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  • Level Up! Finding genuine connections in virtual spaces
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    Level Up! Finding genuine connections in virtual spaces

    9 April 2026

    Level Up! Written and directed by Yvan Karlsson playfully utilises video game culture as a way to interrogate friendship and humanity in an increasingly digital world. Exploring what happens when virtual spaces are inhabited with the same morals and standards that we value in the “real world”.

    Reading time • 8 minutesYouth
  • Spring into the school holidays

    Spring into the school holidays

    21 September 2023

    From Awesome activities to magical nannies, there are so many marvellous ways to have a jolly holiday, writes Julie Hosking.

    Reading time • 10 minutesMulti-arts
  • Blueback meets Abel Jackson. Oceans of meaning in gentle tale
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    Oceans of meaning in gentle tale

    3 July 2023

    Blueback asks some deep questions of its audience. Julie Hosking is fully immersed in this moving Spare Parts production.

    Reading time • 5 minutes
  • A goggly-eyed ish puppet opens its mouth as if smiling. He is looking directly at a boy wearing a snorkel whose head is poking through green coral. These are puppets in Blueback. Blueback takes you on a deep journey
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    Blueback takes you on a deep journey

    2 July 2023

    With clever staging, mesmerising movement and rich storytelling, Spare Parts’ production of Blueback captivates junior reviewers Jackson and Chloe Davis.

    Reading time • 4 minutesTheatre
  • A figure clad in black hoists a huge groper puppet above his head, the fish looking out towards the netting in front of them. This is Spare Parts Puppet Theatre's production of Blueback. Keep the kids happy this holidays
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    Keep the kids happy this holidays

    26 June 2023

    Feeling the cold? There’s plenty to warm young hearts (and the young at heart) this July school holidays. Enter a winter wonderland of creative pursuits. 

    Reading time • 10 minutesMulti-arts
  • Plucky chicken steals the show
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    Plucky chicken steals the show

    10 April 2023

    Spare Parts is right at home in the Showground with its latest creation, spinning a yarn that will delight young and old, writes junior reviewer Isabel Greentree.

    Reading time • 5 minutesTheatre
  • What to SEE: Autumn gig guide for kids
    What to SEE

    What to SEE: Autumn gig guide for kids

    6 April 2023

    The school holidays are here and parents and carers everywhere are preparing for the inevitable cries of “I’m bored”. The good news is there’s more than one way to keep the kids happy and it need not cost the earth, writes Julie Hosking.

    Reading time • 10 minutesMulti-arts
  • A puppet holding an axe is perched on a log extending from the arm of his puppeteer. The puppeteer is wearing a bright orange tank top and a woollen head piece. This is a scene from Show Day by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre Let’s go on with the show!
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    Let’s go on with the show!

    4 April 2023

    Spare Parts Puppet Theatre has found a temporary home at Claremont Showground and can’t wait to share the joy of Show Day with all who enter, writes Julie Hosking. 

    Reading time • 10 minutesTheatre
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