Manipulate is primarily a festival of puppetry, but it embraces all forms of metamorphosis, including film, animation, live theatre and even dance

If you often go to Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, you’ll frequently find it transformed. In August, it’s an unofficial club bar for the Fringe; sometimes, it’s a hub of new music for Noisy Nights; at other times, it’s a honeypot for dance fans, or lovers of children’s theatre. It’ll change again from Monday when the annual Manipulate visual theatre festival takes residence, attracting a different kind of audience again.

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