Select Past Projects
String Symphony
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 2020-Ongoing
String Symphony is a large-scale, interactive performance installation that uses puppetry to explore connection, community, and collaboration.
Hand-woven using more than one kilometer of rope, the giant illuminated puppet is waiting to be brought to life. This mesmerizing performance invites twelve audience members to become puppeteers. As the participants manipulate the giant interactive puppet, onlookers marvel at the beauty of this magnificent creation.
Rules of Summer
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 2021
A performance like no other, Rules of Summer is an immersive, interactive, and multi-sensory puppetry work following the journey of two boys who experience the emotional journey of life, the unwritten rules of friendship, and a list of mysterious rules…
See the entire theatre space come to life and experience a sensory world of sight, taste, smell, sound and touch. What rule will you break? Will you accept or reject a tasty treat? And what consequences will await?
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"Directed by Philip Mitchell, the trio of puppeteers, ...David Vikman,... play as much a key role as the puppets themselves; indeed, rather than attempting to hide the human element they steal the show..." - Lydia Edwards, Seesaw Mag
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"My favourite part is when the two boys are playing tennis, but the tennis robot [David Vikman] is making the balls go into the audience." - Junior Review Sascha Bott, age 10, Seesaw Mag
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Photo: Jessica Wyld Photography
D*ck Pics in The Garden of Eden
The Last Great Hunt, 2022
D*CK PICS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN is a playful, weird, and comedic take on the subsequent lives of Adam and Eve following their infamous exile, now parenting their troubled children in the Garden of Suburbia.
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"David Vikman, however, in his various ensemble roles is a show stealer. At first sight, he is an impressive presence on stage and funny until his last." - Mitch Whelan, Magazine 6000
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"Vikman’s cameo as the young, priapic Adam is a hoot" - Seesaw Mag
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Photo: Daniel J. Grant
Rebirth
APK productions, 2022
In a country fighting for independence, a white man is trapped in a black family’s house without their knowledge. As time passes, strange sounds and a stubborn stench fill the house. The family wonders if they are living with ghosts, but something more sinister is at play.
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"These creatives are ones to watch." - Joshua Hall Haines, Out In Perth
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Photo: Russell Ludt
Pseudo-archaeologists believe that Vikings made it to Australia
Laura Liu Makes Things, 2024
863. Aarné Järnhand crosses oceans on a (completely made-up) voyage.
1976. ABBA gets broadcast through Bandstand on Channel 9
2018. David Vikman (that’s me!) arrives at Perth International Airport.
Meanwhile: A moose feeds off the grassy plains of Lapland, Sweden.
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"David had the audience completely under his control for each second of this show...
David switched from super silly skits referencing things like Abba, Ikea, and the chefs in the Muppets to serious monologues of Viking narratives written with the flair of a seasoned storyteller."
- Jay Darroch, Magazine 6000
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Photo: Sam Bruce
