Puppetry
Who doesn’t love puppets? Sooty and Sweep, Punch and Judy… Even the Thunderbirds! Check out our reviews of productions which include our animated friends in this section.
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Review: Don Quixote (is a Very Big Book), Pleasance Dome
Sublime puppetry graces a performance that’s missing a few strings.
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Review: Tao of Glass, @sohoplace
A joyful experience: enter understanding the world one way and exit with a sense of how it can be different.
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Review: A Fable, Riverside Studios
A charming, beautiful, and at times savage show that brings breathtaking puppetry and traditional storytelling together in perfect harmony.
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Review: Venus & Adonis, Barbican Centre
An exceptional, arousing version of Shakespeare’s steamy erotic poem.
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Review: Return to the Forest, Sadler’s Wells
A haunting exploration of heritage, ownership and cultural memory.
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Review: Heimer, Lyric Hammersmith
Heimer uses imaginative sea-themed visuals and heartfelt storytelling through puppets to explore the challenges of loss, connection, Alzheimer’s, family care, and memory with warmth and emotional depth.
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Review: Magic Bistro, Well Walk Theatre
The design aesthetic is a thing of beauty: from the repurposed spaces to the tiniest stage prop.
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Review: The Daily Scream (Le Cri Quotidien), Well Walk Theatre
Uniquely enchanting, this playful paper puppetry brings pages of news joyfully and imaginatively to life!
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Review: Tiny Planet, Albany Deptford
An exquisite, active puppetry adventure to save a planet – and save ourselves.
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Review: Meet Fred, York Theatre Royal
From the moment that Fred’s three puppeteers (Nick Halliwell, Llŷr Williams, and Jennie Rawling) take him out of his box and breathe life into his little cloth body, he is immediately embodied and alive in a fabulously seamless (ha ha!)…