“I’m caught in my chrysalis,” laughs performer Niamh McAllister in the rehearsal room of The Ark, Dublin’s cultural centre for children. That’s because McAllister, performer in the Ark’s new show, The Last Moth, is in fact playing a moth. “Being a young performer and getting to be a young creator, what I have really noticed is that young people want really good stories,” Moonveld-Nkosi says. “And we got up every morning and counted the moths and looked at the species of moths and we did an ecology survey on Sherkin Island,” Jones says. They had had some discussions about whether the moth performer should have aerial abilities or not, but decided against it.

Source: The Irish Times March 01, 2026 10:00 UTC