'The ungraspable phantom of life': why puppetry is perfect for plumbing the deep mysteries of Moby-Dick
Yngvild Aspeli, whose staging of the Melville novel forms the centrepiece of this year's MimeLondon festival, explains the eerie magic of her craft It is unnerving to be taken backstage after a show only to find yourself stepping over the inert, dismembered bodies of characters you've just seen in action. But this is Plexus Polaire, a French-Norwegian company that specialises in puppet theatre, and these players are …