For more than a decade they’ve delighted crowds at some of the world’s biggest festivals and events – a mob of spring-heeled roo men and women, bounding, scratching and laughing their way through the streets.

But during the recent ANZAC Day long weekend the much-loved street performance piece, known as Roo’d, suffered an unexpected and most unwanted cull.

The performers from Roo'd.

Two of the group's precious, hand-made roo costumes were stolen from outside the south-west Sydney home of the group’s founder, Paul Jones.

Jones, the director of the street theatre group Icarus, left his home on Saturday morning to take the show to Lithgow for a performance at IronFest. When he stepped outside he found that the suits, which he had wrapped and tied to his roof of his car the night before, were gone.