Box Tale Soup, The Sixteen

Box Tale Soup puppetry and physical theatre
Members of The Sixteen

Box Tale Soup is a unique theatre group that combines puppetry, physical theatre and traditional performance in engaging, imaginative and accessible productions of literary classics. Here they combine Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen – performed by two singers and a guitarist from The Sixteen. The performance doesn’t alter Shakespeare’s language in any way, but makes it accessible to younger audience members through the use of puppetry, clear storytelling and music.

Box Tale Soup’s original version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was commissioned by the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.