Pulling the right string
Frankie airbrushes in Dubai
Frankie treats his puppets like children
Featured many times on TCS ... standards of Muppet Shows
Puppet Festival 2001
Christmas Light Up Ceremony


Pulling The Right Strings
- The Straits Times, April 12, 2005

Quoted: “Puppeteers here breathe new life into the centuries-old traditional folk art ..."

To date, there are at least five schools here that have introduced puppetry as a co-curricular activity ...

"Students learn a lot from it because puppetry encompasses the skills of drama, speech and science."

Among other performances, his (Frankie's) puppets have performed to the poetry of Singaporean writer Felix Cheong in the poetry reading One Night Standing at last year's Singapore Arts Festival. They have also been featured in Singaporean film-maker Merwyn Tzang's indie file A Wicked Tale ...




Air-brush artist from Singapore in Colour Surprises
week at Deira City Centre, Dubai
- Gulf News, August 25, 2004



Weekend East dated 3 December 1999

Quoted: “The Creative Director of Visual Impact Gifts and Creative Services, an entertainment company, then decided to try his hand at puppetry, he hasn’t looked back since and now performs to captive audiences here as well as Russia, Israel, Argentina and the United States. Frankie and his puppeteers have been performing at White Sands shopping mall in Pasir Ris with his entourage of 120 hand-made puppets. Frankie said his puppets appeal to people as they were very colourful, unusual and seem very lifelike. He said, “Adults will move to the music with the puppets and children find them so loveable especially the animal puppets. This makes them effective in conveying moral and traditional values, which I try to do in the shows”.



Magazine - Pinetree Club dated December 1999

Quoted: “Featured many times on TCS and often compared to international standards of Muppet Shows, Puppet Paradise is choreographed by famous puppeteer, Frankie Yeo, who’ll be presenting the widest array of puppets ever used in Singapore. With as many as 40 puppets used in one show, it’s like watching Sesame Street ‘live’ ! ….”



Puppet Festival 2001

Quoted: “Touted as a first in Singapore, PuppetFest 2001 will showcase performances by 10 puppeteers from eight countries, with some hailing from as far as Macedonia and the Czech Republic … “ .. You have got to hand it to them as The Puppet People, a home grown group, put their adorable handpuppets up to mischief …” - The Straits Times dated 26 May 2001

 



Christmas Light Up Ceremony 1998

Quoted: “The colourful puppet performance was indeed, an innovative way of spreading the values of harmonious living and that we are basically the same despite our differences” - President of National Council of Social Service.