From its inception, the Centre has always been in involved in creative in-house productions and experimental theatre collaborations. using masks and puppets:
1981 Women of Gorbals (Mrs McGarvey's Memoirs) with Gorbals Diehards Theatre Group, Glasgow
1981 Birth of A Dragon Easterhouse Jagged Edge Theatre Group, Glasgow
1982 Cities with Department of Drama, University of Glasgow
1982 What Every Woman Wants with Possil Womens Theatre Group
1983 Mistero Buffo (Medieval Comic Mystery) Edinburgh Festival Fringe
1984 Scalliwag. Tour of Shetland Isles with Scottish Youth Theatre
1985 Black Mask:White Puppets, Peoples Palace, Glasgow Development Forum
1985 Dona Juanita The Flea, Nuremberg, Germany with GCC Twinning Department
1986 The Billy Club Puppets. Tour of Strathclyde Secondary Schools
1987 Lifting The Weight with Geese Theatre Company, Vermont, USA
1988 Alice in Wonderland. Tour of Strathclyde Primary Schools
This production was created and performed at the Rostov-On-Don State Puppet Theatre in 1991 as part of a Twin-City exchange between Rostov and Glasgow. The gallery below shows the pre-production design drawings and photos of puppet creation and rehearsal. The production was performed in Russian to an adult audience in a children's theatre that was sixty years old.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, RUSSIA
by gabriel garcia marquez
adapted by Michael A. Gonzalez
Directed & Designed by Malcolm Y. Knight
1991 Reynard The Fox with Ian Turbitt Puppet Company, Glasgow
1992 Out of The Mouth of Brahma with British Council, Edinburgh
1998 Scots Dell'Arte local tour with Department of Drama, University of Glasgow
1998 The Ghost of Eilean Donan with students of HND Puppet Theatre Arts, Anniesland College
1999 Beauty and The Beast with students of HND Puppet Theatre Arts, Anniesland College
This production was performed at the Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre by Malcolm Y. Kight as a solo show in 1999.
Don Quixote: Tilting At Windmills, SCOTLAND
Adapted & Designed by Malcolm Y. Knight
This production was performed and filmed at the Zoumboulakis Galleries, Piraeus, Athens in February 1999 and curated by Katerina Koshina. The gallery below shows the shadow puppets and photos of behind the scenes filming. The production was performed by Greek, American and Scottish actors; including Malcolm Y. Knight and Cora Bissett of SMPC.
The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist, gREECE
Written, Directed & Designed by Apostolos C. Doxiadis
2000 Adventures of A Puppet Showman at SMPC
2000 Scots Dell'Arte Revisited. Kaleidoscope Festival, Aberdeen
2004 Facing The Mask: The Masks of Menander with Karpus Projects Ltd and Venezia InScena
2005 The Tale of Sibi. Fragrant Festival, The Hidden Gardens at The Tramway, Glasgow
2007 Wayang Kulit with Gamelan Naga Mas at Glasgow Concert Hall. Children's Classic Concerts
2008 Peter Pan with Santa Barbara Theatre Company, Lobero Theatre, California USA
2010 Mr Punch Comes To The Comedy Festival with Talking Heads, SMPC Glasgow
This production was performed The gallery below shows the shadow puppets and photos of behind the scenes filming. The production was performed by Greek, American and Scottish actors; including Malcolm Y. Knight and Cora Bissett of SMPC.
2010 La Verdadera Historia de Edipo with Producciones Margarita Inarte SL, Madrid, Spain
le verdadera Historia de edipo, spain
Directed & Designed by ADRIANO IURISSEVICH
2011 Mr Punch at The Enchanted Castle, Stirling
2012 Puppetry Adviser to The Little Shop of Horrors, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
2013 Marionette Cabaret at SMPC, Glasgow
2014 The Oral Health Puppet Show with NHS Glasgow Department of Oral Health
2014 Castlemilk Commedia with Castlemilk Youth Theatre, Glasgow
2015 Taking It To The Streets: Commedia with Castlemilk Youth Theatre, Glasgow
2015 An Evening with Kathakali at SMPC with Kathakali, Southampton/Kerala, India
2016 Puppetry Advisor to Carousel at Pitlochry Festival Theatre
2016 Punch: That's The Way To Do It at Beverley Puppet Festival, Yorkshire
2016 Masks with Peter Meineck with University of Edinburgh at National Museum of Scotland
2017 Mask adviser to Medea (Liz Lochead adapt) Websters Theatre with North Lanarkshire College
2017 Mask consultant Venice Theatre School Giudecca with Catholic University of Milan
2018 Puppet Parade with The Toy Box (Debussy) at Byre Theatre,St Andrews, Virginia Woolf Music Society
2018 The Fox & The Stork with Qualifa Movinstage Theatre, Palestine at SMPC