(27 Jun 2025)
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London – 27 June 2025
1. Various The Herds cardboard animal puppets in Soho area
2. The Herds cardboard animals cross Cambridge Circus
3. Various shots of puppets while cast of "Matilda" sing at Seven Dials
4. Cutaway of people watching The Herds
5. The Herds surrounded by crowd
6. Various shots of actor Juliet Stevenson in Covent Garden as The Herds arrive
7. Various performance by Juliet Stevenson with The Herds
8. Various puppets move through Covent Garden, surround performer Chipo Chung
9. Various shots of puppets watching performance at the Royal Opera House balcony
10. Various performance of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" on The Strand
11. Various shots of puppets arriving at Somerset House with drum performance by Andy Gangadeen
12. Various finale of The Herds at Somerset House
STORYLINE:
Life-sized cardboard animals took to the busy streets of London’s West End on Friday, drawing attention to the effects of climate change.
The Herds are eco-friendly puppets which represent beasts that have had to leave their natural habitats due to global warming.
Moving through Soho and Covent Garden, members of the public watched an array of productions in the city’s theater district.
The cast of musical "Matilda" performed for the puppets. They were followed by Juliet Stevenson, Chipo Chung, actors from "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and singers from the Royal Opera House – before the puppets arrived at Somerset House with drummer Andy Gangadeen.
The Herds is an art project that started in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April, and is traveling around the world, eventually ending up at the Arctic Circle.
The puppets will move through cities and urban environments to meet the people there, and will be joined by more puppeteers and puppets of native species as they go.
In the U.K., wolves and red deer joined the gorillas, elephants and panthers.
The next stop for The Herds is Manchester, U.K., before they travel to Denmark, Sweden and Norway later in July.
This project is the latest from the team behind The Walk in 2021, where a 12-foot tall puppet of a refugee girl called Little Amal drew attention to the refugee crisis by traveling to 15 countries.
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