Caz Frost
Caz Frost – formerly of Major Mustard’s Travelling Show – and subsequently with her own company Art of The Puppet Alive was a founder member of the College and noted during her career as a Professor for the way in which she gave Judy a voice often denied her in a show that was still completely fresh and authentic within the Punch tradition.
Although no longer performing, she contributed a paper to the College’s Millennium Slapstick Symposium from which her introduction is quoted here:
As a tradition the Punch and Judy show has always kept the elements that work for it's audience, whilst also moving on with the times. I created my Punch show in the seventies. I was a psychedelic drama student, much excited by the anarchy of it all. I saw how puppets could say and do the things we'd like to but can't. And as well as adapting over the years to the gradually changing nature of the audiences I meet, I've watched my particular version of Punch and Judy adapt to my own changing views and perceptions.”