Melbourne Festival of Puppetry 2021

UPDATE:Due to the ever-evolving Covid-19 pandemic Puppets and Masks of Italy will no longer run at this year’s Melbourne Festival of Puppetry. Please contact La Mama to organise your refund, or consider donating the price of the ticket to the artists. If you would like to move your tickets to another show within the festival please get in touch via info@lamama.com.au or … Continued

Melbourne Festival of Puppetry 2021

6 Jul – 11 Jul

UPDATE:
Due to the ever-evolving Covid-19 pandemic Puppets and Masks of Italy will no longer run at this year’s Melbourne Festival of Puppetry. Please contact La Mama to organise your refund, or consider donating the price of the ticket to the artists. If you would like to move your tickets to another show within the festival please get in touch via info@lamama.com.au or (03) 9347 6948. You can see the rest of the program below.

Welcome to the 2021 Melbourne Festival of Puppetry. This year’s festival was originally scheduled for 2019 but first, the fire at La Mama delayed us and then the world as a whole fell apart and so, here we stand in 2021 offering you a festival filled with joy and love and, of course, puppetry. It seems a miracle that this is possible and while we are sad our international guest artists could not join us, we are delighted to welcome artists from across Australia to present their work. It’s been such a rough time in the performing arts over the past 12 months. It’s also been a rough time for the young people of Melbourne so it gives us immense pleasure to focus this year’s festival on presenting quality puppetry works for young audiences. But, our adult friends are not forgotten. This year, we are presenting a day and night adult program with our friends A Blanck Canvas Studio at Seaworks in Williamstown.  We hope these art offerings lighten your load, bring a smile to your face and warm your winter chills.  

The Melbourne Festival of Puppetry is presented by La Mama Theatre and Lemony S Puppet Theatre in partnership with Co.As.It. We are supported by Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne and proudly sponsored by Creature Technology Company.

Shows – Tuesday to Friday

Time	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri
10 am	The Last Lighthouse Keeper (3 – 8 years old)	The Last Lighthouse Keeper (3 – 8 years old)	The Last Lighthouse Keeper (3 – 8 years old)	Once Upon a Time Cafe (4 years and up)
1pm	The Land Where One Never Dies (5 -10 years old)	The Land Where One Never Dies (5 -10 years old)	The Land Where One Never Dies (5 -10 years old)	Pearly Whites (all ages)
2pm	Hammer and Thumb (5 years and up)	Hammer and Thumb (5 years and up)	Hammer and Thumb (5 years and up)	Puppets and Masks of Italy (all ages)
2:30pm Free Roving	Free Roving: Bonkel (all ages)	Free Roving: Bonkel (all ages)	Free Roving: Bonkel (all ages)	Free Roving: Curious Legends (all ages)
3pm			The Fish That Wanted to Fly (3 – 10 years)	The Fish That Wanted to Fly (3 – 10 years)
5.30pm		Free street performance: I Once Was A Tree & Solastalgia (all ages)	Free street performance: I Once Was A Tree & Solastalgia (all ages)	Free street performance: I Once Was A Tree & Solastalgia (all ages)
6 pm		Picasso and his Dog (Family audiences)	Picasso and his Dog (Family audiences)	Picasso and his Dog (Family audiences)

Shows – Saturday & Sunday

Time	Sat	Sun
10am	Once Upon a Time Cafe (4 years and up)	Once Upon a Time Cafe (4 years and up)
11am		Picasso and his Dog (Family audiences)
1pm	Pearly Whites (all ages)	Pearly Whites (all ages)
2pm	Puppets and Masks of Italy (all ages)	Puppets and Masks of Italy (all ages)
2.30pm	Free Roving: Curious Legends (all ages)	Free Roving: Curious Legends (all ages)
3pm	Spike the Echidna (3 – 10 years)	Spike the Echidna (3 – 10 years)
4pm		Free street performance: I Once Was A Tree & Solastalgia (all ages)
5.30pm	Free street performance: I Once Was A Tree & Solastalgia (all ages)
6pm	Picasso and his Dog (family audiences)