Past Productions
The Spanish Tragedy
Date: Wednesday 17/8/22
Venue: Project Arts Centre
For our annual Big Show witness Thomas Kyd’s classic revenge tragedy , brought to the Project Arts Centre stage in a bold contemporary production by Dublin Youth Theatre, directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks.
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Debut One Act Festival 2022
Date: Tuesday 12/4/22
Venue: Theatre@36
DYT presents our annual Debut One Act Festival – otherwise known as DOAF – with 3 plays performed each evening by members making their DYT debut, live and in-person at Theatre@36 in Club Na Múinteoirí on Parnell Sq.
MOAF 2021
Date: Sunday 21/11/21
Venue: The Teachers Club Theatre and 18 Montague Lane
The Windstealers
Date: Friday 30/7/21
Venue: Belgrave Square Park, Rathmines
Dublin Youth Theatre’s annual Big Show returns as A Play in the Park, live outdoor performances in Belgrave Square Park, Rathmines with the support of Fair in the Square and the Rathmines Initiative.
Night in a Cell
Date: Saturday 12/6/21
Venue: online
Join us for Cruinniú na nÓg for a free showcase performance of DYT member Harry Lawlor’s Night in a Cell, directed by Casey Hallahan. It will be performed as part of Creative Ireland’s Cruinniú na nÓg programme on Saturday 12 June 2021 at 8pm.
Debut One Act Festival 2021- Rehearsed Readings
Date: Friday 9/4/21
Venue: online
An evening of rehearsed readings from 5 plays written by DYT members as part of the Writers’ Group, performed by First Year DYT members.
ZOONOSIS [zoo – uh – no – sis]
Date: Wednesday 12/8/20
Venue: online
an online bedroom pop-opera about lifeforms in lockdown.
by Cal Folger Day
directed by Tom Creed
NOW ON GENERAL RELEASE: www.zoonosis.ie
Pets love a pandemic (mostly). Dogs never get to have their humans at home with them so much. Maybe the cats are secretly wishing everyone would go back to work. But our intersections with other animals and plants are not so simple. ZOONOSIS takes a sideways look at how the pandemic has impacted our fellow species on earth…
Debut One Act Festival 2020, part II – DIPPED
Date: Saturday 13/6/20
Venue:
“DIPPED”, by Dan Drumm – a radio play
Having come to Dublin for university, the chaotic nightlife of her city friends is unfamiliar to country girl Grace. She soon is faced with the hedonism of her eclectic group of city friends through the course of one eventful night on the town…
Debut One Act Festival 2020 Part I – REMOTE
Date: Saturday 6/6/20
Venue: online
REMOTE – a play produced for the DYT Debut One Act Festival 2020, by DYT members and Director Ruth Lehane. Devised, rehearsed and performed remotely using ZOOM.
“Strange times. Here we all are, stuck apart, but with a desperate need to communicate. If only we knew what to say to each other…”
The Quaranscene Series
Date: Sunday 31/5/20
Venue: Online
DYT members have been making short films of pieces they’ve written together during the coronacoaster. It’s a series they’ve called Quaranscene and we’ve been streaming on instagram and sharing among the members over zoom. They’ve organised the whole shebang themselves and we love what they’ve done.
View all the Quaranscenes here now.
Members’ One Act Festival 2020
Date: Wednesday 4/3/20
Venue: online
Celebrate I Heart Youth Theatre Day with DYT and watch 3 short films filmed at axis:Ballymun in December 2020.
DYT Writers’ Group Reading 2020
Date: Wednesday 15/1/20
Venue: 18 Montague Lane
Join us for a reading of scenes from the plays written in DYT’s Writers’ Group 2019-2020.
Members’ One Act Festival 2019
Date: Tuesday 26/11/19
Venue: Theatre@36, 36 Parnell Square West, Rotunda, Dublin 1
Join us for our annual Members One Act Festival, otherwise known as MOAF. At each performance you will see 3 new plays written, directed and performed by current DYT members.
The Sleepwalkers
Date: Wednesday 2/10/19
Venue: axis: Ballymun
The Sleepwalkers is an original theatre project co-produced by Dublin Youth Theatre and Pan Pan. After a successful run in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in July, it will be remounted as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2019 in axis: Ballymun.
The Sleepwalkers
Date: Monday 22/7/19
Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre
“When I was young I used to sleepwalk, who am I kidding I still do”
The Sleepwalkers is an original theatre project co-produced by Dublin Youth Theatre and Pan Pan.
DYT Writers’ Group Reading
Date: Wednesday 24/4/19
Venue: Fringe Lab, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Join us for a reading of scenes from the plays written in DYT’s Writers’ Group 2018-19.
Playwright Michelle Read worked with 7 members of DYT from October to write their own one act plays.
