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Ladies & Gentlemen,

Boys & Girls!"

Robert gained his first experience at the age of sixteen entertaining the crowds at Thorpe Park in Essex, and on the street outside Pollock's Toy Museum in London. Since then he has been invited to children's birthday parties, school fetes, adult parties & wedding anniversaries, trade shows, county fairs and corporate events. He has participated in Christmas promotions at Harrod's, Liberty and Selfridges department stores, and has performed in restaurants, gardens, parks, shopping malls and outside the Houses of Parliament on the Six O'Clock News.

In 1991, he and Mr. Punch were invited to represent Great Britain at a cultural festival marking the end of Luxembourg's presidency of the E.C. Further invites abroad followed: to the 8th International Puppet Festival Titirimundi in Salamanca and Segovia, Spain; Guignols Europeens in Marseille, France; International Kaspertheaterfestival in Frankfurt, Germany; Internationale Pupperntheatertage in Mistelbach, Austria and to the Prater in Vienna. In 2007, Robert travelled to Japan to give performances in the cities of Nagoya, Osaka & Kyoto.

On television Robert has provided puppetry sequences for Peter Ackroyd's London, Eastenders, Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Vanity Fair, Crocodile Snap, Panorama and Seriously Funny - a C4 documentary on the history of comedy. The film director Derek Jarman asked Robert and Mr. Punch to participate in one of his later films - The Garden and Tom Hanks directed the pair in an episode of Band of Brothers.

Robert is also a professional actor. Credits