Pleasance

Little Edie Step back in time with Pickled Image’s tender version of a story that has captivated the world... more

Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin All is not well at number 92…Mrs. Benjamin has disappeared leaving her decaying house to fend for itself... more

Puppet Grinder Cabaret From the beautiful and comical to the grotesque and wonderfully weird come Puppet Grinder Cabaret... more

Little Angel Theatre

Autumn Portraits is a compelling solo puppet-and-mask performance, a series of five interlocking vignettes exploring one puppet character and its interplay with its manipulator.... more

Plucked... A True Fairytale haunting visual theatre, Invisible Thread use a combination of strange animated figures... more

Puppetry and Politics (symposium) A symposium involving talks and presentations on the relationship between puppetry and politics by practitioners, researchers and performers at SUSPENSE... more

Directing Puppetry (talk) An afternoon of discussion with theatre directors who use puppetry in their work and those who work solely in puppetry... more

Stonebelly is a visual poem exploring the power of the imagination to re-dream the world.... more 

Great Small Works presents Triple Bill The award winning Great Small Works was founded in 1995 by six artists who met through their associations with the world famous Bread and Puppet Theater... more

New Diorama Theatre

The House of Bernarda Alba Multi-award winning Yas-e-Tamam Theater Group present this radical new production of the politically and passionately charged Spanish play... more

Pleasance Theatre

The Ecstatic Truth of Bruno S. Once upon a time, the European past was still visible in the future of Berlin, but then the future was forgotten and the past became invisible... more

Nutmeg Presents the Invisible Cities of Margharita Monticiano Four of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities are re-created - four elusive, decadent, shadowy, reflections of La Serenissima - the seductive, rapacious city of Venice... more

Jew(ish) travels from shtetl to city, from past to present, and from the personal to the political in its exploration of cultural identity and belonging... more

Life Still An extraordinarily dark and surreal piece of post apocalyptic sci-fi puppetry... more

Madeleine on Tiptoe The strange and little known story of Madeleine Le Bouc, the 'Angel of Paris' who walked the streets on tiptoe, and the unique relationship she formed with the man who cured her... more

The Tragic and Regrettable Life of Teofila Teadora de la Lima To Ezparanza Medina Villanueva and Victor Ramos Herrera a beautiful baby girl is born... more

Triptych Three stories about love, loss and letting go. A small, lonely figure is lured by the elusive and dangerous promise of flight... more

Urashima Taro Step into the realms of the legend of Urashima Taro - a poor young fisherman who, after saving a turtle is invited by the beautiful and captivating Otohime, to stay in her palace deep in the ocean... more

Puppet Theatre Barge

The Money Game A beguiling marionette spectacle and a reckoning with the economic crash of the decade... more

Rosemary Branch

Winterreise The baritone and stage director Thomas Guthrie brings his own GOT company to the festival in magical productions of Schubert's great song cycles... more

Fragile/Sacred This true story shows a human life pushed beyond its breaking point, where the animalistic intersects with the sublime... more

Passing On Explores the dilemmas and issues facing both relatives and health professionals... more

Spirit takes the audience on a captivating journey of ordinary people’s otherworldly experiences, combining personal stories with music and puppetry... more

Die schöne Müllerin The baritone and stage director Thomas Guthrie brings his own GOT company to the festival in magical productions of Schubert's great song cycles... more

Roundhouse

The Great Puppet Horn Cutting comedy from the UK's leading satirical shadow puppet show, providing cultural critique as only cardboard stuck to sticks can... more

Penumbra Indefinite Articles present a wry discourse on the effects of desire and decay… more

Tour De Force Studio

Love Suicides at Sonezaki In May of 1703 a pair of lovers committed suicide in the woodlands outside of Osaka... more

Wilton's Music Hall

Boris and Sergey’s Puppet Cabaret An evening of entertainment hosted by your favourite eastern European puppet duo Boris and Sergey... more

Tickets for all events can be booked online, or by phoning the Pleasance Box Office on 0207 609 1800. For more information about SUSPENSE, including workshops and masterclasses, and the companies and venues taking part see www.suspensefestival.com