Wood Wide Web is a fun, informative and interactive outdoor performance/workshop looking at the science behind how trees communicate through an underground network and what this teaches us about cooperation and mutual support.
Brigid's CROSS is an informative and poetic comedy piece. It explores Brigid as both saint and goddess in her many aspects: Brigid of the Forge, Brigid the Poet and Brigid of the Hearth. The show is developed largely from the research of Mary Condren.
'Planted' written by Sorcha Shanahan. This play is set in the early years of the Plantation of Ulster. 4 women from different backgrounds navigate the huge changes this unprecedented move has brought to their lives. We hear the perspectives of 'Irish Earl's Daughter', 'Irish Woman', 'Scottish Minister's Wife' and 'London Lady'. All scenes are played out under a hawthorn tree.
CSI (Curious Story Investigators) Rita Book and Goodie Reed have stumbled upon a long lost mystery bag and need help in their investigation to discover who owns it and how it ended up so lost for so long. An interactive performance of storytelling and craic unlike anything you will have seen before!
Commissioned by Children in Crossfire, 2020. Full video available on our YouTube channel.
Written and performed by participants of our 'You, Me & Patriarchy' 12 week programme, 2020-21 (lyrics and music by Ruth McCartney and Siobhan Shiels)
This was one of our first outings as MakeyUppers (In fact we came up with the name 'MakeyUppers' on the way back home from this very gig!) Cinderella and The Little Mermaid.
An extract from one of our sketches for a conference on Patriarchy.
6 part web series available on our YouTube channel.
Also available for live stage shows and interactive story/play sessions
Featuring moments from our performances at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Waterside Theatre, Alley Theatre, Strabane and Echo Echo Dance Theatre.
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