Handspring Puppet Company: S. African Puppeteers

This puppeteer company started designing puppets for children´s productions but later changed to adult productions inspired by the West African puppet traditon.

They now perform across South Africa, England and the USA.

Handspring Puppet Company is a puppetry design, performing and scenic company founded in 1981 in Cape Town by Adrian Kohler  and Basil Jones. Thys Stander is the chief puppeteer.