First Year One Act Festival 2019
Date: Tuesday 16/4/19
Venue: Theatre@36, Teachers' Club, Parnell Sq, Dublin 1
An evening of 3 plays performed by First Year DYT members.
DYT presents our annual First Year One Act Festival – otherwise known as FYOAF- an evening of 3 one act plays performed by our newest members at the Teachers’ Club from 16 to 20 April.
Members’ One Act Festival 2018
Date: Tuesday 13/11/18
Time: Preview: 13 November 2018 @ 19:30 Matinee: 17 November 2018 @ 15:00 Dates: 14-17 November 2018 @ 19:30
Venue: Theatre@36, Teachers’ Club, Parnell Sq. Dublin 1
Join us for our annual Members One Act Festival, otherwise known as MOAF. At each performance you will see 3 new plays written, directed and performed by current DYT members.
The Comedy of Errors
Date: Tuesday 14/8/18
Venue: Boys' School, Smock Alley Theatre
In a strange city where everyone watches everyone else, strangers are never welcome. Two young visitors arrive in the city unaware that their long-lost twins already live there. But really, what’s the worst that could happen?
First Year One Act Festival 2018
Date: Tuesday 27/3/18
Time: 19:30:00
Venue: Theatre@36, Teachers' Club, Parnell Sq West
An evening of 3 plays performed by First Year DYT members.
DYT presents our annual First Year One Act Festival (FYOAF), an evening of 3 one-act plays performed by our newest members at the Teachers Club from 27th-31st March.
Dublin Youth Theatre Writers’ Group Staged Reading
Date: Thursday 11/1/18
Time: 19:00:00
Venue: Irish Writers Centre
Join us for a reading of one of DYT’s Writers’ Group’s plays at the Irish Writers Centre
The Dublin Youth Theatre Playwright-in-Residence is one of the Irish Writers Centre’s Community Writer-in-Residence schemes.
DYT at Forty: A Portrait Series of Alumni
Date: Saturday 16/12/17
Time: 19:00:00
Venue:
Photographer and DYTer Aoife Herrity presents portraits of DYT alumni, staff and members as part of DYT’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
this is a room…
Date: Thursday 26/10/17
Time: 30 Sept - 1 Oct 14:45
Venue: The Cube, Project Arts Centre
Dublin Youth Theatre is proud to present this year’s Big Show as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2017.
Members One Act Festival 2017 @ Teachers Club
Date: Tuesday 22/8/17
Time: 26 Aug 14:30
Venue: Teachers Club
Join us for our annual Members One Act Festival!
MOAF will run in Theatre@36 at the Teachers’ Club on Parnell Square from 22-26 August 2017.
DYT@40 A Gala Retrospective
Date: Saturday 17/6/17
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Project Arts Centre
DYT presents a look back at the last 40 Years
A retrospective look back at the work of Dublin Youth Theatre since its foundation in 1977.
First Year One Act Festival 2017
Date: Tuesday 18/4/17
Time: 2.30pm 7.30pm
Venue: Teachers Club
FYOAF 2107 April 18-22, Teachers Club Parnell Square DYT presents 3 performances from new members at the Teachers Club April 18-22.
Members One Act Festival 2016
Date: Tuesday 1/11/16
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Teachers Club
DYT presents MOAF 2016, 4 new plays by DYT members
DYT are delighted to present the annual Members One Act Festival 2016, which will run from 1st – 5th of November nightly at 7.30pm, with a special matinee for YT members on Saturday the 5th – special offer on tickets (€5). Performances will take place in The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1
Rising
Date: Wednesday 17/8/16
Venue: Abbey Theatre's Peacock Stage
A modern take on the Rising of 1916 brought to life by interviews and stories collected by the young people of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2016
Date: Tuesday 29/3/16
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Teachers Club Parnell Square
DYT presents 3 performances from new members at the Teachers Club March 29-April 2.
Show Me Love
Date: Tuesday 27/10/15
Time: 7.30 2.30
Venue:
Dublin Youth Theatre presents their annual BIG SHOW for 2015. Show Me Love written by Colin Thornton and Directed by Deirdre Molloy will take to the stage of Smock Alley Theatre October 27th to 31st.
Members One Act Festival 2015
Date: Tuesday 25/8/15
Venue:
DYT presents the annual Members One Act Festival 2015
We are delighted to present the annual Members One Act Festival 2015, which will run from Aug 25-29 nightly at 7.30pm in Theatre@36, the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1.
First Year One Act Festival 2015
Date: Tuesday 31/3/15
Venue: Teacher's Club
Productions of Attempts On Her Life and Karma by the first year members of DYT.
