everything theatre for your kind words.

Also thanks to our project partners and funders, Arts Council England, Enterprise Arts Trust, The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, The Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Trust, Bob Phillips and Anna Cunnyngham, Harrogate Theatre, EM Forster Theatre, Harwich Festival of the Arts, Create 180 and Folkestone Harbour Arm and our photographers The Other Richard and David Bartholomew.

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Day 4 of 8 weeks today at . Learning, relearning and rediscovering so much already with a fabulous bunch of creatives and teachers!

Tonight is our first Soup Night! Come on down to St Barnabas Dalston every Thursday from 6:30pm for the next 8 weeks for soup, puppetry talks and meeting friends old and new. It’s going to be a blast! 😁

Have been having such a fabulous time at Norwich Puppet Theatre! Had a great week earlier in November training in marionette puppetry with Ronnie Le Drew before kicking off rehearsals for ‘Cinderella’!

Busy week ahead before our preview performance on Saturday. So excited! 😁

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🎄Our wonderful puppeteer/performer David Burchhardt will be in Norwich this Christmas, with Norwich Puppet Theatre

A little birdy also told us that Ronnie Le Drew has been visiting them in rehearsals too so it's definitely not to be missed!🎄

More more information and tickets:

https://puppettheatre.co.uk/event/cinderella/

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It’s been an absolute joy performing with Smoking Apples on the tour of ‘Kinder’. A real honour to perform such an important show, it’s been one of the most rewarding shows I’ve ever been part of.

Thank you to the team and to everyone who came along to see us!

Cracking Saturday with two teams out on the road today. One out and about in Oxford with The Story Museum for and another wrapping up the mini tour at Harwich Festival of the Arts



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Very poignant journey today, on our way to our final stop of the Kinder premiere tour

This week is our final stop on our mini-tour and we're super excited to be visiting Harwich Festival of the Arts. For many of the Kinder children, Harwich was their first point of entry to the UK, travelling over on the ferry from Holland, just like Babi in our story!

Tickets are still available for the shows:
2pm - 1st July: https://www.harwichfestival.com/event/kinder-rd-theatre-hf-2022-3/
11am - 2nd July: https://www.harwichfestival.com/event/kinder-rd-theatre-hf-2022-2/
2.30pm - 2nd July: https://www.harwichfestival.com/event/kinder-rd-theatre-hf-2022/

Arts Council England, Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre



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Such an honour to perform and chat afterwards to Nicholas Winton Jnr, whose father Sir Nicholas Winton saved 669 children on the Czech Kindertransport.

I’m repeating a lot of what Smoking Apples have said already, it was a very special night last night and certainly a highlight of my career so far.

Yesterday evening, we had a very special guest, Nick Winton Jnr, who joined us for our final show

It was a huge honour to perform for Nick, whose father, Nicholas Winton pioneered the Czech Kindertransport and saved the lives of 669 children.

It’s been a glorious few days of shows and we’re hugely humbled how continues to move people and encouraged them to share their stories with us, old or new.

Next stop on the 31st June & 1st July!



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Incredibly profound and moving performances of ‘Kinder’ at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum this week, adding to the depth and relevance of the show.

The museum is fantastic and thoroughly recommended to visit. Many great exhibitions and art throughout. Thank you for having us.

Next stop, Epsom! Follow Smoking Apples for links to tickets 😊

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Thank you everything theatre! What a start!

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Crikey, what’s an absolutely storming start to our week!

The biggest thanks to our incredible creative team; George Bellamy, David Burchhardt, Sam Redway Wells, Sherry Coenen, Sofia Stephanou, Jon Ouin, Charlotte Cross, Claire Cousins, Chris Hilfiker Marsh, Tom Lightbody, Jess Mabel Jones, Luke Breen, and Ellie Newland.

And to our incredible venues, funders and supporters Arts Council England, Enterprise Arts Trust, Little Angel Theatre Harrogate Theatre EM Forster Theatre

Catch us next at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum before we head on to The Horton Epsom and Harwich Festival of the Arts

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Always a joy to be performing with Smoking Apples and to open Kinder at Little Angel Theatre made it even more special! It’s an honour to be involved in this important and unique show.

Thank you Little Angel for having us this week and to all the lovely audiences we’ve had! We’re heading on tour to the National Holocaust Museum, Epsom and the Harwich Festival over the next couple of months, hope to see you there if you can make it.

More info of the show can be found at the Smoking Apples website: https://smokingapplestheatre.com/show/kinder/

Incredibly excited to open ‘Kinder’ this week with Smoking Apples at Little Angel Theatre 😊

*Deep Breath*

It’s Production Week and we’re all set up at our second home t at Little Angel Theatre Not long to go until we open, with just a few tickets left for the run 🎟

https://littleangeltheatre.com/whats-on/kinder/

Arts Council England, EM Forster Theatre, Harrogate Theatre,



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Very excited to start our first dress rehearsals of ‘Kinder’ tomorrow. After starting work on this last year during the lockdowns to it coming together and put in front of a crowd has been so exciting and worthwhile.

Can’t wait to share it with everyone, there’s still tickets for our opening at Little Angel Theatre and more tour dates available on the Smoking Apples website.

Kinder rehearsals are well underway now with our first dress rehearsals tomorrow morning. What better time to share our shiny new, gorgeous photos by The Other Richard.
There are only a few tickets left for Friday 13th May at the Little Angel Theatre, so get them now to avoid disappointment!

https://www.littleangeltheatre.com/whats-on/kinder/

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☀️ On this beautiful sunny day, we’re beaming that tickets for at Little Angel Theatre in May are on sale now! The show has limited capacity so don’t hang about if you want to catch us! 🎟

https://littleangeltheatre.com/whats-on/kinder

Supported by Arts Council England and Enterprise Arts Trust



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Happy World Puppetry Day! 💙

Happy World Puppetry Day everyone. We are super pleased to be working on Kinder again, and currently looking for puppeteers for our Summer outdoor shows Buzz and Arbor, both pictured here!

So on this why not have a go, pick up an object and see how you can bring it to life, and why not challenge your friends to do the same.

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