Little Angel Theatre, Puppet theatre in Islington, England
Little Angel Theatre is a puppet theatre in Islington, London, housed in a small building with a single auditorium that seats around 100 people. The programme changes throughout the year and covers a range of puppetry styles and production formats.
The theatre opened in November 1961 in a former Temperance hall, becoming London's first permanent home for professional puppetry. Its founder, John Wright, transformed the space specifically to give puppetry a lasting place in the city's theatre life.
Little Angel Theatre is one of the few venues in London devoted entirely to puppetry, and audiences can often see the puppets up close after a show. This gives visitors a rare chance to notice the details of how each figure is made and moved.
The theatre sits in Dagmar Passage in Islington and is easy to reach by Underground or bus. Shows for younger children often run in the morning or early afternoon, so checking the schedule before visiting is a good idea.
Little Angel Theatre runs its own workshop where every puppet is built from scratch for each production, meaning no figure is ever reused from one show to another. Each puppet is made to fit a specific story, and once that production ends, the figure has no other role to play.
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