Making Toy Theatres
by Brian Marshall

Welcome to my Homepage. You will find instructions, together with plans which you can cut out, to make your own working model theatre.

An added bonus is that I have also included scenery, characters, and a choice of play scripts, enabling you to give your first performance in no time at all. The theatre is printed out on A4 sheets on the thickest card that your printer can handle. My Epson ink jet can cope with 160gms. However a more substantial result can be had by glueing another piece of the card to the back.

My latest update (February 2002) includes a new design for a theatre. The Fantasy Theatre needs no glueing or folding to construct; just several flat, cut out sheets with slots, that can be assembled or dismantled in seconds. It can use the same characters and scenery as the other theatres. The best result is probably achieved by printing the designs on paper (the decorated front on special ink jet paper to bring out the colours) and then sticking them on to a heavyweight mounting board. However I am experimenting with sheets cut from old cardboard boxes to save expense and help the environment.

I would be interested to know how you get on e-mail address.

The following is a list of other websites on toy theatres http://members1.chello.nl/~h.oudekerk01/contents.html
http://datasync.com/~g_sndbrg

Now turn to my WORKPAGE where I have put all the links for connecting to the plans, scripts, and scenery etc. for building one of the toy theatres.