Three stories about love, loss and letting go. A small, lonely figure invites us into a magical world in which flowers bloom and break, a mask reveals the stranger lurking within, and feathers offer the elusive and dangerous promise of flight; a witch within the heart of a tree demands one life for every group of creatures that passes through her forest, but when humans arrive they are unable to abide by her rule, creating a larger and more terrible tragedy; and the oldest man in the world stumbles into a Paris jazz club just in time to share one last dance.

Created in collaboration with T S Eliot award-winning poet Philip Gross and with an original score featuring a 4-piece jazz combo, Triptych fuses innovative storytelling with a distinctive combination of visual theatre, puppetry and masks that blurs the line between puppet and puppeteer. Magical, lively and somewhat dark.

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Triptych has been developed through Mayfest's Taste, Bristol Ferment and the Tobacco Factory's Prototype.