Three giant lips puppets in the dark. They're lit up red and sparks shoot up from the puppets.

The Lips

A dazzling and surreal pop puppet sing-along spectacle

Meet: The Lips

Dive into a world of energetic singalong with The Lips. This show-stopping creation delivers a powerful punch of glam and glitz, perfect for festivals and standout events. Explore The Lips.

The Lips are a chorus of delightfully deviant divas whose mouths have broken free from their bodies! A midscale, spectacular mix-tape big puppetry show, The Lips reanimate our favourite songs to celebrate our shared love of popular music and uphold our freedom to sing loudly, through a big pop puppetry performance that is seductive, luminous and mesmerising.

  • “The Lips were just so fabulous...!”

    Roxy Robinson, Director of Sky Festival

The Lips are available in two formats

The show formats are combinable and we can offer a mixture of shows across your event, during the day and into nighttime, e.g. one walkabout daytime show and two night-time static shows, or two walkabout daytime shows and one night-time static show, or three walkabout shows. We can perform up to three shows a day with an hour’s break between.

THE LIPS NIGHT-TIME STATIC SHOW

A playful trio of luminous, lip-synching divas, The Lips come alive at night!

Highly expressive, The Lips change colour to compliment the playlist, melting from red, to pink, to green, yellow and blue, with moments of show-stopping pyrotechnics and smoke effects throughout. The perfect finale to your festival or event, our karaoke-style LED displays encourage audiences to join in as our big puppet divas lead them in a joyful singalong celebration of popular music. From Bowie to Beyonce, there’s a trailblazing track for everyone.

A 30-minute long static show in which The Lips are illuminated in darkness. The static show must include pyrotechnics, smoke grenades, dynamic lighting, big wrap-around sound, and LED lyric sing-along displays.

Two people holding each other in between the three big lips puppets, which are glowing red at night.

THE LIPS WALKABOUT SHOW

Send The Lips out to strut their stuff in a local green field, town centre or space of your choosing! The Lips come equipped with wearable portable speakers which allow them to roam freely, serenading unsuspecting passers-by, creating celebratory commotion and delighting all who encounter them.

Floating at 3M high, The Lips sing out above the heads of audiences. During the day they wear a pop of red lipstick, making them hard to miss in a crowd. At nighttime, they’re even more spectacular, using creative lighting technology to switch between a dazzling range of illuminated colours.

Audience and Event Engagement

Let’s create a site-responsive new mix-tape show for your event and collaborate with you to include your needs. Just say hi and let’s see what is possible.

We also offer choir inclusion and high-energy dance engagement activities.

Check out our sing-along choir resource here

Three giant lips puppets in the dark. They're lit up red and sparks shoot up from the puppets.
Two people holding each other in between the three big lips puppets, which are glowing red at night.
Two large lips puppets lit up green in front of a crowd at night.
Three giant red lips puppets and their puppeteers, in front of a small crowd.
Three large lips puppets, glowing yellow, in front of a crowd at night.
Three large lips puppets in the dark, glowing green.
Three large puppets shaped like pairs of red lips. The puppeteers stand on a promenade and are reflected in the water in front of them.
Three puppeteers with models of giant red pairs of lips, one kneeling, in front of a toddler in a park.
Three giant lips puppets in front of a crowd. The photo is blurred as if by motion.
Three giant lips puppets and their three puppeteers. The puppets are lit up red/orange in the dark.
Three puppeteers with the giant red lips models, standing on grass behind a person on a bench, who has turned to watch them.
Three puppeteers, each on one knee with a large lips puppet.
Three giant lips puppets and their puppeteers in a line, glowing red in the dark.

Cast and Creatives

Artistic Director: Ivan Thorley
Designer: Caroline Bowman
Director: Rob Tygner (Previously: Andy Dawson)
Writer: Andrew McCaldon
Lighting & Technologist: Jonathan Hogg (Output Arts)
Puppet Mech Designer: Nick Barnes Puppets
Assistant Director: Sam Clark
Costume and Harness Maker: Maya Lohse
Pyrotechnics: Paul Bryce (Lightfires) and Asher Heigham
Production Management Consultant: Gab Burden
Puppet Makers: Richard Gray, Maia Kirkman-Richards, Arna Kristjansdottir and Chelsey Lee
Puppeteers: Abigail Matthews, Olivia Bourne, Larissa Pinkham, Jeremy Hancock, Elaine Hartley (Past performers: Phoebe Hyder, Ed Wood, Tea Poldervaart, Romina Hytten, Tom Stacy, Peter Twose, Katrina Wesseling, Iskandar Sharazuddin, Tom Wilton, Bertie Harris, Laura Reeves, Matt Rudkin)
Videographers: Jack Parker, Summer Dean and Jon Purchase

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