MOBY DUCK performs stimulating, challenging and accessible stories for young people and adults that celebrate the common ground between cultures.
This, combined with original live eastern/western music, South Asian dance and mime, breathtaking animated projections and charismatic mask/puppets, creates a rich and exhilarating (and sometimes scary!) experience too rarely seen in theatres. The result is accessible and celebratory performances, appealing to all.
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EDUCATION
Moby Duck shares its skills through
workshops and residencies in nurseries, schools and colleges.
We tailor education projects to schools’ and colleges’ individual needs. Read here for more information.
Now Touring! It will blow you away!
BONG SOON - A WINDY TALE
This brand new collaboration with Sadari Theatre, Korea’s best-know children’s company, is a new development for Moby Duck.
Two writers, one from each company, have turned Break Wind Woman, one of Korea’s naughtiest and best-loved tales, into two plays, one in each country’s language.
The Korean version is playing to sold-out houses in Seoul, and features what’s probably the world’s longest stage poot - and the English one, touring the UK from September, is just as wild! For more information and the tour schedule go to SEE
"BONG SOON - A WINDY TALE is a mixture of traditional, cross cultural story-telling and an enjoyable, rumbustious anarchy. Young children watch with delight as this traditional Korean folk tale unfolds to it’s climax - the longest stage fart ever produced. Oh it’s so naughty . . . but nice.
MOBY DUCK’s theatrical story-telling style suits the young audience’s perfectly as the story unfolds. Bong Soon is a lovely young woman who has a windy problem. Her mother has difficulty finding her a husband, and when a great chance comes along she gives her daughter three rules of a happy marriage. Bong Soon holds in her explosive nature until she can’t hold it any longer - the release is cataclysmic.
For the company of three performers (two British and one Korean) this is high energy acting. And they take on their task with vigour, humour and huge commitment. There is wit in the production aspect too as pears are blown from trees and boats cross oceans; to say nothing of the matrimonial ‘des res’ being blown away.
But as an adult watching A WINDY TALE, the greatest delight is we know the children know it’s naughty and that, for once in their lives, they’ve got one over on the adults.
‘So you’re an actor. What are you playing at the moment then?’‘The longest stage fart in history.’ Hmmm, good for the CV."
