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Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (SPPT) is Australia's champions of puppetry.
Our name reflects our ethos - to be inspired by many artists, artistic forms and ideas and fuse them with puppetry to create theatrically exciting performances. We play with abstracted space, figures and objects
in an endless exploration of the inexhaustible possibilities of this art form.

Located in Fremantle, the company maintains a theatre, rehearsal space, workshop, offices and an interactive puppet museum.

SPPT was founded in 1981 by Artistic Director Peter L Wilson, writer Cathryn Robinson and designer Beverley Campbell-Jackson, as part of an artist-in-residency program initiated by the WA Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology).

After over 30 years of operation, the Company has developed a national and international reputation having performed in China, USA, Korea, Singapore, Japan and the Czech Republic. In April 2008 SPPT hosted the 20th UNIMA World Puppetry Festival and Congress - the Olympics of puppetry!

Within Australia, SPPT entertains over 50 000 people annually. The Company presents five to six new Australian works and repertoire shows in its Fremantle theatre every year, as well as festival events, corporate entertainment and workshops.

SPPT also maintains a rigorous regional and interstate touring schedule, taking the magic of puppetry to children and families in remote areas of Western Australia and the eastern states.

We are inspired by our audience of young people and families to create meaningful and exciting theatre that respects their intelligence and emotional growth. Puppetry uniquely addresses the imaginative mind
and so, while our focus is on young people, we create work that speaks directly to the child in us all.

2011 Programme

School of Puppetry

Adopt-a-Puppet