Minny Stynker Library Tour

Yatton Library and Children’s Centre
5 August (AM), Free tickets

Clevedon Library
5 August (PM), Free tickets

Portishead Library
6 August (AM)

Campus Library, Weston-Super-Mare
6 August (PM), Free tickets

St Andrew’s Primary School, Congresbury
11 September

Yate Library
28 September

A show, picture book and a Theatrical Augmented Reality Experience

Premiered at Tobacco Factory Theatres

Touring Nationally 2024-25

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.

"A fun and playful world full of drawing and imagination" - Backstage Bristol

"A lovely show, the perfect way to entertain busy youngsters" - Backstage Bristol

Photography by Paul Blakemore and Artur Tixiliski
Produced by Soap Soup Theatre
Devised by the company

The Minny Stynker project is a Picture Book, A theatre show and a Theatrical Augmented Reality Experience.

The 3 offerings are for everyone, but the AR experience is particularly for families caring for children with long term illness, and families who don’t feel comfortable in traditional theatre settings.

The Minny Stynker AR Experience is a picture book, when you pop on your headphones and look through your phone's camera using the App, the book comes to life! It is experienced like an audiobook, an animation and a video game combined. Illustrations move, characters talk, and magical things appear around you as you look through your device. The AR experience will be enjoyed in hospitals, care and hospice settings, as well as at home.

The show will be performed at mid scale venues nationally. The solo version will tour to community settings like libraries, schools and community centres.

Minny Stynker premiered at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol in May 2024

Listen: Tomasin Cuthbert on Bristol Community FM, May 2024

Minny Stynker Tour

Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol
29 May - 1 June

The Merlin Theatre, Frome
15 June

The Courtyard, Hereford
13 July, Tickets

The Wardown House, Luton
15 August, Tickets

Little Angel Theatre, London
16 - 18 August, Tickets

Blackwood Miners’ Institute, Caerphilly
21 September, Tickets

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

Creative team

Tomasin Cuthbert Menes - Artistic Director, Producer & Performer
Sarah White - Co producer
Stephanie Kempson - Director
Gabrielle Sheppard - Associate Director
Tom Ball - Composer
Chris Harrison - Projection design
Joe Price - Lighting design
Saikat Ahamed - Dramaturg
Ricardo Ventura - Performer

Funders

Arts Council England
Skinners Foundation
The Nisbet Trust
Coopers Associates
The Gibbs Trust
The Nani Huyu Charitable Trust