SNUFF PUPPETS are a giant puppet company based in Melbourne, Australia.

We combine the elements of puppetry, live music, visual and physical theatre to create a unique and idiosyncratic performance language; engineering puppet/audience collisions to leave both parties breathless.

We create theatrical experiences that are visceral and accessible.

All that is taboo in our society we tackle, with a vulgar, irreverent, gratuitously violent and comic sensibility.

We call upon the laws of cartoon humour to take the place of gravity and conjure up the spirits of the dead to keep the living in line.

We have an anarchic sense of fun and a splendid sense of tragedy that unite to portray the foibles and flaws of human nature.

We arrive like a circus, parading through the town using our outdoor and roaming performances to entice audiences inside the theatre.

We have expanded our possible audience to include performances at pubs, nightclubs, street events, festivals and rock concerts.

All our work contains the trademark Snuff Puppet elements: a blackly dangerous humour, an incisive political satire, shamelessly handmade visual aesthetic; populist, free, joyous conflagration of art, audience and artist.

- words by pauline cady