The company is owned, managed and brought to you by Tegolin Knowland and Sean Coyne.Tegolin’s unique style of story telling features specially designed masks that bring the characters to life. After each show Tegolin invites the children to join her on stage for ‘hands-on time’ with the various masks and props, and to have fun with the different special effects that feature in her shows. Tegolin'
s Tales travels throughout Ireland and England bringing live theatre to festivals, schools and even children’s parties. You can also catch Tegolin during July and August in the Teach Cheol Renvyle and the celebrated Irish Nights at Paddy Coyne’s Pub Tullycross. THREE'S COMPANY - DRAMATIC RECITALS
Tegolin Knowland and Sean Coyne perform three dramatic recitals for two voices. Each of these takes a crucial element in Irish history and explores it in depth. The adaptation of Synge's Aran Islands offers an audience a glimpse of island life. The piece on the Great Famine, Hunger, uses documentary evidence to give audiences a dramatic feel for what has been such a silent and traumatic element in our history. Emigration Road explores a number of the iconic elements in the great wave of emigration from Ireland to the United States as well as looking forward to its presence as an aspect of contemporary Irish life. The value of their work, is that it allows people to relate to historical issues that are mostly met with in the dryer atmosphere of text book or lecture. What they have found however, is that these dramatic recitals speak feelingly to people's often unrecognised emotional connection to the Famine and to emigration. It seemed, when they performed them in America last year, they were particularly revealing and compelling for Irish-Americans who are always, we've found, desirous of connecting with their ancestral past."
