Green Ginger

17/08/2024

Had the pleasure of seeing this amazing retrospective exhibition of one of the UK's best-loved and most talented puppet makers. Alongside countless productions for Little Angel Theatre, Lyndie has created works for Kneehigh and Wise Children, , and teaches at Curious School of Puppetry.
Catch this if you can - on until 13 October...
Hauser & Wirth

17/08/2024

This is our tasty new trailer for RATLab; the STEM-based show that Green Ginger has been touring into primary schools in areas of socio-economic deprivation.
Video by Light-up Media
Directed by Aileen Gonsalves
Performers Martin Bonger, Kim Heron, Alexander, Chris Pirie
Tech Stage Management by Den Breeje
Co-produced with Prime Theatre and University of Bath
Production by Thea Woodrow and Chris Pirie
Funded by Arts Council England and Orthopaedic Research UK

17/08/2024

The first ever Puppet Place Art and Craft Market is only a few weeks away!
Be ready on the 31st of August at Puppet Place to meet all of these amazing vendors open from 11am to 4pm! Check them out below to get a sneak peak at what’s coming!

Don’t miss out!!




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Plus work from Puppet Place’s own resident artists!

Poster by

12/08/2024

Should have done this ages ago...

28/06/2024

Happening tomorrow
A special treat for all those non- Glasto peeps!

Join us for a night of puppet film wonder as Puppet Place presents a special screening of ‘Handmade Puppet Dreams’, from Heather Henson and the Green Feather Foundation. Founded in 2004, Handmade Puppet Dreams is a traveling film series that promotes independent puppetry artists exploring their ...

28/05/2024

💛TEAM RAT💛
until next time…🐀🔬

28/05/2024

Company Favourites!
To celebrate tour ending, here are some of the many many photos taken across our time on the road- just our faves!💛🐀🔬

16/05/2024

As we head towards our final week on tour … let me introduce you to the RATLab 2024 team!
Martin, Chris and Kim return from the previous tour, and introducing Rae and Berry!
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06/05/2024

Life on the road recently!
Happy Bank Holiday everyone, we can’t wait to kick off the week bright and early tomorrow. Here’s a few from recent schools, including our evening public performance. Enjoying every second in the lab so far!🐀🔬

28/04/2024

Looking forward to Week 3 of the RATLab Tour into Swindon Primary schools. Despite gruelling early starts - an hour's drive, unloading a vanload, to be set-up for shows as early as 9.15am - the tour has been really fun to do. I'm blessed with an amazing crew of fellow theatre makers, and am immensely proud of the show we created. Scan the QR code for more...

19/04/2024

19/04/2024

Rounding out the week at our lovely second stop on the tour!🐀🔬🦴

16/04/2024

PUPPETRY WINS AGAIN!!!
Big up to two of the loveliest and most talented practitioners and so glad they are getting the richly desrved recognition Max Humphries and Laura Cubitt

Derek Bond accepts the award for Best Family Show for Dinosaur World Live at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.The award for Best Family Show presented by Misch...

15/04/2024

All set up for shows 1+2 today!
We can’t wait to get back to the lab!🐀🔬

14/04/2024

We’re ready to welcome a whole new team of Research Assistants to the RATLab starting tomorrow! Everyday engineers who will help us get the job done. We’ve already welcomed two smaller teams to the lab recently and it has been a great success- tour begins tomorrow!
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12/04/2024

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11/04/2024

Checking the socials to see what’s in store for 2024… 🐀🔬

10/04/2024

The company is really excited to be launching its latest 6-week tour of RATLab next Monday. Thanks to generous funding from Orthopaedic Research UK, we will deliver to thousands of KS2 children in Swindon area primary schools.

10/02/2024

Coming up soon!

Join a free workshop led by theatre engineer and puppeteer Chris Pirie, upcycling domestic and industrial junk into fantastic creatures

31/01/2024

We are sad to be saying goodbye to an old friend and trusted collaborator after a long illness. James/Jamie was ‘family’ in many ways; he was founder Terry Lee’s brother-in-law, and became Green Ginger’s touring technician from 1994 until 2007. He was instrumental in the way technologies were woven into the company’s work. His unique mind delighted in the absurd, and this, with a passion for reviving and recycling old equipment, helped to shape our visual and sonic languages, and became no small part in Green Ginger’s theatre-making practices.
Jamie’s contributions to Frank Einstein, Slaphead - Demon Barber, Bambi - The Wilderness Years, and Rust have shaped the ways we still embrace the digital with lo-fi, and try to promote a working culture of repair, recycling and repurposing with all of the assets and tools we employ. We will miss his creative, chaotic and curious mind, his love of music from all corners of the planet, and his essential humanity. Our thoughts are with his family.

06/11/2023

The Spice Box, our beloved street show that was originally created for ’Brien, is being re-imagined as a seasonal collaboration with Brunel's SS Great Britain!

Mysterious cargo has been left on the quayside of the SS Great Britain in the countdown to Christmas. What treasures does it hold? What is that scratching sound coming from inside, and why does it smell of cinnamon?

Artists from Puppet Place join forces with their neighbours at the SSGreat Britain to bring you a Christmas Spicebox, performed by Michele O’Brien and Chris Pirie Green Ginger directed by me, with props and puppets by Green Ginger and Opposable Thumb Theatre. At Brunel's SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Gas Ferry Rd, Bristol BS1 6TY. Show included with general admission, performances throughout the day on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 December 2023. For more info and booking see



(A single wooden crate, encased in green panels and tied with a rope, sits on a wooden pallet on the quayside. Beside it are bits of driftwood and a brown burlap sack. Parts of a boat yard are visible in the background.)

03/04/2023