Past projects
Our projects cover a wide range of social and environmental issues using a range of art forms and skills. Here is a selection..
Puppets Count
Small World Theatre artists taught puppet making and performance skills to vulnerable young adults. The project was a creative look at numeracy. It included 6 sessions, a performance and a film shared with family and friends. We're delighted to share a link to the film here.
2024
Funded by the Communities Count Scheme.
Feeding Grief to Animals
Written and directed by Rebecca Parfitt. Art department and shadow puppetry by Small World Theatre.
The film is a live-action animation told through the medium of shadow puppetry. The story explores a woman’s grief and internal conflict with her body as she loses the baby (narrated by Heledd Gwynn). Desperate to fill the void, she goes to her garden to try to seek solace in nature by feeding the animals that visit. To watch the 4-min film, please visit Feeding Grief to Animals.
2021
BBC Four Ffolio
Noddfa
We used participatory drama methods to work with a group of asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Mali, Congo, Eritrea, Vietnam and other countries. Through shadow puppetry, we offered a means to tell participants’ traumatic stories. Winding Snake took their puppets and stories and made them into this beautiful animation.
This projects addressed the negative stereotyping of immigrants and refugees in the media. NODDFA was screened by WOW Film Festival and in Chicago at DocYourWorld 2017.
2017
Created in partnership with Winding Snake Productions and Oasis Cardiff.
Plastigwaelod
Created as part of an exhibition exploring Welsh legends and mythology. Our enormous puppet of Bendigeidfran was in the main gallery space.
During a 2-day workshop process, Small World Theatre worked with 14 participants to update the old legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod..
2017-18
Commissioned by Aberystwyth Arts Centre for their exhibition Hanes: tales, stories, legends & myths.