Grenville Middleton
Gren Middleton cut his teeth in a film studio. As a cameraman he worked on both TV and film productions. He photographed 11 feature films and numerous documentaries before turning to the marionette theatre. He and his partner created a marionette theatre on a Thames barge and presented numerous presentations for both adult and child audiences.
Productions have included three of Shakespeare's plays and other poetic stories such Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Byron's Manfred as well as commissioning playwright Howard Barker and the poet Wendy Cope, who wrote an original poetic ballad, The River Girl.
Books by Grenville Middleton
Like a Dead Bird Flying- Hardback
By Grenville Middleton
Hardback £14.95
An engaging memoir by Gren Middleton, co-founder of the Puppet Theatre Barge on the river Thames. "I liked the fact that for Gren and Juliet this wasn't an arbitrary stop-gap until something better came along, it was their dream... ...The book is much more than an account of their experiment in puppet theatre, it's also the autobiography of a Middleton, and Gren's tale of his ancestors has a strong theme of travel and adventure as he traces his family back to Victorian entrepreneurship in South Africa, where he was born." - Michael Palin
