Minny Stynker
A Soap Soup Theatre Company Production
Aimed at ages 3-8
What would you do if you moved to a strange new city? All your friends are far away, your new house smells weird, and it rains all the time?!
Kit takes matters into his own hands, when one night, while drawing to pass the time, the swirls and whirls on his page giggle into a life of their own, and a very unusual adventure unfolds! Join Soap Soup Theatre on their most riotous, colourful adventure of all – where a bedroom becomes a forest, a school turns into a solar system and the drawings in your bag have a life of their own!
A story about the magic of creativity.
Devised by one of Bristol’s leading theatre makers for family audiences, and based on a brand new book by Artistic Director Tomasin Cuthbert. Soap Soup Theatre combines high quality children’s theatre with the magic of projection mapping, bringing the vibrant illustrations from the book to life. An unmissable Theatre experience for the whole family.
Be a part od the show!
Create an imaginary friend just for YOU using the templates on the link below, and see them come to life at the Minny Stynker show!
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Age Guidance
Minny Stynker is aimed at ages 3-8. Our shows for this age group have storylines that can be followed and enjoyed by 3-4-year olds, but may also use slightly more complex ideas, humour, dialogue or song lyrics that older children will get more out of.
There is nothing really scary in these shows but they can be a bit more dramatic than those for the youngest children, including in their use of sound and lighting, and characters may face some perils.
Please note that Minny Stynker is a new production. It is still in development and this page will be updated as we know more about the specifics of the show.
This show has standard theatre seating – rows of benches facing the stage. There will be up to 90 people watching the show.
This isn’t an interactive show, but we always welcome vocal responses from young audiences, and there are expected to be some points in the show where everyone is invited to participate in some way. The audience stay in their seats while watching the show, but you can leave and re-enter the auditorium at any time. After the performance there will be an opportunity for everyone to meet the puppets.
All ages are welcome at our shows and age ranges can only be a rough guide, but please bear in mind that Minny Stynker was not specially designed for under-threes. A show aimed at two-year olds would have some differences – those shows are carefully made to hold their attention for the duration, and not to be unsettling for them.
About the Company
Soap Soup Theatre are proud makers of innovative theatre for children and their families, and are dedicated to creating startling work that invites our audiences to co-create the worlds our stories inhabit. Our work is design led, offering a bold, unique visual language, so expect to see and hear creative, colourful design, beautiful puppets, and inventive object work.
We draw from our collaborators’ own passions and experiences to create work that is personal, intimate and a true shared experience.
This is theatre of the senses, and of the heart.
Credits
Artistic Director/Lead Producer – Tomasin Cuthbert
Co-Producer – Sarah White
Marketing Officer – Harriet Campell-Taylor
Director – Stephanie Kempson
Designer – Tomasin Cuthbert
Associate Director – Gabrielle Sheppard
Dramaturg – Saikat Ahamed
Based on a Picture book by – Tomasin Cuthbert
Puppet Assistant – Ros Cuthbert
Composer – Tom Ball
Projection Design and Animation – Christopher Harrisson
Lighting Designer – Joe Price
Performed by Tomasin Cuthbert and Ricardo Ventura
Multibuy Offer on Children’s Puppet Festival events:
(exclusions apply*)
Get 10% off when you book 2 events
Get 20% off when you book 3 or more events
How it works:
Step 2
If you add a second show or family workshop to your basket 10% discount applies to both events
Step 3
If you add a third show or family workshop to your basket 20% discount applies to all events
* Puppet Placations, other Family Workshops and Adult Workshops are excluded from this offer. Offer applies only to shows or family workshops (Ice Screams! and Ahoy There! Puppet Pirates) taking place between 1st August and 1st September only. Shows and family workshops need to be booked in the same order for the discount to apply, but if you have booked in separate orders and would like to claim the discount, please contact the box office. Please note that if you book more tickets for one show or family workshop than another, the discount only applies to the number of tickets booked on all events (e.g. if you book 3 tickets for two shows and 4 for a third show, 9 tickets are discounted 20% and the extra ticket on the one show is not discounted).
August – September 2024
Little Angel Theatre’s OFFIE award winning Children’s Puppet Festival
Jam-packed with shows and workshops for all the family and adults too!
We are delighted to announce the return of our Children’s Puppet Festival which will take place across both Little Angel venues this summer from 2 August – 1 September 2024. The vibrant programme will showcase a broad range of puppetry by the most exciting UK and international companies currently making theatre for young audiences.
There will also be plenty of opportunities for everyone to take part, with workshops for families, community events, fun days for children and courses for adults to try out the craft of puppetry.
If you cannot find an available event to suit you, you can join our waiting list for sold out events here.