Cork Midsummer Festival - A Festival of local, national & international arts!

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Welcome to the Cork Midsummer Festival 2007
Tuesday 19th - Saturday 30th June 2007.

The Seed Carriers
STEPHEN MOTTRAM’S ANIMATA PRESENTS: The Seed Carriers
Date: Monday 25th & Tuesday 26th June @ 8pm
Tickets: €15 / €10
Venue: Half Moon Theatre
NOTE: Not suitable for children

Imagine a race of small creatures that look remarkably like humans, but are really more like insects or plants. They are The Seed Carriers. Valuable and vulnerable, they are farmed for the seeds carried within them. They must develop their cunning to survive the ruthless social system in which they live. So with the aid of fabulous machines, they disguise themselves as birds, fish and insects. In conspiracy with Glyn Perrin’s music, these puppets draw their audience into a beautiful, colourful world which becomes horrific and then haunting as our understanding of it starts to dawn. The Seed Carriers has become a classic work of animation theatre, winning several international theatre awards during tours in 18 countries.

“Mottram’s art is formidable, like his imagination. I have never before seen the eeriness of marionettes combined so insistently with dread” The Times

“Brilliant… Definitely not to be missed” The Guardian

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