Puppet Parlour

Puppet Parlour Headstrung brings you the Puppet Parlour, Shambala Festivals resident puppetry tent. Expect music, laughter, drama, explosions and a whole lot of mayhem!

WHAT A TEAM! These are just some the faces responsible for making the magic happen. Performers, puppeteers, ushers, work...
07/09/2026

WHAT A TEAM!
These are just some the faces responsible for making the magic happen. Performers, puppeteers, ushers, workshop leaders, technicians, stage managers, artists, comperes, you’re all absolute legends!!!!
Thank you to all of our wonderful audiences, for wading through the mud, queuing up in the rain and making puppetry part of your festival! We love you!

Photo by Collen Chandler

It's the last day people! Make it count!
30/08/2026

It's the last day people! Make it count!

Day two!!!!!
29/08/2026

Day two!!!!!

Let's go!!!
28/08/2026

Let's go!!!

Yes the Horror Hour is taking a break this year. Purely because we simply had to make room for the darkly sinister, twis...
23/08/2026

Yes the Horror Hour is taking a break this year. Purely because we simply had to make room for the darkly sinister, twisted fairy tale PIXIEMATOSIS...

A happy/sad tale of tiny extraordinary creatures living in a nocturnal paradise who realise, far too late, that they are being exploited for a sinister purpose.⁠
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Featuring sqwonky puppets, odd-automata and a slew of charity-shop rejects, PIXIEMATOSIS is not unlike watching a lost episode of Bagpuss, filmed by the Tales of the Unexpected crew… or witnessing Fingermouse being folded up and used to stop a pub table wobbling.⁠
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Come along, be charmed, be appalled; get swept up in the existential madness of it all.⁠

By theOBJECTproject
For adults and ages 13+

The truly wonderful Travelled Companions return with a new Creative Play Session: THE COLOUR MONSTERThe Colour Monster i...
23/08/2026

The truly wonderful Travelled Companions return with a new Creative Play Session: THE COLOUR MONSTER
The Colour Monster is feeling muddled. His emotions are all jumbled up and he doesn’t know what to do. Can you come and help us show the colour monster how to feel himself again? Using puppetry, movement, play and live music we’ll explore emotions and colours inspired by The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. A gentle and fun creative play session for young children up to age 5 and their grown ups.

You can't keep a good nan down! Nana Funk's Variety Pack Cabaret is back!Saturday night brings you the best of the best ...
22/08/2026

You can't keep a good nan down! Nana Funk's Variety Pack Cabaret is back!

Saturday night brings you the best of the best in puppet cabaret. Featuring acts from our wonderful Puppet Parlour team and hosted by the one and only Nana Funk ! Expect the surreal, the beautiful and the bizarre!

You are all cordially invited to the MONSTER DISCO and what better way to make an entrance than turning up with your ver...
22/08/2026

You are all cordially invited to the MONSTER DISCO and what better way to make an entrance than turning up with your very own creature creation! Come along to the Puppet Parlour tent and make yourself a monstrous new friend, then bring them on down to Sunday’s Monster Disco to throw some shapes on the dance floor!

A big Puppet Parlour welcome to.... PROFESSOR SLUG'S HOUSE OF BUGS!Professor Slug is an eccentric expert on invertebrate...
21/08/2026

A big Puppet Parlour welcome to.... PROFESSOR SLUG'S HOUSE OF BUGS!

Professor Slug is an eccentric expert on invertebrates who helps bugs out with their buggy problems – and you can too!
Get as strong as an ant! Teach a bee how to buzz! And help a dung beetle make a pooey perfume for its big date…

This interactive show is packed full of colourful puppets, catchy songs, and educational info about the wonderful world of bugs.

The puppets are designed by Georgia Hill (CBeebies) with music written by Catriona Gisby (Elle & the Pocket Belles).

The show is also partnered with wildlife conservation charity Buglife and the Royal Parks Nature Roadshow.

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