Reach for the Sky

Information

Reach for the Sky is an immersive puppetry experience for early years audiences, exploring emotions and diverse ways of perceiving the world through non-verbal storytelling. Puppeteers guide audiences through sensory play and imaginary worlds via two contrasting characters: one graceful and accepting, the other clumsy yet creatively imaginative.Targeting early years audiences and their families it is a sensory, non-conventional theatre show with a blend of puppetry, live music and sensory engagement: fog, bubbles, ball drops, kids on bouncy balls. Children can move freely, making it a relaxed performance and much more accessible for audiences. The work has two components that led to a completely sold out 3 week season: immersive and participatory instagram gold combined with an early years audience. Our experience is that there is strong market demand for early years and immersive work.
Company
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre
Company / Artist Bio
Founded in 1981 in Fremantle, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is the longest running theatre company in Western Australia. Through puppetry we share stories that celebrate what it is to be human; connecting audiences across generations. Over the course of our 40+ year history we have entertained and enriched the lives of many, we have created over 80 new Australian works and performed to over 2.6 million people. Every year SPPT hits the road spending 3 months on a national theatre tour, 4-5 months touring regional Western Australian schools and travelling to 10+ festivals nationally and internationally presenting large scale interactive works.
Location
WA
Artform
Puppetry
Audience
Children and Families
Venue suitability
Black boxFestival
Reviews
“…the young crowd are involved throughout, their involvement evident in their yelled advice to the actors, their shouts of glee and their willingness to join in a game of “keepy uppy” - STAGE WHISPERS
Duration
50 minutes
Touring Party
5
Previous Seasons
December 2025, schools season, Fremantle, WA; January 2026, sold out 3 week season, Fremantle, WA.
Estimated Remount Cost
$20k+
Weekly Sell-Off Fee
$10 - 15k
Royalty %
10
Availability
2029 or later
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/sparepartspuppets/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/sparepartspuppets
Contact Name
Jessica Rogerson
Contact Phone
0459 090 846
Contact Email
producer@sppt.com.au

Program information

Presentation date
Tuesday 8 September
APAX presentation type
Pitch

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