Puppets for Aladdin and Sinbad

A puppet-making house with six rooms for staging old tales of Aladdin and Sinbad. Top left, a story room has name signs, a map, a dragon figure, a toy ship and two men discussing a sketch. Next is a rehearsal room with numbered floor squares, where a man with a pointer coaches a boy who bows. At the right, an office has posters, a seating plan and a clerk in a red fez writing at a tall desk. Below, a carving workshop has a bearded woodcarver shaping heads while two children sweep shavings; a costume room has robes on a stand, a sewing machine and a woman stitching a blue coat; and the theatre has red curtains, a painted courtyard and puppet-like figures of a king and a princess. Red curtains, a red fez and a blue coat bring small flashes of colour that are easy to track across the busy floors.