Moonfish Theatre Company is a new, Galway-based, international theatre company, committed to the production of high-quality, accessible theatre on the national and international stage.
Moonfish is currently working on three different projects:
Noah's Ark
As part of the Galway Early Music Festival, Moonfish is putting its own spin on the Medieval mystery play Noah's Ark. Noah has to build him an ark and gather all the animals into it. The only trouble is, Mrs. Noah doesn't want to come! All the audience will have the opportunity to join in on this musical, madcap retelling of an ancient story.
Noah's Ark will be performed at The Kings Head Pub, Galway, on May 17th at 11am
Bonny & Read
Following the success of its run at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007, Moonfish is taking its highly acclaimed 'Bonny & Read' on a tour of Ireland this summer. Venues and dates to be finalised.
Bonny & Read tells the true-life tale of two female pirates who sailed the Caribbean Seas in the 1700s, charting the amazing adventures of the notorious female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, from childhood to the gallows - and beyond! Two actors playing multiple characters are accompanied by buccaneer musicians in a rip-roaring, timber-shivering, sea-shanty-soaked theatre production.
Ibsen
Enemy of the People, one of Ibsen's most renowned plays, was first performed in Irish at An Taidhbhearc in Galway in 1941. Namhaid don Phobal deals with the balance between social responibility and political and economic stability. Set in a small coastal tourist town, it tell the story of Dr. Stockmann, who makes a terrible discovery concerning the quality of the town's water supply. The resulting chain of events highlights the constant struggle between truth, politics and money that shapes the societies we live in.
Moonfish, supported by Uadaras na Gaeltachta and Acadamh na hOllscolaiochta, Gaillimh, will revive the Irish transation of this timeless classic in a production that will be performed in Ireland and in Norway, heralding Irish as a recognised European language on the international stage.
Venues and dates to be finalised.
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