The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children and Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival present
Family Season 2008
This year The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children and Ulster Bank Dublin
Theatre Festival team up to present a season of acclaimed productions
for families that will bring you on unforgettable journeys across Europe,
dark forests and even a dusty old attic! Telling stories of a young girl’s
escape from war-torn Germany, to a timid goat’s avoidance of a hungry
wolf, and even a puppet’s head searching for its missing body, this
year’s
Family Season promises adventures that you’ll never forget...
Compagnia Rodisio (Italy) presents
The Wolf and the Goat
| Dates: | Saturday 27 September – Sunday 5 October (except 29 September / 3 October) |
| Time: | 10.15am & 12.15pm, Tuesday – Thursday (Schools)
2pm & 4pm, Saturdays & Sundays (Public) |
| Age Range: | 7+ |
| Class Range: | Second class+ |
| Duration: | 55 minutes |
| Prices: | €6.50 (Schools) / €10 (Public) |
| **price for students, senior citizens, the unwaged, those parenting alone and their accompanying children | |
This story is about a wolf and a goat who meet on a
dark night far away from home...
The two fail to recognise each other and so forget they are usually enemies.
In doing so, they discover they are closer than they could have ever imagined.
But, will they stay true to their usual character or will the goat be
brave and the wolf frightened? Or maybe nothing changes and the wolf will
eat the goat? Or maybe the frightened goat will escape? Like the wolf
and the goat we don’tknow what is going to happen – do you?
Inspired by the Japanese novel One Stormy Night by Yuichi Kimura this
captivating tale won the 2007 Eolo Award for Best Play and is set to keep
you spellbound.
Translated by Richard R. Nybakken.
The Ark, A Cultural
Centre for Children presents
A Staged Reading of The Golden Apple
| Dates: | Saturday 4 October |
| Time: | 6pm |
| Age Range: | 6+ |
| Duration: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
| Prices: | Free |
A staged reading of The Golden Apple by Cecily O’Neill,
based on the play by Lady Gregory.
Directed by Andrea Ainsworth. Music by Nico Brown.
Join us for a rehearsed reading of this thrilling tale of a prince and
his search to find The Golden Apple to cure his dying father, as part
of the In Development programme of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.
On his quest he meets a sickly giant, a deceitful doctor, a magical Connaught
woman, an evil witch, her bad-tempered daughter and a beautiful princess...
The Golden Apple is one of Lady Gregory’s Wonder Plays for children,
and is full of warmth, suspense and humour. Cecily O’Neill, an international
authority on arts education, has written a new version of The GoldenApple
to introduce this classic tale to another generation of young people.
The reading will befollowed by a discussion and reception
with Cecily O’Neill and cast members.
Special thanks to Dr. Nancy Swortzell, who has made a generous donation
to support the reading of The Golden Apple.
Carte Blanche
(Denmark) presents
The Attic Under the Sky
| Dates: | Tuesday 7 – Thursday 9 October |
| Time: | 10.15am & 12.15pm, Tuesday & Wednesday
/ 10.15am, Thursday (Schools) |
| Age Range: | 6+ |
| Class Range: | First class+ |
| Duration: | 1 hour |
| Prices: | €6.50 (Schools) / €10 (Public) |
| **price for students, senior citizens, the unwaged, those parenting alone and their accompanying children | |
When entering this tiny attic you will discover a place full of dusty old boxes, broken toys and what may look like junk and rubbish, but to onelittle girl this Attic Under the Sky is a very special place! Many strange things are hidden in this attic – the most important of which is her only friend, a puppet in search of a fitting body. Together they discover past memories, stories and dreams of other lives and other places hidden inside the broken, torn and worn-out toys. This is a performance for people who enjoy beautiful images, exquisite music and are fond of memories...
NIE (Norway /
UK / Czech Republic) presents
The End of Everything Ever
| Dates: | Friday 10–Sunday 12 October |
| Time: | 12.15pm, Friday (Schools) |
| Age Range: | 10+ |
| Class Range: | Fifth class+ |
| Duration: | Fifth class+ |
| Prices: | €6.50 (Schools) / €10 (Public) |
| **price for students, senior citizens, the unwaged, those parenting alone and their accompanying children | |
Agata is 6 years old, and she is going to the railway station with her father. He smiles at her and seems very happy, but Agata has the strange feeling that she will never see him again. The train journey is long and tiring and Agata is getting very hungry. Without thinking, she begins to chew on the paper name-tag around her neck and, with every clickety-click of the train wheels on the rails, she very slowly obliterates her name and address. She becomes a child with no family, no name and no way to find her home again – so who is she then?
Accompanied by live music, The End of Everything Ever draws on true stories and accounts of the Kindertransport – 10,000 Jewish children who were saved by their parents’ decision to send them out of Nazi occupied Europe. The award-winning NIE shine a light into some of our continent’s darkest history and emerge with a story of survival, love and hope.
