Marionettes, mime artists and masked characters from award-winning French, German and American theatre companies will captivate Galway children from Tuesday to Sunday next. Now in its fourth year, the Baboro International Arts Festival for Children bears fresh, tastier fruit each year. Check out Short Stories, a wonderful blend of mime and puppetry from the Peruvian Teatro Hugo and Ines. Also, don't miss American Michael Cooper's one-man madcap show, Masked Marvels and Wonder Tales. Can You Whistle Johanna? from German theatre company, Puppentheater der Stadt Halle, and Topsy-Turvy World from French company, Theatre Sans Toit, also promise to excite and enthrall all. Meanwhile, Irish productions are well represented with Harold and Sophie, a piece specially commissioned for Baboro from the Outreach/Education Programme of the Abbey Theatre.
And, Little Red Kettle bring its award-winning new show, The Four Euclids of Squid and the Festival of Imagination & Wild Fancy. And that's just for starters.
Coincidentally, there's another children's festival taking place next week in the West. The Louisburgh Children's Arts Festival has workshops, music and theatre and storytelling taking place in various venues around the town from Monday for six days.
