SVALEGANGENS DUKKETEATER is the only one of its kind: A toy theatre affiliated to a professional theatre. It was founded in 1987 by director and toy theatre performer Per Brink Abrahamsen. Its declared aim has been to establish the toy theatre as a viable public theatre not only for children but also for adults. Therefore the repertoire has consisted of not only classics like “Round the World in 80 Days” and “Aladdin”, children's plays like “The Nightingale”, “The Spy from Elsinore” (“Spionen fra Kronborg”) and the annual Christmas play “Christmas at the Vicarage” (“Jul i Nøddebo Præstegård”); new plays have been adapted and new scenery devised with the grown up audience in mind: “Ehrengard” from Tania Blixen (Isak Dinesen), “Pity for the Children of Vaden Town” from Peter Høeg, and the adaptation of the entire “Ring” by Richard Wagner. The latest venture is a collaboration with H. M. Queen Margrethe about another Blixen adaptation: "The Cabin Boy's Story" with sets and characters by the Queen.
SVALEGANGENS DUKKETEATER is based at Svalegangen in Aarhus, but has also performed all over Denmark, and at numerous festivals in Germany, Vyborg (Russia) and Sweden.