Theatres · South Wales
Puppet Theatre
Puppet Theatre is a theatre in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Gowerton · 8.6 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Puppet Theatre is a working theatre in the United Kingdom, listed in OpenStreetMap as a public performance venue. Coordinates: 51.5838°, -4.1038°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Puppet Theatre Barge is a unique, fifty-seat marionette theatre on a converted barge in London. The theatre presents puppet shows for children and adults and is moored in Little Venice throughout the year and in Richmond-upon-Thames during the summer. The company produces shows taken from traditional children's tales such as the Brer Rabbit stories, Aesop's Fables and original work featuring Punch, as well as drama by writers such as William Shakespeare and Federico García Lorca, and has also commissioned original plays from contemporary published writers, such as Wendy Cope, Howard Barker and Finuala Dowling.
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Background
History
Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers formed Movingstage Marionette Company in 1979. After a couple of years touring marionette shows, Middleton and Rogers bought an old 80-ft Thames lighter of riveted iron construction, built in the 1930s and converted it into a double-bridge string marionette theatre. The Puppet Theatre Barge was opened to the public on 28 January 1982 at Camden Lock in north London. Its first performance was The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.In 1988, the barge moved to the basin at Little Venice, near Paddington. The first two summer tours, in 1982 and 1983, were undertaken up the Grand Union Canal, performing at Pitstone Wharf in Buckinghamshire,…
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- Coordinates
- 51.5838, -4.1038
- District
- Swansea
- Parish
- Ilston
- Postcode
- SA3 2EH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Gower
- Established
- 1982
- Nearest railway station
- Gowerton — 8.6 km
Sources
- osm: n7010161015 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Puppet Theatre Barge (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Puppet Theatre?
- Puppet Theatre is in South Wales, United Kingdom (postcode SA3 2EH), in the parish of Ilston.
- When was Puppet Theatre built?
- Built or established in 1982.
- How do I get to Puppet Theatre?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SA3 2EH. It sits within the Gower parliamentary constituency.