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Suitable for all the family (recommended for ages 3-10).

Currently touring: The Adventures of The Little Red Hen, Pinocchio, The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin and The Gingerbread Man.

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About 7 months ago

Only a week until our Little Red Hen 🐔starts making bread 🍞 in London! We are at @polkatheatre for Half Term. Join us! Tickets here 👇👇👇👇 polkatheatre.com/event/the-li… youtube.com/watch?v=jDDWwR… #theatre #halfterm #childrenstheatre #wimbledon #familytheatre #puppetry

About 7 months ago

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About 7 months ago

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About 7 months ago

📢Attention all artists📢 Join our AD Niki McCretton for fantastic 3 day course exploring co-creation @LighthousePoole 📅 6th - 8th July More info/book tickets: - bit.ly/435xpx3 #arts #training #cocreation #playfulness Please share!

About 7 months ago

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New Van – Crowdfunder launch
As a theatre company we are proud to co-create high quality shows for children and their families and tour them to theatres across the UK…

3 weeks to go! Our newly staged adaptation of Th

3 weeks to go!

Our newly staged adaptation of The Adventures of the Little Red Hen opens on Friday 26th May at Polka Theatre

Book your tickets here - https://polkatheatre.com/event/the-little-red-hen/

229 penguin puppets made, 9 arctic environments to

229 penguin puppets made, 9 arctic environments to play in, and hundreds of happy children = a brilliant week of workshops in Manchester last week, ahead of this year's festive run @watersidearts_
😍 🐧👌
Thanks to S&N's @perkispuppet for delivering the workshops and inspiring the children

In a month's time we'll be in Nottingham, at @lake

In a month's time we'll be in Nottingham, at @lakesidearts, with our best-selling sweet treat of a family show.

★★★★★ “Great show, very clever and funny performance! All the children were blown away!” Audience member

Stuff and Nonsense present a brilliant mix of puppetry, live action, great music, humour and a stunning staging in this exciting and pacey retelling of a well-loved classic tale.

🎭 The Gingerbread Man

👨‍👧‍👦 For ages 3+ and all the family

📆 Thurs 2 - Sun 5 June, 11am & 2.30pm

📸 Mark Morreau

#nottinghamtheatre #nottinghamfamily #lakesidearts #familytheatre #gingerbreadman #familytreat #nottingham

Looking ahead to summer half term? The Gingerbrea

Looking ahead to summer half term?
The Gingerbread Man will be at @cornexchange and @lakesidearts, see you there!

📸 Mark Morreau

Have an egg-sellent weekend folks 😉😜

Have an egg-sellent weekend folks 😉😜

📣 📣 Today we're announcing our first Trainin

📣 📣 Today we're announcing our first Training Course for Theatre Makers, led by our Artistic Director Niki McCretton. 📣 📣

In partnership with @cambridgejunction it focuses on co-creation and will run over three days in July (with follow up sessions online).

If you're a theatre maker exploring how you incorporate co-creation in your unique artistic practice, take a look at the course info on our website: news stories.

Thanks!

📸 Mark Morreau, showing Niki McCretton in rehearsals

Happy #WorldPuppetryDay Today we celebrate our br

Happy #WorldPuppetryDay

Today we celebrate our brilliant puppet maker Holly Miller, @perkispuppet. Holly made these much-loved puppets, that appear in our current touring shows: Pinocchio, The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin & The Gingerbread Man.

📸Mark Morreau

#familytheatre #gingerbreadman #pinocchio #penguin #puppet #bridportarts #bridportlife #bridportpeople

Great news for penguin-lovers this week 🐧 We'v

Great news for penguin-lovers this week 🐧

We've secured a highly sought after Christmas run for The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin at one of our best-loved venues 🙌 🎄

We'll let you know where as soon as we're allowed to! 🤫

#familytheatre #christmas2022 #penguinlove

Looking forward to being back at the beautiful @tb

Looking forward to being back at the beautiful @tbtlake in Keswick next week.

