Soap Soup Theatre CIC are proud makers of innovative theatre for children and their families, and are dedicated to creating startling work that invites our audiences to co-create the worlds our stories inhabit. Our work is design led, offering a bold, unique visual language, so expect to see and hear creative, colourful design, beautiful puppets, and inventive object work.
We draw from our collaborators’ own passions and experiences to create work that is personal, intimate and a true shared experience.
This is theatre of the senses, and of the heart.
Over the years we have combined the talents of performers, beatboxers, musicians, clowns, puppeteers, puppet makers, set and costume designers, composers, sound and lighting designers, dramaturgs, story-tellers, textile artists, magicians and creative technologists. Our continued ambition is to evolve, learning more from each other and new collaborators to excel in making quality, risk-taking, unique work, with the audiences experience at the heart of what we do.
Photo by Paul Blakemore
A show, picture book and a Theatrical Augmented Reality Experience
What would you do if you moved to a strange new city? All your friends are far away, your new house smells weird, and it rains all the time?!
Kit takes matters into his own hands, when one night, while drawing to pass the time, the swirls and whirls on his page giggle into a life of their own, and a very unusual adventure unfolds! Join Soap Soup Theatre on their most riotous, colourful adventure of all - where a bedroom becomes a forest, a school turns into a solar system and the drawings in your bag have a life of their own!
A story about the magic of creativity.
Devised by one of Bristol’s leading theatre makers for family audiences, and based on a brand new book by Artistic Director Tomasin Cuthbert. Soap Soup Theatre combines high quality children’s theatre with the magic of projection mapping, bringing the vibrant illustrations from the book to life. An unmissable Theatre experience for the whole family.
The Minny Stynker Tour - 2024
We are excited to be taking Minny Stynker on the road. Over the coming months we’ll be bringing this very special show to a venue near you! Here’s where and when you’ll find us…
2024
Front Room, Weston-Super-Mare - 12-13 October - TICKETS
Colchester Arts Centre - 19 October - TICKETS
Crediton Arts Centre - 26 October - TICKETS
Ashburton Arts Centre - 27 October - TICKETS
Lighthouse Poole - 29 October - TICKETS
The Plough, Torrington - 30 October - TICKETS
The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis - 31 October - TICKETS
Harrow Arts Centre, London - 1 November - TICKETS
2025
Brighton Festival, Brighton. - 15th and 16th February
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds - 19th February
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham - 22nd February - TICKETS
Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick. - 27th April
The Soap Soup Art Club is in full swing! Starting in October 2023, Soap Soup Theatre’s Artistic Director Tomasin piloted an after school Art Club in Winscombe, North Somerset for children in year 4,5 and 6, for ages 7-11. If your child has SEN or is under the age of 7, they are still welcome to come along with a parent of trusted adult.
In Art Club we have created puppets, made costumes, sculpted in clay, explored collage and much, much more! Proving popular, the Art Club has now doubled its intake and runs weekly on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 3.30-5pm.
We are planning a 5 day summer school, where we will do bigger creative projects and invite guest artists to share their practice, starting this summer with a local mural project, supported by Winscombe Community Centre!
If you would like your child to attend our Art club Email soapsouptheatrecompany@gmail.com and ask for a sign up form.
Art club is £10 a session and paid for termly. We offer a discount for low/no wage families as well as a sibling discount on request.
