We’re excited to announce that Smethwick Puppetry Festival is back in 2025, and it’s going to be even bigger and better than last year!

We are thrilled to announce that our new production, ‘Wild’, will be touring nationally in Autumn 2025. This captivating show weaves together stories from over 70 people to explore what ‘Wild’ means to us - in the natural world, in our towns and cities, and within ourselves.

The Autumn 2024 tour of ‘Wild’ is over - and what a brillant tour it’s been!

Wild begins its tour across the Black Country today. Our first show is tonight at 7:30pm at Brierley Hill Civic Hall.

Black Country Touring worked together with Bearwood Community Hub, Borough of Sanctuary Sandwell, The Space and poet Bohdan Piasecki to create four short films that challenge the negative narrative around migration and foster empathy by sharing authentic stories from local sanctuary seekers who have built new lives in Sandwell.

The results are four short films and four beautiful poems.

Meet our creative team for our new production, Wild!

We are thrilled to announce our new theatre production, 'Wild'!

It’s 1958 in a drop forge in Oldbury. A wild cat strike is in progress. A faulty machine has injured a worker and it has brought the factory to a halt. The cleaner is looking for the resulting mess to clear up and an irate businessman turns up looking for his missing consignment of hammers. There’s more going on here than meets the eye…

We are thrilled to announce that Black Country Touring and our partners Spectra and The Parakeet have been awarded £73,569 from the Inclusive Communities Fund, which is managed by the Heart of England Community Foundation!