IN DOWTCHA Puppets’ headquarters, two men are wrestling a giant high-heeled shoe. It’s pantomime season, and Dowtcha’s artistic co-directors, Cliff Dolliver and Davy Dummigan, have been drafted in to produce a giant glass slipper prop for Cork Opera House in their guise as set designers and props builders.

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