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A small child is wide eyed with joy and excitement as she sees a large puppet come to life

Want us to come to your neck of the woods?

Shows, walk about puppets interactive installations and imaginative experiences for festivals, public spaces and community events.

Bring Babbling Vagabonds to your event

We’d love to talk about how our work could fit your space, audience and programme.

Get in touch to discuss availability and fees.

Not sure what would work best or have a seed of an idea? Let’s start a conversation.

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07816 870267

Here Be Dragons

Interactive storytelling adventure

A bold, playful storytelling experience where audiences step into a world of maps, myths and imagination. Expect live storytelling, audience participation and moments of collective invention as people help bring dragons — and their stories — to life.

Best for: venues, festivals, libraries, schools, village halls and everything in bewtween

Format: interactive performance that brings people together through shared imagination and play.

Two male actors tell a story about a dragon. One actor looks like they are running while the other actor holds the head of a large dragon puppet.

The Post Office of Possibilities

A gentle, creative drop-in experience

Step inside a world where ideas, hopes and small wonders are collected, sorted and sent out into the world. Audiences are invited to write, draw or imagine their own “possibilities” that become part of a growing, shared installation.

Best for: festivals, community events, markets, indoor/outdoor spaces

Format: interactive installation and facilitation that encourages reflection, creativity and meaningful participation

A child stands in front of a tall funny looking postbox which is red, silver and blue. There are flags decorating the space and a gazebo in the background. This is also decorated with bunting which is yellow, blue and red.

Lady of the Loom

Walkabout puppet 

A wandering character who moves quietly through your event, carrying a bag full of objects, memories and small stories. When she pauses, something stirs allowing a tiny moment to unfolds for those nearby.

No stage. No announcements. Just brief, beautiful encounters that audiences discover for themselves.

Best for: festivals, markets, heritage sites, public spaces.

Format: walkabout puppet with a costumed character that creates atmosphere, wonder and connection without disrupting the flow of an event.

A large walk about puppet of an old lady that is carrying her life on her back. She walsk with a costume character of a woman in a pink coat and top hat
Photo Credit: Richard Tymon

 

The Curing Chemist

Walkabout street theatre & playful interaction

Two curious chemists roam your event, diagnosing the public and offering imaginative cures for modern ailments. From bottled bravery to remedies for overthinking, each encounter is created in the moment.

Light, humorous and gently interactive, audiences leave with a bespoke “cure” and a story to carry with them.

Best for: festivals, markets, high streets, outdoor events

Format: A walkabout with a bicycle and trailer that creates laughter, connection and memorable one-to-one encounters

Three costumes characters stand proudly with a bicycle and trailer with yellow and blue flags on a market square. They are the curing chemist ready to dispense remedies to passer bys
Photo Credit: Richard Tymon

 

Robyn And The Book Monster

A theatre adventure with puppets, shadows and mischief.

A monstrously mischievous production where audiences step into a library with it’s own story to tell. Expect puppetry, playful storytelling and plenty of mayhem as Robyn discovers what’s really hiding between the shelves.

Best For: Small venues, community space, libraries and schools

Format: A “For everyone” theatre performance that can span the generations with it innovative, storytelling, puppetry, shadowplay and imaginative visuals

This is a poster for a theatre show. A child looks excitedly into an open book. Snowflakes swirl out of the book and a monster hangs onto the title of the production; Robyn and the book monster

A large puppet designed llike an old lady carrying herlife on her back wanders cromford mill courtyard with their helper who is dressed in a pink coat and wearing a top hat

Photo by Richard Tymon

Our Curing Chemists dressed in Victoriana style costumes are having fun with a man who is sat on a stool and laughing. One of the actors is holfing a colourful umbrella with words written on it of various ailments and they are trying to predict what is wrong with him.
The photo is taken from behind the audience. They are sat in a woodland and are watching a theatre show about a dragon
a man dressed in a colourful floral coat rides a bicycle pulling a small trailer that has poles and bunting
Children gather around a large walkabout puppet, that has been designed like an old lady carrying the world on her back
Two characters dressed as victoriana chemists are pretending to cure a small child who is stood on a yellow wooden box
A yellow and blue flag flaps in the wind and the rest of the shot is unfocused. The flag has blue writing and says Curing Chemist

Photo Credit: Richard Tymon