

We are supported by Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne and proudly sponsored by Creature Technology Company. The Melbourne Festival of Puppetry is presented by La Mama Theatre and Lemony S Puppet Theatre in partnership with Co.As.It. We hope these art offerings lighten your load, bring a smile to your face and warm your winter chills. This year, we are presenting a day and night adult program with our friends A Blanck Canvas Studio at Seaworks in Williamstown. But, our adult friends are not forgotten. 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. It’s been such a rough time in the performing arts over the past 12 months.

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. 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. Welcome to the 2021 Melbourne Festival of Puppetry. DREAM PUPPETS is a Melbourne based puppet theatre company which has been performing its brilliantly visual and distinctive style of productions to audiences of all ages in Australia and around the world for the past twenty-four years.
