Debut One Act Festival 2025

About the production

Join us for our annual Debut One Act Festival, otherwise known as DOAF. This is the first time that new members have the chance to perform publicly, as part of DYT, having worked through a rehearsal process with a professional director.

Preview: Tuesday 22nd April 2025 – 7:30pm
Matinee: Saturday 26th April 2025 – 3pm

KJWC Inc.
Devised by the cast and Ellen Buckley, directed by Ellen Buckley
Assistant Directors: Nathan Kavanagh & Lucia Byrne
Cast: Aaron Dempsey, Riley Denham, Ola Lawal, Sebastian Little, Charlie O’Connor, Maiya O’Neill, Lucy Savage

A totalitarian government has taken over the world enforcing a swathe of anti-youth laws, and these kids are just not about that. In an abandoned office block in Dublin, a group of young people are starting over, building a new society outside the regime. But when a new kid arrives at the camp, their bond and their beliefs are tested.

 

Apocalpyse Soon
written & directed by Luka Costello
Assistant Directors: Elliott Hynes & Chloe Angulu
Cast: Finlay Boylan, Ciara Higgins, Ash Kennedy, Aaliyah McDermott, Elena Murphy, Polly Jean Wilson

“We have officially reached a new low. I think we have unlocked a layer of boredom never before seen. And it’s just going to get worse. We are stuck here forever, waiting for an apocalypse that will never come.”
The apocalypse is going to happen. Eventually. But certainly not before the Four Horsemen deal with their interpersonal problems, or until God and St. Peter lose their patience with the quarrelling quartet.

 

NO ESCAPE
Devised by the cast & Esosa Ighodaro, directed by Esosa Ighodaro
Assistant Directors: Laoise Power Moloney & Patrick Meenan
Cast: Sebastian Gabriel, Emma Loftus, Aoife Maguire, Crea Meehan, Iseult Murphy, Anna Trappe, Fintan Wilmot

A disparate group of young people must work together to free themselves from an escape room. In the process they realise they cannot escape who they are, only accept it.