Puppets with Guts creates living stories for big spaces.

We design large-scale puppetry, participatory performance and story worlds where audiences don’t just watch — they take part.

Rooted in outdoor arts, our work grew from building giant puppets and performances for festivals and cities into creating experiences shaped by agency, embodiment and shared participation. We design worlds rather than fixed narratives, allowing stories to unfold through movement, choice and connection.

Our practice combines craft, design and world-building to create work that is physical, social and transformative, operating at scale without losing intimacy.

We believe stories belong in the body, in shared space, and in the relationships between people. Our ambition is to help shape the future of storytelling — creating generous, rigorous work for big spaces that brings people together and invites them inside the story.

Crafting the physical tools of living stories.
At Puppets with Guts, design and making isn’t just about building objects — it’s about creating systems, environments and tools that help bring stories to life in big spaces. Whether for theatre, street events, festivals or collaborative programmes, we blend creative thinking with technical rigour to design things that are expressive, reliable and fit for purpose.

We make work that is durable, scalable and responsive, engineered to support participation, movement and shared experience.

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