Civic Theatre, June 2025

This piece in development is based around a puppet that grows in response to the joy it is surrounded by. It is an outdoor promenade piece featuring live music and brand-new composition by Denis Clohessy, and a puppet designed and built by Niamh Lawlor.

Performed as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2025

Wexford libraries, summer 2025

In partnership with Wexford County Council, we will present Irish-language audio installations and workshops in five libraries, as well as commissioning, producing and premiering a new Irish-language audio story written by Alison Ní Mháirtín.

This installation has also been presented at Roscommon Arts Centre (Oct 2024) and Riverbank Arts Centre (autumn 2023).

Touring rural schools, spring 2025

Brigid and Maggie have been travelling the world with the Museum of Believing. They uncover, excavate and preserve objects and their incredible stories, from a rhino horn to a fairy door. Now they have arrived in your small rural primary school, because they have heard that here is where they can finally find... the key to all knowledge.

National touring, 2022-present

In partnership with Púca Puppets, we tour this very special piece for very special audiences. Its interactive multisensory style, combined with puppetry and live music, make it perfect for babies and toddlers, children with autism, or children with complex needs. It has toured libraries, special schools, theatres and more, and is available for future touring.

Hawk’s Well Theatre and Sligo schools, Feb 2025

Benji has lost the key to his imagination. Where could it be? Children with autism and their grown ups are invited to enter and journey through a sensory world of teddies, marshmallows and marbles.
This piece is being created with and for children with autism in partnership with the Hawk’s Well Theatre.

National Opera House, April 2024

This new play by Alison Ní Mháirtín brims with wonder and play.  Irish language, music and mythology combine with puppetry, opera and some very silly socks to create an epic journey from a young girl’s own house to the National Opera House. goes here

Westport Town Hall, Feb 2023

This play by Mary-Lou McCarthy for children aged 7-10 was created in collaboration with a group of local people who generously shared their stories of Wesport. Artist Nathalie El Baba and Mary-Lou also worked with local schools to create some of the set and props for the show, which explored Westport’s colourful past.

Podcast, 2020-2023

Inspired by the first Covid lockdown, we commissioned and produced four series of audio stories for ages 6-10. Languages include Irish, Polish, Arabic, and Romanian, and the stories range from stargazing to flights of imagination to lost dogs to aliens, and much much more.

Dublin and Melbourne Fringes, 2022

An interactive Zoom mystery, Whodunnit? gives young people the chance to play a character, interrogate other suspects, and solve a crime! Created with Mollie Molumby with original composition and sound design by Lara Gallagher.

Riverbank Arts Centre, 2020-2022

Originally a play by Sian Ní Mhuirí which previewed at Riverbank the day the first Covid lockdown was announced, the Lonsdale Project was later turned into a film to be shown alongside workshops about women in science and crystallography.