Fishy Clouds is a puppet theatre performance about antimicrobial resistance and research with children, a collaboration between Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit and B-floor Theatre, funded by a Wellcome Trust Provision for Public Engagement grant.



"Fishy Clouds, a puppet theatre show, was created to engage communities in Thailand with issues of antimicrobial resistance and research with children. The show uses visual storytelling to bring the research and behaviour around antimicrobial resistance to life for a broad range of audiences across different ages, locations, levels of education, and language.

Fishy Clouds ran for twelve shows during the months of November and December 2016 in schools, hospitals, theatres and health centres. The show was performed in Bangkok and in the greater Mae Sot area in the Tak district of Thailand.

Approximately 1500 people watched Fishy Clouds with the audience spanning children, scientists, theatre goers, and migrant Burmese and Karen populations. Due to the vast and varying target audience, non-verbal life size puppets were combined with live music and audience participation to create a narrative that could be understood and related to in different contexts. The story, about the proper use of antimicrobials and consenting to involving children in research, enabled all audience members, regardless of language, to connect to the narrative and be moved by the situations and characters it presented...."

Read the full report: https://mesh.tghn.org/articles/project-report-fishy-clouds/