After performing in Hervey Bay at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic – a community family fun day organised by Condy Park Kindergarten, we set off on our journey to our next destination – Boyne Valley. We travelled on unsealed dirt roads to our accommodation in Ubobo last night, then…
Read MoreTroggg has a brand new puppet van! Eventually we’ll have it wrapped in our colourful Larrikin Puppets branding and artwork. We’ve been travelling more than ever for puppet shows, story time performances and puppetry workshops throughout South East Queensland, Central Queensland and beyond, so it…
Read MoreHappy World Puppetry Day and Happy Harmony Day! Troggg and Flossy are sending a big Happy World Puppetry Day and Happy Harmony Day from the second stop on our 2018 Regional Queensland Tour… 📍 Maryborough, Queensland Our 2018 Queensland tour took us…
Read MoreThis week, we took the time to visit Puppet People: A Snapshot of Australian Puppetry – an exhibit at the Tony Gould Gallery in the Cremorne Theatre, QPAC. We saw puppets by Peter Scriven (Marionette Theatre of Australia), David…
Read MoreIn 2017 Larrikin Puppets turned 5 years old. And what great adventures we had this year! Here are all of our puppet highlights from each month of 2017. January – Three final puppet shows at Woodford Folk Festival, after a full week of performances there.
Read MoreElissa and I have had another very busy period in the lead up to Christmas, with puppet shows in childcare centres, libraries, staff Christmas parties, and a series of larger festival events and a shopping centre. This has included a couple of memorable shows in Central Queensland. At…
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We perform puppetry at a lot of events with cakes. As you can imagine, birthday cakes are the main attraction at the birthday parties we visit. But we see cakes at Christmas functions, special events where Troggg is the puppet MC, childcare centre celebrations and various other…
Read MoreBrett and Elissa recently took two weeks off for a “reef to rainforest” holiday. They visited family up in Townsville before exploring the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef (including snorkelling at Hook Island, swimming at Whitehaven Beach and cocktails on Hamilton Island). Then they went down south…
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Puppet People: A Snapshot of Australian Puppetry 10 October 2017 – 27 January 2018 Tony Gould Gallery, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Brisbane A wonderful free exhibition celebrating Australian puppetry was held at the Tony…
Read MoreThe Magic of Mary Poppins Comes to Maryborough Brett and Elissa spent the weekend in Maryborough, Queensland, approximately 255 kilometres north of Brisbane on the Fraser Coast. Maryborough is famous as the birthplace of author P.L. Travers (Helen Lyndon Goff), creator of the beloved…
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