For the fifth year the Curious Puppets Festival returns to the Rosemary Branch Theatre.
The 2025 festival kicks off with a series of Curious Cabaret! nights, with acts created and performed by the Still CuriousCurious School of Puppetry alumni and Curious team.
Emily Morus-Jones presents two evenings of short films and a comedy lecture Puppets on Film.
Swallow’s Wings Puppetry present a unique, one-time performance of non-verbal puppet show The Lion’s Roar – a vibrant mix of puppetry, dance, and West African music.
The Ugly Duckling is adapted by Mike Shepherd founder of Kneehigh with puppets by Lyndie Wright, the founder of the Little Angel Theatre.
Curious School of Puppetry is a training programme for adults who are seeking to expand their professional work and creative practice with the art of puppetry. Founded in 2015 by Sarah Wright, the national touring school is artist-led and focuses on puppetry performance, theatre making, and collaboration.
Curious Cabaret!
6, 7, 8 & 15 November 2025
7.30pm
Acts created and performed by Still Curious and Curious team including Aqiong Zhang, Alex Young, Dix McDevitt, Edie Edmundson, Hector Huang, Lee Maeda, Sarah Wright, Mike Shepherd, Rachel Leonard, Rob Tygner, Nico Venables, and Louise Mellor.
Tickets:£15 Standard, £10 Concession, £18 Support The Arts
Age restriction:12+
www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/curious-puppets-festival-15
The Lion’s Roar (and other stories)
9 November 2025
3pm
Swallow’s Wings Puppetry present a unique, one-time performance of our non-verbal puppet show—a vibrant mix of puppetry, dance, and West African music. Expect laughter, surprises, and plenty of interaction for all ages. Don’t miss it—something magical is waiting to be found!
Age restriction: 4+
www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/the-lions-roar-and-other-stories
Puppets on film with Emily Morus-Jones
November 13th & 14th 2025
7.30pm
An evening of short puppet films and a talk, with film, by Emily Morus-Jones. The Greatest Plans o’ Muppets and Men…A feminist puppeteer and filmmaker does geeky Dave Gorman-style stand-up in this comedy lecture contemplating the place of unfinished experiences in an artist’s evolution. Emily Morus-Jones explores the trials and tribulations of trying to make a film when your workmates can’t be trusted, or when there’s a plague locking down the entire world, or when you simply have no idea what you’re doing. Weird. Welsh. Woman.
Tickets:£15 Standard, £10 Concession, £18 Support The Arts
Age restriction:14+
www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/curious-puppets-festival-15
The Ugly Duckling
8 & 15 November
Saturdays, 3pm
When Mother Duck’s eggs start to hatch, one of her ducklings is a little bit different from the others. He’s larger, clumsier and just, well, not quite like the rest… This beautiful new show from Kneehigh’s Mike Shepherd fuses storytelling, music and puppets from Lyndie Wright (The Little Angel) to bring the beloved Hans Christian Andersen tale to life in a sweet, silly and sometimes sad show for children aged three and up.
Tickets:£12 Standard, £5 Children, £20 family ticket
Age restriction:3+
www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/hans-christian-andersens-the-ugly-duckling
Venue: The Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2 Shepperton Road London, N1 3DT
Dates: 6-15 November 2025
Website: www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk