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Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones

Carlton

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🗓️Tue 22 Sep 2026 · +4 more dates
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Dates & times

Tue 22 Sep · 6pm – 6:50pm
Wed 23 Sep · 6pm – 6:50pm
Thu 24 Sep · 6pm – 6:50pm
Fri 25 Sep · 6pm – 6:50pm
Sat 26 Sep · 6pm – 6:50pm

About

Household junk transformed into surreal shadow puppets. Using bits of rubbish and everyday objects, Bunk Puppets transform the ordinary into inventive shadow worlds.

After touring internationally and delighting audiences across dozens of countries, Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones returns to Melbourne with its signature blend of ingenuity and play.

Toys, brooms, boxes and scraps become dancing figures, dramatic showdowns, and unexpected stories, all created live and in full view; every reveal on the screen is a giddy surprise. At the centre is a wide-eyed puppeteer, caught up in the chaos of it all.

Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones blends shadow puppetry, clown, and physical theatre into a hilarious, imaginative spectacle. Perfect for audiences aged 4 to 104.

The Melbourne Festival of Puppetry shows at La Mama have staggered start times so you can enjoy more than one show in a day, and hang out at La Mama HQ in between with free snacks and juice for the kids and coffee for the bigger kids.

Getting there

Carlton

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