Welcome to Moonfish Theatre Company's website. 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's most recent productions include Aucassin et Nicolette, which was commissioned by The Galway Early Music Festival in May 2009 and toured to Lucan's Children's Festival in June. In March 2009 Moonfish brought a hugely successful Irish-language adaptation of Ibsen's Enemy of the People (Namhaid Don Phobal) to the stage. Namhaid Don Phobal played at the Black Box Theatre, Galway, and the Axis Theatre, Ballymun to an overall audience of over 600. The production marked one of the first times English surtitles have been used in an Irish language production, making it accessible to a wide audience of Gaeilgeoirí and non-Gaeilgeoirí alike. '..Brendan Conroy, as Stockman, rises magnificently in Act IV to the poetry of denunciation - of the “worst enemy of truth and freedom... the damned liberal majority!” - with sustained force, assertive and passionate, a Lear of the fjords...' ITM June '09

The Secret Garden Moonfish is delighted to be bringing its complete team of artists from Ireland, Scotland and Wales together for the first time since Bonny & Read for this exciting and magical production. The Secret Garden will be performed as part of the Galway Theatre Festival in October 2009. 'It looks like it's been buried a long time. Perhaps it has been buried for ten years. Perhaps it is the key to the garden!' When Mary Lennox parents die she is sent from India to live with her reclusive uncle in his great, empty mansion on the Moors. Lonely and withdrawn, Mary finds solace in the strange tales told by the locals, of a Secret Garden that was locked away ten years ago and left to run wild. Then one day, she finds a key buried deep in the earth - a key that will change her life forever. Moonfish's production The Secret Garden is adapted from the classic children's book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It weaves a thrilling, magical tale of hope and wonder that draws its audience into the mysterious world of hidden places, where anything is possible.

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Namhaid Don Phobal A coastal town ... an infected water supply ... a local election looming ... In March 2009 Moonfish Theatre will team with An Taibhdhearc, the National Theatre for the Irish Language, to present a co-production of Henrik Ibsen's powerful and resonant play 'Namhaid don Phobal' (An Enemy of the People). In a small coastal town the local doctor uncovers a secret that jeopardises the town's economy.  It could also threaten his own brother's plans for re-election as Mayor.  When the doctor insists that he must broadcast his findings, he faces a terrible choice ... Truth versus profit, ideals versus practice, and brother versus brother in this modern, explosive interpretation of a classic European play.