Black Hole Theatre comprises an ever evolving group of puppeteers, performers, visual artists, designers, composers and other collaborators. Founded in 1993 in Melbourne, Australia by artists and puppeteers Cliff Dolliver, Paul Newcombe, and Rod Primrose, the Company is committed to cutting edge visual, object and puppet theatre. Black Hole aims to engage, extend and disrupt one’s imagination. The adult work is bold, often comic, dark, and always surprising. No subject is taboo. The work for children is equally bold and surprising, but tuned to a different audience!

While puppetry remains at the heart of every piece, over the years Black Hole has added multi-media, mask, movement and various acting styles to its performance vocabulary. The Company continues to explore and re-draw the boundaries between puppet and puppeteer. It often eschews narrative in a search for other forms and dynamics. The work ranges across devised material, scripts and adaptations. While there is no prescribed Black Hole process, collaboration and experimentation are essential ingredients of every rehearsal. The company performs usually in theatres, but also on the street, in pubs, and shop windows. Black Hole’s productions have included And the Ass Saw the Angel (adapted from the Nick Cave book), Punter, 100 Hours 100 Paintings, Caravan, and most recently Coop. A children’s piece, SealsKin will be developed further in 2009.