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Moss Piglet A portrait of the world’s most resilient critters

Term 3

Primary School: Stage 1 3, Years 2 – 6
Learning areas: English, Creative Arts, Science and Technology

Playful and thrilling, Moss Piglet is an epic new work for students about how even the tiniest of things can be the strongest. Tardigrades… perhaps you’ve heard of them? 

You can boil them, deep-freeze them, crush them, or even blast them into space. It doesn’t matter—tardigrades can survive practically anything...

National Geographic Kids

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Microscopic. Indestructible. Tiny, but tough.

Small but mighty, they have withstood multiple extinction cycles, surviving boiling temperatures and even the vacuum of space. With a surprising cult following, some people call them ‘Water Bears’, others call them ‘Moss Piglets’. 

Moss Piglet is an explosive portrait of the world’s most resilient and curious critters. Taking students from jelly-filled petri dishes to the depths of a volcano to Arctic glaciers to the moon, the work explodes the mysteries of the wildly weird tardigrade. 

Playful and thrilling, Moss Piglet is an epic new work about how even the tiniest of things can be the strongest. Think Bruce Willis in Die Hard… but teeny tiny with eight legs… who loves moss. 

Sydney Opera House presents a Windmill Theatre Company production 

A puppet looks up at a lit jelly fish.
Photos by Claudio Raschella

About Windmill Theatre Company

Based in Adelaide, Windmill Theatre Company has a global reputation as a leading producer of theatre for children, teenagers, and families. The company bring artists together to uncover and ignite stories that are burning to be told. Each year Windmill tours regionally, nationally and around the world. Windmill also has a screen producing arm, Windmill Pictures, that creates unique film and television projects.  

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