Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is thrilled to unveil the expanded 2025 season of Puppet Playtime, our acclaimed early years program designed for children aged 3-5.

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE presents Hometown
A new puppet musical inspired by a story by Shaun Tan

We are beyond excited to announce our upcoming tour of our early years program, Puppet Playtime!

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE & WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS
present
3rd Year Performance Making Students 2024 production
𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀

Get ready to wriggle your fingers and embark on a creative journey like no other! Spare Parts Puppet Theatre are set to take over the 2024 Perth Royal Show from September 21, offering a feel-good, free event that the whole family will love.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is thrilled to announce these outstanding WA artists for its sought-after Artist in Residence Program for 2024.

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE presents Hare Brain
A twisted spin on Aesop’s The Tortoise and The Hare

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is ecstatic to announce the national tour of our award-winning puppet musical, The One Who Planted Trees.

Later this year Spare Parts Puppet Theatre will stage a new puppet musical Hometown inspired by a story by Shaun Tan.  

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre champions the artform of puppetry by providing professional development opportunities for performers, artists and designers to cultivate their skills within the artform.

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE presents Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Adapted from the book by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas

The reviews are in for our premiere season of Pillow Fight, a raucous comedy about two siblings locked in a heroic battle to discover who broke Great Grandma’s biscuit barrel

An invitation to all to experience the joy in 2024

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE presents Pillow Fight
When history meets mystery, laughter is the only ticket you need!

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE & WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS
present
3rd Year Performance Making Students 2023 production
The Memory Palaces

Spare Parts is thrilled to announce a new partnership with PLD in support of our ‘Go for 2&5 Regional Schools Tour’ in 2024!

Sophie, pictured here with her Grandmother Catherine is one of our youngest and newest Puppet Parents.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s home is in Walyalup, Fremantle, and we respectfully acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as the traditional owners and custodians of the unceded land on which we create our work. As we tour across these vast lands, we pay our respect to all First Nations elders, past and present and celebrate their continuing connection and contribution to culture, country and community.

For the first time ever, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre will be presenting at the Perth Royal Show, bringing The Queen Bee experience to the Ellie Eaton Theatre, September 23-30.

Since February we have welcomed over 500 children aged 3 to 5 to our Creative Learning Centre to experience Puppet Playtime.

Spare Parts is excited to announce two new partnerships!

Meet the lovely Jan and Bryan Rodgers with their puppet adoptee, Rabbit from the production Rules of Summer!

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is thrilled to announce the selected recipients for its sought-after Artist in Residence Program for 2023.

SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE presents Blueback
Adapted by Peta Murray from the book by Tim Winton

This EOFY Spare Parts Puppet Theatre invites our community to make a tax-deductible donation to our Puppet Playtime Giving Appeal. 

On Wednesday 12th April we were delighted to present Puppets in the City to our wonderful community, with close to 5000 people attending on the day!

Celebrating 7 years as Puppet Parents Natalia, Mia and Sarah Vollrath-Hale first joined the Adopt a Puppet Program in 2016.

Calling all theatre enthusiasts and curious students!

As Australia’s leading puppetry company, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, is dedicated to providing professional development opportunities for performers, artists and designers to cultivate their skills within the artform of puppetry.

World Puppetry Day is a celebration of the art form of puppetry, which has been appreciated by people all around the world for centuries. On this day, we celebrate the creativity and artistry of puppeteers everywhere, and recognize the important role that puppets play in our culture.

PUPPETS IN THE CITY
Free community school holidays event, Forrest Place, Perth City, April 12

WA’s adored puppet company will return to regular performances for Perth families, presenting the world premiere of Show Day at the Claremont Showground for the April school holidays from April 8, 2023.

Minderoo Foundation partners with Spare Parts Puppet Theatre to inspire young minds.

Celebrating 10 years as a Puppet Parent, Minister Simone McGurk adopted “Ruffy”, soon after she was elected as the MLA for Fremantle in 2013.

Let your child’s imagination run wild with Puppet Playtime – an innovative early years puppetry program by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Monique Beaudoire as the new General Manager of Spare Parts!

Chair of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, David Mofflin, announced today a step change in the growth of the renown puppet company.

Inspired by local stories and memories of the Albany Agricultural Show

SPPT and WAAPA’s Performing Arts students partner up once again. Don’t miss The Last Ship Left!

We are delighted to bring the magic of puppetry to local libraries in the coming school holidays!

Calling all worker bees, drones and nurse bees, your Queen awaits!

We have been overwhelmed by the amount of love and support we have received since announcing the closure of our theatre space in Fremantle.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre has taken home two major awards at this year’s Performing Arts WA Awards.

With heavy hearts, we must cancel The Secret Garden and our summer season of Hare Brain.