Páistí an Fhiáintais Childern of the Wildern, was an Irish language play I wrote with ten children as my muses. It was the culmination of two semesters of weekly workshops in drámdraócht magical theatre which included improv drama, shadow theatre, contemporary dance and nature connection with the children of Corca Dhuibhne. The play offers spiritual solutions to ecological problems and was an attempt to empower the children in the context of ecological collapse, which they were only to well aware of. We performed in Aras Bréannain at Christmas 2018 and in Díseart Gardens for Féile na Bealtaine, 2019.
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Páistí an Fhiáintais
Páiste na Aer: A Chaomhnóir, tháinig tairngreacht go dti Sibéal go dtiocfadh lá ina mbeadh na crainn go léir gearrtha síos is an spéir dubh le deatach ósna simnéithe. Cad a d’fhéadfaimis a dhéanamh chun é seo a sheachaint?
An Uan Uaine:
Le leanbh úrnua
Chuir síol crainn sa tuath
Is gach bliain ar a bhreithlá
Tharr phréamh is faoi scath
Raghfar ina luí, codlófar faoi
Is beidh cumarsáid
O dhuilleog go láimh
O chraobh go bráid
Chun nasc a dhearradh
Is ní dhéanfar iad a ghearradh
ó cheann go crann
ó Am go hAm
ó Fhómhar go Fómhar
Go deo na ndeor
