These are actors playing real instruments but pretending to be puppets, with a puppeteer up on a gantry above pulling the strings.
Puppets would be made from available materials, such as old clothes or plastic and the messages presented during public events organised by the young people benefiting from Connecting Classrooms.
In the same month, Wonga appoints Andy Haste as chairman, who scraps the puppets and other light-hearted advertising straight away, and says the firm is going to get smaller and less profitable.
Aerial circus performers, rollerskaters and puppets – including a bicycle-powered duck – roamed James Street from 6pm.
They are puppets being used by the invaders.' In a move welcomed by some of the country's opposition, Mr Kabila promised renewed political freedom this week, saying he would 'liberalise' political activities on January 1 and allow the formation of political parties.
Students and teachers from Soroti district, in north-east Uganda, have received training in using puppets to communicate messages, as part of the British Council's Connecting Classrooms programme.
Puppets have also been found to improve language and literacy skills among young people.
Dramatically, this proves vivid, but it also leaves us with a sense of the characters he plays as purely reactive, puppets of expression.
"The will of the people of European countries is being subsumed by the will of a few little-known officials from the EU who in reality are simply American puppets," declared Andrei Isayev.
His gigs were unpredictable, shambolic affairs, often involving audience participation, puppets, references to Sievey's home village of Timperley, and the mauling of popular hits such as I Should Be So Lucky and Anarchy in the UK.
Puppets create teamwork, even as they entertain and inform the audience.
