Pins and Needles Productions

22/09/2024

Delighted to announce our fabulous festive show The Bear will go on general sale from midday on Monday 23 September.

Based on the wonderful book by Raymond Briggs, this magical show features dazzling puppetry, delicious music, dreamy storytelling, and dozens of laughs and is the perfect Christmas treat for all the family!

watersidearts.org/thebear

Pins and Needles Productions Exeter Northcott

23/07/2024

Production pics of Rising Waters, the community play created with people from villages across the Chew Valley, produced by Valley Arts and staged at Yeo Valley Organic Gardens.

Co-directed by Emma Earle and Kate Mcgregor, Designed by Zoe Squire, written by Toby Hulse, with music from Susanna Ted Waters. The play drew from real and imagined stories about the Chew Valley and its relationship to water.

The production was a culmination of months of research and creative workshops, including fish scale making, clay sculpting, music and song writing and much more. The central fish puppet was created at Puppet Place with Cat Rock, featuring scales made by the local community.

Entries to the Rising Waters writing competition, submitted by all ages, were performed in pop up locations around Yeo Valley Organic Gardens.

Thanks to all the audiences who came to watch the show and to the hundreds of people involved in this special project.

Photos: Natalie Stephens

30/12/2023

24/10/2023

I know it's not even Halloween yet but holidays are coming, holidays are coming... This year our stage adaptation of Raymond Briggs' gorgeous picture book 'Father Christmas' is playing in The Drum in Plymouth, The Berry in Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith in London.

Here's a little trailer the lovely people in Plymouth have put together 💜

Join Santa as he awakes from a dream of sun, sea and sand only to find it is the busiest day of the year: Chr...

21/03/2023

Happy Puppets are so ace. As are the brilliant people who design and make them. Yvonne Stone, Nick Barnes, Max Humphries, Sam Wyer, Jess Jones and many many more. We salute you!

02/03/2023

Happy World Book Day 2023 one and all! We love love love adapting books for the stage and sharing the worlds of brilliant authors with theatre audiences. Here’s to many more exciting imaginative adventures 📕💙💪

15/01/2023

31/12/2022

A HUGE thank you to the cast and crew of our productions of The Bear and Father Christmas who have just finished their Christmas runs. Incredible effort by all to delight thousands of families over the festive period. Hope you all have an lovely New Year and a well deserved break. Midlands Arts Centre - MAC Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

20/12/2022

The Bear was super excited when they visited Grayson’s Art Club: The Exhibition and saw sand for the first time in Andy Greenacre's 'Waste of a Month'!🌅

Come to meet Pins and Needles' Bear before 30 Dec, when they will depart to their natural habitat, and enjoy an unforgettable experience for the whole family!

👉Book your tickets: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/pins-and-needles-the-bear

And by the way, you can enjoy Grayson’s Art Club: The Exhibition as much as The Bear did until Sunday 16 April. Booking essential: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/graysonsartclub

20/12/2022

Looks like our bear is a fan of Grayson’s Art Club exhibition Midlands Arts Centre - MAC

19/12/2022

Our friends at Valley Arts are looking for a Producer. Could this be you? Lovely team to be part of