Text updated 30 September 2011
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.You can get in touch by phone 0121 242 0400 or by email info@moby-duck.co.ukSince 1999, Moby Duck has made fifteen brand-new shows and toured them nationally and internationally.Education: Moby Duck works with children and adults, sometimes through stand-alone projects and sometimes through programmes specifically constructed to complement touring shows. The company is committed to sharing its members’ skills through: • workshops and residencies in nurseries, schools and colleges
• training younger artists to the point where they can perform professionally alongside more experienced company members
• exchange of skills and approaches with teachers and artists both nationally and internationally• writing and storytelling
• dance, mime and movement
• eastern and western music
• international cookery
• flying object design
• puppet and mask making and operation
• living history
• 2D and 3D visual arts
• selected electronic mediaArtists: Moby Duck consists of a pool of artists, most of whom perform with the company — though others with special skills are co-opted for individual projects. All are experienced workshop leaders (most with over 20 years’ experience); and many also have had mainstream teaching experience at earlier stages of their careers.
Now on tour: BONG SOON - A WINDY TALE.
By Peter Wynne Willson with Ko Sun Duck. A thunderously naughty tale for family audiences aged 4+.
You can hear Bong Soon coming for miles. She toots and hoots, biffs and boffs, and pumps and trumps her way round the village - waking small children - frightening goats - even blowing pheasants out of trees. “All we want,” say the villagers, “is some peace.”
She tries to keep things quiet - she really does: for three whole years, not a peep or a poop or a parp. Then it all gets too much - she can’t hold it any longer. The back quack that follows is beyond anyone’s wildest expectations - and that’s where the story starts.
Storytelling, live music, puppetry and wild, exuberant Korean humour swirl together into a heady, exhilarating performance style - it’ll blow your audiences away!
Click here (link to youtube) for a taste of the Korean version.The Korean language version of our collaboration with Sadari Theatre is now playing to sold-out houses at the Namsan Theatre in Seoul. If you happen to be passing through, you can click on www.sejongpac.or.kr for further details. TOUR SCHEDULE Sat 10, Sep, Lord Mayor's Thames Festival,Time 1600, SE1 7PB, 0207 004 2604
Sun 11 Sep, Lord Mayor's Thames Festival,Time 1600 SE1 7PB 0207 004 2604
Sat 17 Sep, St Donats Arts Centre,Time 1400 CF61 1WF, 0784 142 1075
Sat 24 Sep, Lawrence Batley Theatre,Time 1100 HD1 2SP, 01484 430528
Lawrence Batley Theatre,Time 1400 HD1 2SP, 01484 430528
Wed 28 Sep, St Mary's Primary School,Time 1800 B29 6NU, 0121 675 1729
Thur 6 Oct, Short Wood Primary School,Time 1100 TF1 2JA, 01952 387360
,Time 1330 TF1 2JA, 01952 387360
Sat 8 Oct, Goostrey Village Hall,Time 1600 CW4 8PE, 01477 544467
Tue 11 Oct, St Albans PrimarySchool,Time 1000 B14 5AL, 07730 588820
Sat 15 Oct, Upton Village Hall,Time 1400 CH2 1HX, 01244, 380068
w/b 24 Oct, Newhampton Arts Centre,Time TBC, WV1 4AN, 01902 572 090
Thur 27 Oct, Chesterfield Library,Time 1400, S40 1QN, 01629 533 400
Sun 30 Oct, Salisbury Arts Centre,Time 1100,, SP1 3UT, 01722 321744
Thur 3 Nov, Bishops Wood Centre,Time 1400 DY122PJ, 01299 250513
Fri 4 Nov, Filongley Village Hall,Time 1630, CV7 8EQ, 01676 540072
Sat 5 Nov, John of Rolleston Schoo,Time 1430, ,DE13 9DN, 01283 815650
Sun 6 Nov, Burton Institute,Time 1400, DE4 2DQ 01629 650090
Sat 19 Nov, Gladstone Village Hall,Time TBA, CH64 5TH, 0151 336 5613
Sat 26 Nov, The Hawth, Crawley,Time 1100, RH10 6YZ, 01293 553636