New Toy Theatre

Our latest product is a Toy Theatre kit for building a Webb Toy Theatre complete with the play “The Brigand’s Son” as published by Mathews. The kit uses full colour cardboard pages, double sided prints to make a replica of the Mathew’s playbook, an Andrews drop curtain and full easy to follow instructions with photographs.

The “printing details” give instructions how to print the pages on card and paper. Please note that they are A3 size, so if you cannot print that big then forward the files to a copy shop with suitable instructions. Note also that the margins need to be set so as to print up to the paper edge.

As always our downloads are copyright but you are free to use them for personal or educational use provided they are not sold commercially.

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New Toy Theatre for the Jubilee!

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We are publishing a new Toy Theatre Stage Front in order to celebrate an amazing 70 years of service by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The theatre is called “Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee Toy Theatre” and is loosely based on the famous proscenium of Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.

You can download the stagefront in 3 sheets here. Please note that it prints on A3 paper.

The theatre will take the traditional 6 by 7 inch Toy Theatre scene size.

Click to access stage-front.pdf

Faust returns

We are adding another free Toy Theatre play to download. It is “Faust” which we published originally as a printed play back in 1978, although less than a hundred copies were ever sold. It is part of the repertoire of Ulrich Chmel who has performed it in venues in various cities in Austria. We hope you enjoy it, here you have both coloured and plain versions ( allowing you to colour it yourself) and also the playbook. We published the directions for performing Toy Theatre plays last year so please refer to that if you are not familiar.

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A new Toy Theatre

In 2020 the only way that you can experience a live theatrical performance with a large cast and lots of changes of scene is if you are lucky enough to have a Toy Theatre in your home. With this in mind we have produced a brand new Toy Theatre, based on traditional designs, which you can down load here. It uses A4 size scenery and can be built using materials many people will already have in their home, so it suits the present time very well.

The “Grand Theatre” also has a new booklet to help you build it. The 33 pages also include lots of special effect techniques that can be used for any Toy Theatre. If you are very clever you can set up your printer to print it as an A5 page size booklet.

STAGE FRONT

HOW TO BUILD THE GRAND THEATRE