Families looking for a half term treat, please come along. Here's what a recent audience member told us about the show:

"Absolutely wonderful performance...such an interesting & clever take on the story. Well done, this is art and what the theatre should be!" 😊

Pinocchio: for ages 3+ and all the family

📢LOCAL PERFORMANCE ALERT!📢 Our latest show,

📢LOCAL PERFORMANCE ALERT!📢

Our latest show, Pinocchio at @octagonyeovil
This Sunday, 6 Feb, 1pm & 4pm

"Brilliantly clever version of this classic tale. We laughed like we haven’t done in ages and we were moved by its beauty."
Audience member

For ages 3+ and all the family... plus all our local grown-up fans😉

📸Mark Morreau

#familytheatre #pinocchio #bridport #bridportlife #yeovil #somersetfamily #dorsetfamily

On the final day of our 8-week festive run @theatr

On the final day of our 8-week festive run @theatreroyalplymouth we want to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who came to see us, and to those who made the run possible, including everyone who works with Stuff & Nonsense and the theatre 👏👏👏

And of course a very special thank you to our wonderful two actors on this show: Loretta Hope and Jonny Hoskins 🏅

It was incredible that we made it happen this year. And whilst it wasn't quite 'back to normal' we took a massive step towards it, for which we are truly grateful.

We'd be lying if we said we're not already looking forward to next year 🤥 😉

📸 Mark Morreau

#familytheatre #theatreroyalplymouth #penguins #familychristmas

This February we're touring The Gingerbread Man &

This February we're touring The Gingerbread Man & Pinocchio.

Our much-loved family theatre shows will be at venues (almost) the length of England, from Cumbria to Somerset!

Take a look if you're near @octagonyeovil @tbtlake @z.artsmcr @polkatheatre @theatreroyalbse

For ages 3+

#familytheatre #familyfun #familytogethertime #gingerbreadman #pinocchio

Today the team headed to Plymouth 🚗 for final r

Today the team headed to Plymouth 🚗 for final rehearsals ahead of the opening of our festive season next week @theatreroyalplymouth.

Have you booked your tickets yet? Waddle on down and join the expedition! For ages 3+ and all the family.

The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin
1 Dec - 22 Jan

#christmasshow #familychristmas #plymouth #penguinsofinstagram

We're delighted to announce that we have received

We're delighted to announce that we have received funding from the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund so that we can continue to be here for you and #HereForCulture😊

Thank you to @aceagrams, @dcmsgovuk and everyone out there continuing to support the arts through difficult times 🙏

Two weeks until we're back in Plymouth for our fes

Two weeks until we're back in Plymouth for our festive run @theatreroyalplymouth. Here's a little taster of what to expect from this year's show...

⏰ In just three weeks time we'll be back @theatr

⏰ In just three weeks time we'll be back @theatreroyalplymouth for our 8-week festive run🎄🐧

As ever, the popular performances are starting to sell-out, so please get booking folks!

We're so looking forward to seeing you all again🥰

Hot off the press!... A sneaky peak of Pinocchio v

Hot off the press!... A sneaky peak of Pinocchio via some production shots taken @lighthousepoole by the brilliant Mark Morreau. More to follow soon...

Catch the show this half term at @castdoncaster and @newwolsey, Ipswich.

Great catch up today with our buddies @theatreroya

Great catch up today with our buddies @theatreroyalplymouth about this year's festive run.

The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin, 1 Dec - 22 Jan

We LOVE our new artwork for this show, and can't wait to see it going up around Plymouth next week. Please send us a pic if you see it!

#familytheatre #plymouth #christmasshow #christmasinplymouth #penguinstuff

Back @lighthousepoole today for our final day of r

Back @lighthousepoole today for our final day of rehearsals before the Pinocchio premiere.

Yesterday we had technical rehearsals and a sharing for 250 local year 4 & 5 school children. The R&D for this show involved children in Poole, so it was very fitting that they were the first people we've shown the work to. And, of course, they had some brilliant feedback for us...

Tim and Jenny rehearsing with some of the props an

Tim and Jenny rehearsing with some of the props and puppets from Pinocchio. 🤥

Premiere is this Saturday, 2 Oct, @lighthousepoole 🥳

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