Welcome to The World Through Wooden Eyes, home to the John M Blundall Collection, the finest resource of inspirational, multicultural material for the development of creative puppet theatre in the UK.

The Ideas Store is managed by John M. Blundall, one of the world’s leading puppet masters, director, designer, craftsman, and creator of more than 80 major multimedia puppet theatre productions, and collaborator with national theatre, opera and ballet companies, and Stephen Foster, studio craftsman, designer and creator of puppets and masks.

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Paper automata made for a workshop at Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre

Dezsőo Szilágyi

It is sad news that we hear of the death of Dezsőo Szilágyi. He died on 8 March 2010 aged 88. He was for many years the director of Allami Bábszínház the Hungarian State Puppet Theatre and President of the Publications Commission of UNIMA. Read more here