Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

{{Short description|Puppet theatre in Fremantle, Western Australia}}

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The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is located at 1–9 Short Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, in Pioneer Park, opposite the Fremantle railway station.

History

The building was constructed as a commercial building in 1921. It is a two-storey limestone building with a corrugated iron roof, constructed in the Federation Free Classical style of architecture. The building was used as the State Shipping Service Office. In 1975 it was vested in the City of Fremantle and in September 1978 it was officially opened as the Fremantle Art Gallery.{{Cite web| author1=Fremantle Art Gallery | title=Selection from the City of Fremantle collection, official opening exhibition, September 10 – October 9, 1978 | publication-date=1978 | publisher=The Gallery | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9595343 | accessdate=28 December 2011 }} In 1988 it was refurbished to specifically accommodate the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.

Heritage value

The building is listed on the City of Fremantle's Municipal Heritage List.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/files/8a085022-191f-4713-80ee-9f7a00b8119c/Heritage_Areas_LPS4_2011.pdf|title=City of Fremantle Heritage List|publisher=City of Fremantle|accessdate=28 December 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319121238/http://www.fremantle.wa.gov.au/files/8a085022-191f-4713-80ee-9f7a00b8119c/Heritage_Areas_LPS4_2011.pdf|archivedate=19 March 2012|df=dmy-all}}

Current use

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre was founded by Peter Wilson,{{Cite book|title=The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia|author1=Rubin, Don|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1998|volume=5|page=84|isbn=978-0-415-05933-6}} Cathryn Robinson and Beverley Campbell-Jackson in 1981,{{Cite book|title=Theatre Australia (un)limited: Australian theatre since the 1950s|author1=Milne, Geoffery|year=2004|publisher=Rodopi|page=358|isbn=90-420-0930-6}} as part of an artist-in-residency program initiated by the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT){{snd}}now Curtin University of Technology. The company's first project was a puppet adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus for the 1981 Festival of Perth. For the first seven years, the company was a touring company, but in 1998 it acquired the Fremantle Art Gallery as a permanent home. From 1997 through to 2001, the company was under the artistic direction of Noriko Nishimoto. In 2001 Philip Mitchell was appointed the company's new artistic director.

In April 2008 the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre hosted the 20th UNIMA (Union Internationals de la Marlonette) World Puppetry Festival and Congress.

In a 2022 collaboration with The Doge NFT,{{cite web | url=https://www.ownthedoge.com/?wow=doge | title=The Doge NFT }}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}} Spare Parts Puppet Theatre produced Australia's first NFT collection{{cite web | url=https://opensea.io/collection/sparepartspuppets | title=Spare Parts Puppets - Collection }}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}} for a theatre company.{{cite web | url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/can-nfts-do-good-for-theatre-2565567/ | title=Can NFTS 'do good' for theatre? | date=20 July 2022 }}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}} They also built a Doge puppet, which now has its own TikTok.{{cite web | url=https://www.tiktok.com/@thedogepuppet/ | title=TikTok }}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}}

The NFT collection was photographed by Louise Coghill.{{cite web |url=https://www.louisecoghill.com.au/ |title=Home |website=louisecoghill.com.au}}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}}{{cite web | url=https://www.sppt.asn.au/2022/07/12/spare-parts-puppet-theatre-explores-the-world-of-nfts/ | title=Spare Parts Puppet Theatre explores the world of NFTS! | date=12 July 2022 }}{{full citation needed |date=April 2025}}

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

History

Heritage value

Current use

References

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