The Out the Box Festival in Cape Town

Puppetry & Visual Performance is a visual feast of performances, workshops, talks, exhibitions and films that cater for adults and children alike

For adult audiences, artists present their wildest and most beautiful imaginings in works using puppetry, projection, objects, multi-media and live performers. At the forefront of contemporary theatre worldwide, Visual Performance is about collaboration and experimentation.

The Out The Box festival has created a Family Festival programme of puppetry and visual performance from around the globe, featuring both overseas artists and pre-eminent Southern African theatre practitioners.

An extraordinary range of shows are on offer, some that will appeal to the sophisticated tastes of older children and teenagers like Lennie and the Wasteland, as well as well as shows that will cast a spell of wonder over the very young.

Take a journey through Africa with Tales from the Calabash; Indlovu People; Taku and the Rainbow Princess and Embo, or be inspired by stories from other parts of the world with productions like Oruk from Sweden, or Lost and Found from Canada.

For those who want to get more deeply immersed in the experience, a range of exciting workshops will be presented by specialists in the many diverse forms of puppetry, including a workshop by South Africa’s national treasure Handspring Puppet Company.

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