The Princess and The Goblin at Wexford Arts Centre

What to Expect

Theatre company Barking Dog adapt George MacDonald’s Victorian fantasy The Princess and The Goblin into an interactive show for children aged 5 to 10. Two actors carry the whole story using puppetry and audience participation, following Princess Irene and the miner’s son Curdie as they work out how to outwit the goblins living in the tunnels beneath the mountain. The company describe it as mystery, magic and goblins, with a touch of spooky sparkle, which places it neatly in the Halloween mid-term slot without tipping into anything frightening.

It plays at Wexford Arts Centre on Sunday 1 November 2026, the same day as Teddy on the Broomstick, the centre’s Halloween show for children aged six and under. Between the two, a family with a younger and an older child can do the day in one building. Wexford Arts Centre is housed in the old Market House on Cornmarket, an eighteenth-century building in the middle of the town that holds a theatre, exhibition galleries and a cafe.

Good to Know

• Sunday 1 November 2026
• Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford town
• Suitable for ages 5 to 10, and pitched as a first theatre experience
• Presented by Barking Dog
• Book online at wexfordartscentre.ticketsolve.com or through the box office
• Contact 053 912 3764 or boxoffice@wexfordartscentre.ie for performance times and ticket prices

Getting There

Wexford Arts Centre is on Cornmarket in the centre of Wexford town, a few minutes’ walk uphill from the quayfront. Wexford O’Hanrahan railway station sits on the quay, roughly ten minutes away on foot, on the Dublin Connolly to Rosslare Europort line. Bus Eireann and Wexford Bus services stop on the quay too. The quay car parks are the nearest parking, and Sunday rates are usually lighter than midweek.