Anna Newell Theatre Adventures make a blissful splash at hydrotherapy pools in Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare this summer, with their latest music theatre show for children with complex needs:

Anna Newell is a Tonic Theatre Award winner (2017) for ‘women who are changing the face of theatre and the performing arts’ and a finalist of the Ellen Stewart International Award 2016 for ’theatre makers whose work with/for young people has a major social impact'. Her work SING ME TO THE SEA is a blissful immersive adventure for children/young people with complex needs. It is performed in hydropools with 3 audience members per show, each with an adult companion–with everyone in the water! The successful show now in its fifth year and in partnership with Enable Ireland is touring this summer and will be making quite the splash with its audience. The three performers take the audience on a magical journey of exquisite harmony singing and gentle water play designed especially for children with complex needs, embracing and celebrating the sensory dialogue that they have with the world around them. This unique specially designed theatrical experience runs at Enable Ireland, Bray, Co Wicklow in conjunction with Mermaid Arts Centre, from July 3 - 7.

SING ME TO THE SEA is both a piece of art and a piece of advocacy for the right of all children and young people to experience the arts in a way that connects, engages and delights; and, for this very particular audience, artwork that embraces and celebrates the sensory dialogue that they will experience in this unique magical journey of water and sound.