Suitcase was first developed for the Big West Festival in Melbourne, 2002, travelled to the UK in 2006, and was recently performed to much acclaim at the 2008 ASSITEJWorld Congress & Performing Arts Festival in Adelaide, Australia. It takes place across 30 – 45 minute* period and is highly flexible, capable of performances within a theatre or outside. It is suitable for all ages.

Begun in 1999, Krinkl Theatre crinkle, wrap and sticky tape newspaper, plastic bags, coloured paper and other discarded objects to create delightful visual images and puppets. Innovative and engaging puppet theatre for the whole family, Krinkl keeps its audience sitting on the knife’s edge between the fantasy of animated objects and the reality of rubbish.

All performances are non-verbal and endeavour to creatively raise the awareness of audiences around social and environmental issues.

Since their inception Krinkl Theatre have performed their works in Slovenia; Singapore; South Korea; Walsall, England; Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford; Bellingen; Adelaide; Sydney; and Melbourne

Krinkl Theatre founders Lara Cruickshank and Padi Bolliger are trained puppeteers. They create their own work, accept commissions, and act as coordinators where appropriate. Krinkl were the major coordinators for The Puppet Caravan (Official event, UMINA World Congress and International Puppet Festival, Perth), a four and half week tour presenting the work of nine national and international puppeteers from the East to the West coast of Australia, a tour that covered 6,500km.