This is an archived post – you can see our current card cutouts in the shop. This evening we have a special offer on a set of 4 Paper Cutout Kits which are no longer in print. We have two Peter Markey designs, The Mechanical Dragon and the Olympic Runner, Keith Newstead’s Ski-ing Sheep, and […]
Woman in an Armchair
A new one-off piece by Paul Spooner. With echoes of Picasso’s cubist painting ‘Seated Bather by the Sea’ (1930) Spooner’s chair has 8 fingers which move like a wonky Peter Markey Wave Machine. The piece is operated by batteries (included) and the fingers start moving when the knob on the drawer is turned. Oak and […]
Simon Tait’s Mews No.15
Beastly time You know about Chronophage, the weird and wonderful clock/creature created by John Taylor that has adorned the corner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, for the last couple of years, but you don’t know its younger brother yet. These monsters are multiplying. Chronophage means ‘eater of time’, telling of the birth of time, and […]
Day 29 – More Markey Cutouts
We have four more new Peter Markey cutouts for you – they make fantastic last minute stocking fillers or party gifts. Tiger Paper’s Miniature Golf Ever want to play golf, but dread all that walkng around? If so, here’s your answer. This unique mini-Miniature Golf Game uses the special ‘Finger Flicker’ process for teeing. All […]
Simon Tait’s Mews No.6
Wanna tell you a story… If you’ve been following the Magic of Cabaret day by day you’ve got some idea of the range of what CMT does, and elsewhere on the site there’s a bit of history, but I think you ought to know the real story about how the whole thing came about, and […]
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is a collection of contemporary automata founded in 1982. It has permanent and temporary exhibitions all over the world. We aim to entertain and inspire visitors, makers and collectors.