The Moon and Sixpence Puppet Theatre is a marionette (string puppet) theatre, specialising in performances for mainstream primary schools. This kind of puppetry is more complex than glove or rod puppets and, because the puppeteers operate behind and above the marionettes, it requires a much bigger fit-up (staging).
Unusually for marionette theatres, Moon and Sixpence productions are performed live – allowing for some localisation, personalisation and improvisation within the performances.
Because of the complexity of marionette productions, they tend not to tour. The Moon and Sixpence Puppet Theatre was originally devised as a travelling company and continues that tradition today, principally for primary schools in Leinster.
Primary
School
Performances
The Moon & Sixpence specialises in mainstream primary school performances and provide very different types of performance for junior and senior classes. Click here to ask about having Ireland’s travelling marionette theatre visit your Primary School?
Libraries &
Arts Festivals
While we specialise in primary school performances, we provide some performances in libraries. We take delight in linking the magic and adventure of our performances with the magic and adventure to be found in the adjacent books and encourage children to do so.
Other Events
While special education pupils sometimes attend our primary school performances, what we provide doesn’t always suit them. As such, we don’t feel qualified or suitable to perform at non-mainstream or special education schools.
Unfortunately, the nature and scale of what we provide is not suitable for creches. For similar reasons, we don’t perform at birthday parties or similar events.