Puppet Palace 2010

Dates: Friday 19 February – Sunday 14 March

Puppet Palace is now seeking "Expressions of Interest" from puppet companies/productions who wish to present shows at next year’s Puppet Palace as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival held in 'The Garden of Unearthly Delights' precinct.

Puppet Palace is Australia’s largest annual puppetry project. We coordinate & present a diversity of puppet shows in a dedicated puppetry venue for a total of four weeks. Each show runs for a season anything from one week to four weeks in duration. Each show is registered as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, one of Australia’s largest arts festivals. (We also arrange some extra shows in local schools and community festivals where possible and appropriate)

The aim of Puppet Palace is to promote puppetry in South Australia and nationally, develop audiences for puppetry and support puppet companies through the creation of performance opportunities.

Puppet Palace began humbly in 2007 and has grown each year since to now attract paying audiences in excess of 8,000 coming to see puppetry shows in the Adelaide 2009 Fringe Festival.

Puppet Palace shows also attract visits from visiting international programmers through the Fringe and Adelaide Festival of Arts and is therefore a great place to showcase yourself.

Additionally the Adelaide Fringe has a Puppetry Award. In 2009 fifteen puppet companies took part in the Adelaide Fringe.

Click here for an outline of this year's shows

Photo of the exterior of the venue.
And the interior.

We seek expressions of interest by: 31st August 2009.

If you would like to participate in 2010 please forward us information about your show with the following :

Show title &
Running Time of show
Technical requirements
Number of performers
Basic bio & C.V. of company
Short description including audience suitability (ie age range)
Any photographs (if possible)
Dates you are available between Feb 19 and March 14)

Information about Puppet Palace and how we program and run the project will be be sent to you once you have been in contact with us.

Programming and selection of acts who have applied will be made by mid-September.

Best wishes
Keith Preston & Lachlan Haig.
Puppet Palace Project company

web page created July 1, 2009