...years of care and experience pouring into every beat.
A total joy and masterclass in artist-led work with children at the centre.
Hope Ward-Brown, Associate Director, Old Vic Theatre
Heartfelt thanks to everyone at the Unicorn Theatre for a hugely successful run of Your Toys, the show where every single puppet character is a toy or object lent to us by the audience.
Thanks to the hundreds of people, young and old, who came to join the adventure in the home of theatre for children in London.
Every element of Your Toys springs directly from in-depth research and collaboration with primary-aged children, and the piece is created to Theatre Green Book benchmarks.
Slot Machine Theatre is one of the leading UK theatre companies creating child-centred work and if you’d like to know more, please contact Emma Dolman, our Exec Producer, on emma@slotmachinetheatre.com
★★★★ ‘A unique and inventive piece of theatre .. Deeply satisfying’ Everything Theatre
★★★★★ ‘Very funny and full of invention. It’s delightful’ Lou Reviews
‘I loved the show. A really accomplished piece of theatre for younger audiences, with cleverly executed puppetry’
Oliver Hymans, Associate Director Little Angel Theatre
‘A surprising and joyous combination of technical skill, great storytelling and bags of heart’
Lee Lyford, Theatre Director, Artistic Director of Theatre Iolo, the Welsh Young People’s Theatre
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Caroline Partridge, Course Leader
Slot Machine Theatre’s mentoring and training projects spring from our collaborative roots as theatre makers, and the desire to share skills and support fellow practitioners. We are passionate about puppetry as an art form and working with theatre makers and performers to ensure that it is accessed as diversely as possible.
In the Summer of 2025 Slot Machine Theatre, in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and supported by Little Angel Theatre and Black Country Touring, ran an intensive Puppeteering Course for performers from the global majority.