The South African 'Handspring Puppet Company' won a special Tony award for which play?
Handspring Puppet Company the National Theatre in London on 5 October 2010, following previews from 28 September. The show has been described as "an intimate history of two very private lives, lived in extraordinary times." It closed on 18 November 2010. For the Broadway production of "War Horse", the company has received an Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award for "Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for "War Horse"", and they are also a recipient of the 2011 Special Tony Award. Handspring Puppet Company The Handspring Puppet Company is a puppetry performance and design company established in 1981 by Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones,
Handspring Puppet Company Handspring Puppet Company The Handspring Puppet Company is a puppetry performance and design company established in 1981 by Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, situated in Cape Town, South Africa. Thys Stander is the company's chief puppet maker. Jones and Kohler met at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. At first, they designed puppets for children-targeted productions, which Jones initially disliked. Kohler "introduced him [Jones] to the west African tradition of puppetry for adults," working with Malcolm Purkey and Barney Simon, among others. 1987 saw their exhibition of "Unmasking the Puppet" at UNISA. Prior to that, Esther van