The Fantastic Life
of Minnie Rubinski

Minnie Rubinski, now in her eighties and living in a care home, looks back on her fantastic life. But what is real and what is fantasy – and does it really matter?

The Fantastic Life of Minnie Rubinski is installation theatre. Audiences enter a giant brain, hear Minnie’s fragmented thoughts and follow pulsing synapses to where her memories are stored.

Her recollections from childhood to the present day are recounted through filmed vignettes with characters played by a cast of beautifully carved marionettes, placed in perfectly detailed period sets, inviting audience members to piece together her remarkable life story.

Created by a team of puppeteers, filmmakers, set designers and prop masters, the production is inspired by creative director Kim Bergsagel’s experience of her mother’s life. Adapted from fragments of phone calls and family anecdotes, the story is funny, sad and at times nonsensical.


Please note

Six audience members (maximum) enter the production at a time, staggered every 30 minutes. Please arrive for the time shown on your ticket and allow at least 45 - 60 minutes to experience the production at your own pace.

Recommended for Ages 14+

The story is told through marionettes and without dialogue.

"...it’s perhaps the rich detail of that real-life origin that makes the Fantastic Life Of Minnie Rubinski such an outstanding piece of work; full of love for an astonishing woman, and profound recognition of all that this generation of elders have known and been, in their long lifetimes."
-   The Scotsman

"A journalist, mother, gallery owner, wife, writer, child, and saviour of the orld from giant reptiles – there’s a lot to take in during The Fantastic Life of Minnie Rubinski, which translates the words and thoughts of one woman’s life, now living with dementia, and turn these glinting pieces of their personality into a scale-filmed legacy, utilising puppetry to craft an often surreal, though occasional mundane and domestic, world for audiences to walk-through"
-   Corr Blimey

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Please select your arrival time below and allow 45-60 minutes to experience the production at your own pace. Ignore mention of 'doors open' time on your tickets, this event is not a seated production.


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