Our Shows
The Usherette!
As the lights fade, join Fettle and Fable Theatre for a brand new walkabout shadow performance as The Usherette performs ‘Eek!’ featuring mice, mischief and mayhem as we follow our dreams and reach for the moon!
The Usherette performing Eek! was created for ‘Together We Rise’, Cecil Green Arts’ Autumn Lantern Parade at Lister Park, Bradford on 28th October 2022.
Ideal for festivals of light, fire festivals and torchlight parades. Contact us to find out how to make The Usherette part of your event.
Photo: Philip Lickley
This show is available for booking NOW.
Greta’s Glorious Garden!
Roll up your sleeves and come and join us in Greta’s fabulous garden as she prepares to welcome the judges of the glorious garden competition…. but sometimes things don’t always go to plan!
Find out who has been eating their way through the garden, leaving rubbish, causing bother and stumble across friends in need of a helping hand. Beauty is always there if you take the time to look for it.
Discover the joys of the spring and summer, exploring Greta’s garden. Meet characters building homes, raising families, waiting for transformations and take a peek at what happens in the garden at night. This interactive performance features puppetry and shadow puppetry and is aimed at children aged 3-7years.
This show is available for booking NOW.
A Winter’s Tail
This winter, join Greta as she explores her glorious garden and finds that it’s covered in a blanket of thick white snow. As the snowflakes fall, discover where Squirrel hides her nuts, find lost friends, and join the fun playing in the garden.
Filled with all the wonders of winter, the show features puppets and shadow puppetry as the garden animals share their stories. A Winter’s Tail is aimed at 3-7 year olds and their families.
This show is available for booking NOW.
A Winter’s Tail is available to book and is suitable for schools and can be accompanied with a workshop for Foundation & Key Stage 1 children.
Inkonjane - The Lightning Bird.
Through storytelling, puppetry, shadows and music we join the swallow, the bird of two continents, as it roosts alongside millions of its species in southern Africa, to then travel thousands of miles to build its small family home, set against weathered Yorkshire stone, where it can always be found brightening our summer months.
Collaborating with artists from southern Africa, Fettle & Fable theatre will take audiences on a mindful and uplifting journey of exploration, hope and resilience.
This project has been awarded an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant and premiered in September 2021.
This show is available for booking NOW.
Inkonjane - The Lighting Bird s available to book. Suitable for schools and can be accompanied with a workshop for Key Stage 2 children.
Toller’s Neighbours.
‘Toller’s Neighbours’, a traditional Scandinavian folk-tale further developed by Fettle & Fable, highlights themes of friendship, community, the environment and change and will be created and developed for delivery as a ‘puppet suitcase theatre’ project.
Due to its compact scale, this show will be perfect for small Covid-safe ‘bubble-groups’ as well as delivery through digital channels.
This ‘suitcase show’ is available for booking NOW.
The Mitten
An adapted Ukrainian, winter-themed folk-tale suitable for Early Years and school audiences. The Mitten brings to life the magic of the forest in winter and the joys of playing in the snow.
This engaging performance explores the relationships and unexpected friendships created by the animals that make their homes in the winter woods.