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SXSW video: Irish street theater invades downtown
On Saturday, March 12, 2016, Macnas, a spectacle company from Galway, Ireland, performed “The Wild Hunt and the Sleepwalker” in downtown Austin during SXSW Interactive. The show included a cast of 200, including locals, and 15-foot, machine-operated puppets.
You weren't dreaming if you thought you saw 15-foot-tall people parading through downtown Austin on Saturday evening. Macnas, an Irish theatrical street performance group, was in town to make its U.S. debut.
The group has celebrated Irish supergroup U2 and the millennium in Times Square, among others, according to its website. Saturday's show in Austin was a family-friendly tale about a curious boy and a giant butterfly.
