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Rebecca Newman, Thos Wainwright, Ben Hills and Joey Hicknam in We’re Going on a Bear Hunt at the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

Rating:****

Runs until December 30

In Michael Rosen’s much-loved picture-book from 1989, a family head off on an adventure dreaming of – but not quite hoping – to find a bear. The book is brilliantly structured, taking the reader on a journey through a variety of landscapes, which offer various obstacles and sensory experiences: swishy-swashy grass, squelchy-squerchy mud, a splishy-splashy river. The family ...