Listings: Puppet shows

Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon. Seas have risen, billions have died. Alvin Sputnik is our only hope. He must venture to the bottom of the ocean to find his wife's lost soul and save humanity. Direct from sell-out seasons in New York, Sydney and Auckland, this multi award-winning piece of heart-warming…

Watch it, hear it, read it, stream it. Do it all at once. We’re all plugged in and wired up to the news and its ticker-tape is ticking all day and all night. But is all this news good for us? Hailing from Reykjavik, Iceland, VaVaVoom takes its audience into an inventive and original world of puppets, pop-up sets, live…

In a muddy festival field, a chorus performs the tragic plays of ancient Greece. But can the actors overcome their own personal tragedies? New writing with puppetry and singing. Machinist Theatre returns for its second year at the Fringe.**** (EdFringeReview.com, The Canterville Ghost, 2012).

Compagnie Philippe Genty. The great puppet master, Philippe Genty, invites us to join Ulysses and his shipmates for an incredible journey. Our hero is a corkscrew and sails on his indestructible vessel, which is nothing, but a … dustpan! This imagination without boundaries joyfully carries away kids and grown-ups in…

A suitcase-trailing family rolls into new beginnings. Foreign, distorted and bright, the world resembles a haven of comfort. A miniature Utopia. But as the walls and lives are peeled back the community’s murky environment is revealed. Feral is an innovative piece of visual, mixed-media theatre which combines puppetry…

The Wrong Crowd. 'I only eat the ones who deserve to be eaten'. Lisa is given something by her dying mother. Something she doesn't want. Little does she know that learning to accept it might be the only thing that will save her own life. The Wrong Crowd reimagine Slavic folklore's extraordinary, child-eating hag-witch…

A new show from Ipdip Theatre all about the world of the sky and the floating sheep that live there. Ages 0–3.

Assembly and Marshall Cordell. A night of major laughs, not for minors. The adults only wing of The Jim Henson Company, return to the Edinburgh with their live, uncensored show that lets loose the perilous and provocative elements of comedic improvisation on stage with a bunch of puppets. Ages 16+.

Sparkle and Dark. Could you kill someone Billy? I mean really, could you? What if they asked you to? Billy, a conscientious, opinionated teenager, meets Roger, a chain smoking, sharp tongued old man. An unlikely friendship forms and Billy must decide what it means to truly care about someone. Levels of reality distort…

Keep your head down and hope he picks on someone else. Winner of the RSC/Marlowe ‘Other’ Prize, Kind has been developed with the Royal Shakespeare Company Literary Department. New writing, physical theatre and puppetry combine to tell the story of Skildir, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship on a remote…

Lauder! is a performance about growing up, about losing the one you love and about learning to live with the memory of what no longer exists. It is about the worlds that vanished. It was inspired by prose of Jonathan Safran Foer and by motifs of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Tempest. It tells the story of the boy who…

Melodic Dystrophy is a puppet play that explores what happens to a person when their primary means of expression - the body - begins to fall apart, questioning the dissonances between body and soul when one is confronted with love and loss. Modernising Japanese Bunraku-style puppetry, the play tells the story of an…

Box Tale Soup. A remarkably faithful adaptation of this Austen classic, Northanger Abbey will transport you into a world of beautiful paper puppets and gothic romance. 'I was completely mesmerised by this enchanting production' (Joanna Lumley). Proving that puppetry is certainly not just for children, this unique…

Box Tale Soup. A remarkably faithful adaptation of this Austen classic, Northanger Abbey will transport you into a world of beautiful paper puppets and gothic romance. 'I was completely mesmerised by this enchanting production' (Joanna Lumley). Proving that puppetry is certainly not just for children, this unique…

Paper Crane Puppet Company. When two disenchanted ex-muses take over the lives of a group of office workers and manipulate them into replaying an ancient epic, they get much more than they bargained for. As the struggle between ancient legend and modern mundanity plays out, things aren't quite as they seem…With…

Pants on Fire. Award-winning actor / musician company Pants on Fire follow their international five-star hit Ovid's Metamorphoses, with a unique take on Carlo Collodi's original tale about a wooden fibber. Setting the adventures in a 1950's sci-fi horror B-movie, with a barbershop dubstep mash-up soundtrack, man-size…

Raging storms and supernatural forces prevail over one man’s almighty quest to get home. Immerse yourself in a journey through the high seas, soak up the adventure and encounter danger and exhilaration. Homer’s cornerstone of literature is vividly told with beautiful illustration and masterful puppetry. Cinematic…

CKP in association with Cole Kitchenn. With 3 million plus YouTube hits, Paul Zerdin has taken ventriloquism to new heights. It won't be long before his unsuspecting audience notice that it's not just the puppets he's controlling! ★★★★★ (Scotsman). 'Brilliant' (Evening Standard). www.paulzerdin.com. Ages 14+.

Maison Foo. Welcome to Pendulums…the high street store that offers you more than you bargained for. Brought to you by creators of Edinburgh 2010 sell-out smash hit Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin, imagination ticklers Maison Foo entice you to join them on a darkly comic and shameless shopping experience like no other.

OLTA. In a decrepit and bankrupt city, God's body was found dead in a Sainsbury's car park. Since then, the annual Holy PG Tips competition has been held allowing citizens to audition to become the new God. Pigmalion is training his daughter to seduce God, believing He will come back from the dead and marry her. The…

Tin Box Theatre Company. Maggie, a perpetual wanderer, is travelling the UK one pub at a time collecting stories. Join her for a drink and a chance to hear the story that shaped her journey. Pint Dreams is a unique and immersive experience created by Tin Box, a company whose combination of a beautiful aesthetic and…

UT Productions Ltd. The Abbott & Costello of the sock world' (Time Out), stars of stage, screen and YouTube bring you a new show of sci-fi themed songs, sketches, socks and violence. After five sell-out years at Edinburgh and tours from Aberdeen to Adelaide (Pick of the Fringe 2012), Aberystwyth to Aarhus (it's in…