R405 is a puppet theatre ensemble founded in 2022 at KALD DAMU. Its work focuses on visual–sound, or audiovisual, puppet and object theatre without words. The company’s productions explore contrasts between human scale and the natural world, shifting attention toward the environment and its narrative potential. Sound plays a central role: the ensemble treats the entire scenography as a musical instrument, seeking ways to convey ecological themes through fairy tales and puppet theatre. In communicating their stories, they embrace ambiguity and an open interpretive space, inviting the audience’s imagination and creating an immersive, atmospheric world. Their approach to animation and image composition at times evokes the language of animated film.
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