Encounter the femme fatale and the hard-nosed detective in a new adult puppet show!

Recently reviewed as “part puppet show, part art installation “,  ‘One Way Street’ is a live theatre performance inhabited by puppets and animated film projections. The show is in glorious black and white and contains all the moral ambiguity embodied in the film noir genre.

a Small World Theatre production
translation and narration by Carol Byrne Jones

Tales from the Taiga is a multi-media performance for children over 3 years of age, featuring full-size puppets, shadow puppets, music, story and actors.  It is based on a traditional Nanai story and takes place on the border of China and Siberia alongside the Amur River – the tenth longest river in the world.

Small World Theatre has worked closely with Welsh playwright Carol Byrne-Jones to translate & adapt the story so that it can be performed completely in Welsh or English languages and is often followed by a Q&A session with the audience and accompanied by shadow puppet making workshops.  The show raises lots of interest as it deals with environmental and cultural issues as well as being a magical story with a happy ending!

Tales from the Taiga at the Urdd National Eisteddfod. It is with great pleasure that Small World Theatre will be performing Tales from the Taiga at 1pm and 3.30pm and hosting a costume making workshop in the Cwtsh Cymraeg on the Eisteddfod maes on Monday 27 May. Join us for a parade through the maes at 4.30pm and follow the giant sturgeon! urdd.org

Read Polly March's article about the festival and our puppet show on BBC blog page

Forties, Cromarty, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight!

It’s all aboard with Captain Fillet and his crew sailing the high seas in search of a massive catch.  Out at sea, the crew, finding their nets empty and the ocean a millpond, set to telling salty tales of mermaids, sea creatures, sirenia and sunken villages. They reminisce about a time when the seas were bountiful and coastal communities thrived by the sea.

'The Healing of Brân the Blessed' is a seminal tale of leadership, betrayal and hope. This spectacular giant is 6.7m tall and this production by Small World Theatre is as emotional as it is epic, and a fabulous showstopper at any event.

This is a site specific performance and a unique collaboration between Small World Theatre and the host destination. It requires forward planning in order to engage the community, adapt and utilise the individuality of the place, and finally present a most stunning outcome. For this reason we welcome working with local organisations and actively engaging with other artists and communities.

'Bogus' is an interactive play that uses actors and masked performers to take a humorous look at bogus callers.  The audience is sensitively invited to join the actors on stage to rehearse different ways to outwit the hustlers with hilarious results.