Monkeyshine:() n. Slang. A mischievous or playful trick; a prank.
Monkeyshine Theatre
The Company
Monkeyshine creates theatre experiences for children of all ages. We aim to create original and innovative theatre by telling stories and celebrating humanity, with honesty, intelligence, imagination, wit and beauty.
As a company, we push the boundaries of our art and our business and strive to challenge and stimulate both our audience and ourselves. We feel that every child has a cultural entitlement and that it is of utmost importance to provide children and young people with best possible arts and culture available.
It is our goal to create work that will appeal to children and young people with out patronising or exploiting them. We hope that our work will entertain and engage the sustained interest of our young audience and offer them a stimulating and satisfying aesthetic, imaginative, intellectual and emotional experience that goes beyond the banal and the obvious and develops and challenges their inner life, sense of self or understanding of and engagement with the world.
The company, led by artistic director and founder member Kareen Pennefather, works as an ever-changing ensemble of performers, musicians, artists and technicians. We are passionate about our multi-disciplined creative process and as a team we are continually sharing and developing skills.
Established in 1999 Monkeyshine Theatre has toured throughout Ireland both North and South, as well as to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Glastonbury Music Festival and above the arctic circle to the Stamsund international theatre festival in Norway
We tour our work nationally and internationally to theatre spaces as well as more unconventional venues.
‘Poignant, brilliant, and at times oddly uplifting theatre’
The Stage
‘...Excellent physical theatre with a comic touch’
Fringe Report
‘Child’s play at its best’
****The Irish Times
‘One of Irelands
most exciting children’s theatre companies’
Director, Pavilion Theatre
“Better than all my cartoons!”
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