The Witch And The Egg

The Witch And The Egg plays at the Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November. It's part of the Luminous Tales programme, and the story comes from Madeleine Edmondson's book The Witch's Egg.

It's a simple premise: a lonely old witch finds an egg that sends her on an adventure that changes her life. The show is told through shadow puppetry, with a single performer and a flock of puppets carrying the whole thing. Luminous Tales describes it as a mix of humour and audience engagement, so it's the kind of thing that works best with a room full of people rather than just watching it on a screen.

The venue itself is a bit of a hidden gem in the West End. The Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre combines an 80-seat theatre with a museum and an education unit, and it houses a huge mask and puppet library and archive. There are permanent exhibition areas, a cafe, a film and FX unit, a mask studio, and a marionette carving workshop. They also run a regular Saturday Show programme of workshops and birthday parties for families, and they tour exhibitions to museums and galleries across the UK and Ireland.

If you're going with kids, there are craft activities, colour-in, and cut-out puppet and mask kits available in the cafe around the show for £2.50 each, or three for £6.00 and four for £8.00. Tickets for the show are between £7.50 and £7.95. The first performance is Saturday 31 October from 2pm to 3pm, and the second is Sunday 1 November from 11am to midday, both at 8-10 Balcarres Avenue, Glasgow West End G12 0QF.