The Seeker Street Spectacle

MOTHU, a street-performance company from West Kerry, close the summer in Killarney with an hour of theatre made for the street rather than a stage. Giant puppets, fire dancers, musicians and lantern-carriers gather at Market Cross and process down Main Street to College Square.

What lifts it above a parade is what it is about. The Seeker, An Cuardaitheoir, takes its cue from Sean O Riordain, one of the great Irish-language poets of the twentieth century, and his writing on the soul, on isolation and on starting again. O Riordain spent much of his life a few miles east of here, and the piece brings the themes of his poems into the street as figures you can walk alongside.

It is free, it is outdoors, and it is worth knowing that the whole thing moves: this is not a show you take a seat for. Standing anywhere along Main Street between the two ends works, and the later part of the route towards College Square is usually less crowded than the start.

It runs late by family standards, starting at 8.45pm, but the darkness is rather the point once the lanterns and the fire are lit.