Terrapin

Terrapin Terrapin puts what matters in motion. Our purpose is to make lives better, shift realities and create connections, and we’ve been doing it for over 40 years.

The adventurous life of our favourite feathery-tailed ferret:16,000 people and counting have met Feathers. 14,676 of tho...
05/06/2026

The adventurous life of our favourite feathery-tailed ferret:

16,000 people and counting have met Feathers. 14,676 of those were kids on our 2024 schools tour: classrooms across Tasmania encountering live puppetry, some for the first time, watching a character who learns to celebrate exactly what makes them different.

Schools tours like this one reach kids who might not otherwise see live theatre. If you'd like to help us keep going, we'd love to have you. You can make a donation here: https://bit.ly/terrapin-donate

Stride Workshop: Writing for Stage and Dramaturgy with Terrapin Creative Associate Sarah HamiltonWant to learn how to wr...
28/05/2026

Stride Workshop: Writing for Stage and Dramaturgy with Terrapin Creative Associate Sarah Hamilton

Want to learn how to write for the stage?

In this free hands-on weekend workshop, Sarah will guide participants through the creative process: from generating an idea to drafting, sharing and refining your work.

Over two days, you’ll explore:
– Writing for stage and puppetry
– An introduction to dramaturgy
– Sharing and workshopping your work

Whether you’re completely new to performance writing or already have some experience, this is a space to explore, create and collaborate.

Saturday 06 & Sunday 07 June
10am–4pm Saturday & 10am–1pm Sunday
Register: https://dm7mamxg.paperform.co/

Anthem Anthem Revolution is heading to Darwin Festival!Battle the table tennis table robot to unlock a new hip hop natio...
27/05/2026

Anthem Anthem Revolution is heading to Darwin Festival!

Battle the table tennis table robot to unlock a new hip hop national anthem written by Tasmanian children in collaboration with pakana rapper DENNI

This is a new track for a new generation.

Goldfish is headed to Darwin Festival!This work is particularly close to our hearts. After our 2025 international tour, ...
23/05/2026

Goldfish is headed to Darwin Festival!

This work is particularly close to our hearts. After our 2025 international tour, a five-star review in The Age, Green Room Awards for lighting and direction, and a Tasmanian Theatre Award for best new writing - we're so proud to see Goldfish is finding new audiences.

Darwin, we'll see you soon.

22/05/2026

Our favourite pop-up book escapee Benny is off to Taiwan!

This July, The Paper Escaper is headed to the Taipei Children's Art Festival.

臺北表演藝術中心 Taipei Performing Arts Center

07/05/2026

Tonight, Matter Era opens at Battersea Arts Centre - BAC in London, marking the start of a UK and European tour.

Part installation, part performance, Matter Era was made in Tasmania in January after two creative developments with UK artist Tim Spooner.

On stage, creatures flock. Objects search without seeing, pulled together by attraction. There's a feeling of empathy in the room.

No two performances will be the same.

28/04/2026

Puppetry, but not as you know it.

Matter Era reimagines what’s alive, what’s moving, and what’s possible, a performance where objects take on a life of their own.

We can’t wait to bring this new world to Battersea Arts Centre - BAC in London.

Something we're often asked is, why the name Terrapin?A terrapin is a type of turtle, carrying its home on its back.Like...
23/04/2026

Something we're often asked is, why the name Terrapin?

A terrapin is a type of turtle, carrying its home on its back.

Like the terrapin, we carry our home with us on tour - through story, through people, from schools to the stage. We've been doing it this way since 1981.

19/04/2026

You may have seen Rum’un at Gather Round last weekend - but did you know that was built in the Terrapin workshop?

We worked with the to create the now-beloved puppet, seeking advice, feedback and hands-on making from young football fans around Tasmania.
Music credit: Dean Stevenson, You & Me and the Space Between, 2016

16/04/2026

Matter Era is a new international project, developed across three years of creative developments in Hobart and London in collaboration with UK artist Tim Spooner.

Its next phase is a premiere season at the Battersea Arts Centre - BAC, London, before a season at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Westflügel Leipzig in Germany.

Part installation, part performance, this shifting landscape animates objects and materials so much so that they feel alive.

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77 Salamanca Place
Hobart, TAS
7004

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+61362236834

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