Red Racing Hood roars into the theatre! Catch it before it races away!

With everything she knows and loves at stake in the small town of Grinalong, Red must convince her Gran to help her win a car race and overcome her own fears with the aim of staying in the town. The story is reimagined from the famous fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. It is inventively brought to life using slot car racing, with cameras situated around the circuit magnifying the action live on screen, putting the audience in the driving seat as they follow Red on her adventure.

Celebrate the Christmas season with Howard Blake’s The Snowman & The Bear! Heartwarming and magical, these two animated films are based on the books by Raymond Briggs. Experience them on the big screen with live orchestral accompaniment and singing. The perfect Christmas treat for all the family!

“The standard of theatre for young audiences has never been better.” The Sunday Business Post, Ireland

Strange Feathers is an aerial dance performance. Two birds hatch into the world, on a journey of discovery, as they hear the sounds of how to fly. Mixing aerial circus, dance, live music, soft colourful lighting, and soothing sensory sounds, these friendly birds explore their world of feathers. Co-produced by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre, Riverbank Arts Centre (Ireland) and Bird & Bat (Iceland) , Strange Feathers enjoyed nationwide tours of Ireland with sold-out shows and a Nordic tour funded by the Cultural Ireland.

What The Moon Saw presents a dance and circus performance for little ones and their families, which is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and artfully re-imagined by 2Faced Dance Company. Alone in the world and scared of the dark, Jack opened his bedroom curtains to find a familiar friendly face, ｔhe Moon. The Moon taught Jack to be brave with his treasured experience and brought Jack travel around the world…

Presented as a semi-staged musical of existing Christmas carols, new compositions and re-arranged songs, “The Happy Prince and The Other Wiseman” weaves the story of Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” and Henry Van Dyke’s “The Other Wiseman” together, with the respective protagonists, the Happy Prince and the Magus Artaban, echoing each other’s selfless sacrifices in their compassionate acts towards the needy. The show uses a form of storytelling in which the Happy Prince’s story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning with the angels bringing the broken lead heart of the Happy Prince and the dead body of the swallow as the most precious things on earth to God), and Artaban the Wiseman’s story told in chronological order (starting when the Magus sees the signs in the sky and starts searching for the new-born Messiah). The characters of the two stories do not directly interact but are linked by the same jewels that are given up in their generous acts.

Loo is a hot, dry wind from Asia that comes alive in summer afternoons and the show poetically explores the activities of this wind: moving the desert sand dunes, drying up wetlands, seas and oceans, leaving ships paralysed in the sand.

Performer and audience are seated on the boat, listening to inspiring music, observing buried objects and stunning visual effects to enjoy a unique sensorial experience about desertification.

Programme:
– Handel’s Messiah
– Messiah Sing-in