Designing Set and Puppets for Gulliver's Travels

15 Dec (11:00), 16 Dec (19:00), 17 Dec (11:00), 18 Dec (15:00)

at Mermaid Arts Centre

This Christmas be the first to witness this brand new adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s fantastical adventure Gulliver’s Travels. It is also the first co-production of Wonderland Productions and Mermaid Arts Centre. Specially made for a family audience, six actor-musicians will use original song, puppetry, dance and video projection to bring the amazing voyages of Lemeul Gulliver to life. Music, fun and adventure awaits you as Gulliver meets the tiny people of Liliput, the great giants of Brobdingnag and the savage yahoos and talking horses of Houyhnhnm land. Adapted and directed by Artistic Director Alice Coghlan in collaboration with musician, composer and performer

Puppet Portal

Emma starts back as Limericks puppeteer in residence as part of the Puppet Portals second residence which starts up next wednesday with 5 puppeteers across the country working for 10 weeks. The project aims to help counter the isolation that children can feel when they are hospitalized by connecting them to a wider community in a shared creative conversation. It aims to facilitate children in accessing their own creativity and using this resource to help them better cope with being in hospital. The project offers artists the chance to share ideas and to work as part of a team as well as developing their own practice in a fascinating and challenging setting.

SOH gets 4 stars in Irish Theatre Magazine and Reviewed in irish Times

"A visually intriguing set designed by Emma Fisher provides physical representations of the onstage themes. Coloured ribbons extend long and plentifully from an old typewriter. Flashes of red, yellow and purple as they move, changing the dimensions of the space. All elements coalesce in this intimate glance at the workings of our human hearts. " Irish Theatre Magazine http://www.irishtheatremagazine.ie/Reviews/Dublin-Fringe.aspx?review=13

"A visually engaging study of revenge" Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/0914/1224278818669.html