Internationally touring performances of Aura of Puppets' members
Aura of Puppets is the largest professional puppetry network in Finland and our repertoire includes a variety of performances for different audiences. There is a good number of performances for youth and adult spectators including black box as well as street theatre.
If you are interested in the performances or wish fro collaboration, contact our International Coordinator
Taru Tuomisto taru(at)auraofpuppets.com
Latest premieres
Non-verbal or in English
Erika Malkki: Pohjatar
Strong and empathic solo performance about finding one’s own strength. Siellä on lohtu ja rauha, irtipäästäminen, hiljaisuus lauha – ja paperinauha. POHJATAR is a performance
Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – Into the Lab
12.–13.4.2024. Praha, 19.–24.4.2024, Turku I Trial & Theatre stretches the scale of performing arts and does the smallest puppetry in the world. Nano Steps –
The Bike theater: A Ball of String
8. & 12.5.2024, Helsinki, 29.8.2024 Fiskars I Come with us and follow the red, the yellow, the blue string…. Kerällä ( A Ball of String)
Diabolos: Satan’s Callback
15.10.–5.11.2024 Helsinki, 8.–9.11.2024 Turku I A grim apartment. Purgatory. An empty picture frame hangs on the wall, and a deserted birdcage rests on the table.
Ivanonva, Rutanen & Co.: Babygonia
28.–29.8.2024 Helsinki, 7.–10.11.2024 Turku I This performance invites babies from eight months up to two and a half years old to arrive at a theatre.
Tehdas Teatteri: Kindred Machines
25.10.–24.11.2024, Turku “How similar are we in the end.” Tehdas Teatteri dives once again into the uncharted waters of theater art! The performance Toiset kaltaiset
Tehdas Theatre & Alma Rajala: Pandora – Opening
6.10.–14.12.2024, Turku |Welcome to the feast of the gods, where the gods are gone. And none of us should be here either… A feast forsaken by
Touring performances in 2025
Livsmedlet: Invisible Lands
10.2.2024, Villa Rana, Jyväskylä I Across the desert, behind our back. Up the mountain, down our spine. Over the sea, just under our nose. On
Teater Håndholdt & Nordic Puppet Ambassadors: The Hermit
The Hermit is a puppet theatrical walking performance and installation about the desire to disappear from society, search for peace and live in solitude. This
Halme & Lumiluoto / KO-KOO-MO Block Theatre: Variation III – Twelve o’clock Setting
PREMIERE, 11.11.2023 The Scenic Restaurant offers peacefulness of nature and glamour. The interior decoration of the restaurant has remained in its original appearance. On the
TheatreQo: Peephole
FOR CHILDREN An ode to playfulness, neighbours and staying home! An Aeroplane flies inside a rain cloud. Below the rain cloud flies a seagull,
Maiju Tainio & Co.: Gilgamesh – Mortal
PREMIERE 8. & 11.11. Find the copper box, Grasp the brass lock, open the lid of secrets, lift up the lapis tablet and read, how
Valtteri Alanen & co.: Silence and Other Impossible Objects
8. & 9.11.2023 Silence and Other Impossible Objects is an attempt at staging an impossibility. Three performers, Eglė Šimėnaitė (LIT), Lara Hereu (ESP) and Valtteri
Teatteri Qo: Tea For Two
21.4. &, 27.5.2023 Helsinki I Two women, two ways. A storm is brewing in the teacup. “Tea for Two” is a short object theatre performance
Trial & Theatre: Nano Steps – a Particle Performance
Nano Steps – a particle performance is a non-verbal performance that portrays an uncanny relationship between two entities across scales and boundaries. The performance inquires
Dirty Duckling: Ariadne – A Mess
22.–23.8.2024 Stockholm, 28.9.–5.10.2024 Turku, 12.10.2024 Berger, Norway I A puppetry solo by Dirty Duckling, specifically Merja Pöyhönen is a skillfully woven one-woman-mess with ugly puppets in
Antti-Juhani Manninen: Ridiculousness
18.11.2023 Tampere A very unusual comedy sketch show from the distant past and the future. A small gem of Turku’s contemporary puppet theatre scene now
Käppi – Rajala – Räikkä: FEAR OF THE FOREST
A mystical puppetry horror tale about Finns and their relationship to the forest. Fear of the forest combines sound art and puppetry with horror and
Nordic Puppet Ambassadors – R
An object theatrical study about balance. Is it possible to make a circus trick with tableware inherited from one’s grandmother? If yes, what does that
Nurinpäin Collective: Hula Hula
Poetic images of impossibilities A visual concert for children inspired by experimental electronic music, theatre of objects and performance art. In this work the composer
Malkki & Lehtovaara: Poor Butterfly
3. November at 6 and 8 pm at Turku City Theatre Poor Butterfly is a tragicomic story about a woman waiting for her lover to
Grus Grus Theatre & Tehdas Theatre: Full Measures
9.–11.5.2024, Turku I A trio for puppet artist, dancer and measure sticks. The show begins in a simple yet enigmatic setting: a random meeting
