Exploring storytelling through Puppetry & Textiles  
in a more-than-human world.

Bridging Puppetry, Technology, & Nature

Theatredu1k

Founded by Sabrina Recoules Quang in 2010 and based in London, Theatredu1k explores storytelling at the intersection of puppetry, textile craft, responsive materials, and sustainable technology.

Through installations, shadow theatre, and poetic experimentation, Theatredu1k creates material-led, emotionally resonant performances that respond to natural forces and more-than-human voices. The work blends traditional techniques with computational tools, crafting spaces where narratives emerge through the sensory interplay of bodies, fibres, code, and environment.

Sabrina Recoules Quang

My research explores the role of material agency in performance-making, drawing from thinkers such as Donna Haraway and Ron Wakkary. I am interested in how craft, technology, and ecological systems can co-exist in embodied and poetic ways. Trained in puppetry, movement, and computational arts, I hold a PhD in Textiles from the Royal College of Art, where I developed a method for storytelling through material interference.

At the heart of my practice is the desire to create space for different ways of sensing, thinking, and relating. I do not seek to resolve the questions I explore. Instead, I offer perspectives—opening ground for reflection, dialogue, and shared imagination. Through material storytelling and responsive systems, my work engages with complexity, care, and co-existence. It touches on themes such as migration, sustainability, and diversity without reducing them to fixed narratives.

I collaborate with artists, researchers, and designers who are interested in soft systems, more-than-human performance, and material storytelling. Currently, my focus is on learning improvisational weaving techniques, integrating sensors into woven structures, and developing performative systems that interact with both natural and technological forces. This evolving direction supports a shift toward responsive stages and textile characters that engage with their environment, offering a quieter, relational alternative to dominant approaches in robotic theatre and interaction design.