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2025
THEATER OF GIANTS
Designed by Jon SHMULEVITCH
Together with 145 young people aged 8-17, we built the world’s largest outdoor shadow theater designed by architect Jon Shmulevitch. A stage where small becomes giant, bodies merge, and objects come alive.
Over six weeks, campers learned a range of building techniques from timber framing to steel welding, while also writing and performing original plays with hand-crafted puppets, costumes, and sets.
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About the Artist,
Jon shmulevitch
Jon is an architectural practitioner specialising in experimental approaches to participation. His work explores how young people can be actively involved in processes of research, design, and construction. He works at the edges of habitats, developing infrastructures that bring us close to nature.
“Shadow theatre has a long history, often performed in intimate, glowing settings with intricate puppetry. Utilising Beam Camp’s dramatic landscape and its unusually large team, this project expands the art form to a new scale - culminating in a dramatic performance of light and shadow on what is likely the world’s largest shadow theatre stage.”
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