Spring Awakening (A Tragedy of Childhood)
Date: Thursday 9/10/14
Venue: Axis Ballymun
Spring Awakening is a fearless portrayal of the lives of young people growing up in a repressive society. It is a play about discovery, desire and the loss of innocence.
First Year One Acts Festival 2014
Date: Tuesday 22/4/14
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of The Forest of Invisible Children and A Play About Stories by the first year members of DYT.
Members’ One Act Festival 2013
Date: Tuesday 20/8/13
Venue:
Productions of Life Without Shelter and The Blame Game by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2013
Date: Tuesday 26/3/13
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of False Truth, This is What Makes Us Girls, Shut Up and Deano by the first year members of DYT.
Members One Act Festival 2012
Date: Tuesday 30/10/12
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Tarot, Three Monkeys and a Prince and The End by the second year members of DYT.
RSVP
Date: Thursday 13/9/12
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Our aim was to make a world with the company of young people, a world in which the audience can roam and play and engage as they choose.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Date: Tuesday 6/12/11
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Members’ One Act Festival 2011
Date: Tuesday 23/8/11
Venue:
Productions of September 4th, Tricycle of Horrible Notions, And Then He Was All and We’re Still Kids by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2011
Date: Tuesday 26/4/11
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Jigsaw, Party, and That’s What Happens When You Go To A Party…Things Spill by the first year members of DYT.
Batsh*t
Date: Tuesday 1/2/11
Venue: Project Arts Centre; Scottish National Festival of Youth Theatre in Fife, Edinburgh
Set in modern day Dublin, Batsh*t is an unflinching exploration of the darker side of Irish youth; a no holds barred commentary on the pressures faced by the young people of the city and an uncompromising look at what happens when the pressure becomes too much.
Members One Act Festival 2010
Date: Sunday 22/8/10
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Get off the phone, I need to use the internet, and 1992 by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2010
Date: Tuesday 6/4/10
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of P + (5 x E) + (3 x H), Not What We Had in Mind, Caring is Contagious?, and
Wake Up Sleeping Beauties by the first year members of DYT.
The Cusp Assignment
Date: Thursday 20/8/09
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Created for and presented at the 1st World Festival of Youth Theatre, Vienna, in July 2009.
First Year One Act Festival 2009
Date: Tuesday 7/4/09
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of Park Bench, Strike, The Invisible Girl, Yesterday and Incident Occurred and East End Tales by the first year members of DYT.
Daily Bread
Date: Tuesday 4/11/08
Venue: Project Arts Centre
First Year One Acts Festival 2008
Date: Wednesday 26/3/08
Venue:
Productions of Fairy God Father is Dead, Autobahn (Adapted), Road (Adapted Extract) and This Hit Parade by the first year members of DYT.
Members’ One Act Festival 2007
Date: Tuesday 4/12/07
Venue: Studio 27
Two weeks of productions of The Libertines, The Professional Wizard Package, The Pyramid Triangle, That Would Be Love, Swords & Stones, Sally and This is s Story About Your Mother by the second year members of DYT.
This is Still Life
Date: Wednesday 1/8/07
Venue:
So what is the show about? It’s about them. It’s about those 17 performers who gave up their own stories, and inimitable personalities to the creation of a piece which could not exist without them. They are the author and they are the subject.
The Cripple of Inismaan
Date: Wednesday 13/12/06
Venue: Project Cube
Excitement hits the island of Inish Mór and the sleepy village of Inishmaan when the local gossip, Johnnypateeenmike, announces that a Hollywood film crew is coming to a film a movie on a nearby island.
Members One Act Festival 2006
Date: Wednesday 30/8/06
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of A Day in the Life, Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?, A Play On Words and Narcolepsy by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Acts Festival 2006
Date: Tuesday 25/4/06
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Purple, Uninvited Guests and Chatroom by the first year members of DYT.
Members’ One Act Festival 2005
Date: Tuesday 25/10/05
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions Blackout Bob’s Midnight Cabaret, The Universal Language, Bang You’re Dead and A Man Alone by the second year members of DYT.
Faith/Angels
Date: Thursday 25/8/05
Venue: Temple Bar Diversions Festival
Faith/Angels is an expression of belief through digital music and film, live song and drama involving a variety of choirs and musical groups from a variety of religious and ethnic communities living in Dublin.
First Year One Act Festival 2005
Date: Tuesday 29/3/05
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of The Apple, Fishin’ Like Finn, You Are Here and What Now? put on by the first year members of DYT.
Christmas Magic Show
Date: Wednesday 1/12/04
Venue: Project Cube
Christmas Magic Show was devised through a series of workshops where the themes and storylines were developed in collaboration with the members. The play revolves around a school of children’s entertainers, its students, and its neurotic head teacher, Mr. Spludgit.
Red Ball
Date: Thursday 28/10/04
Venue: SFX City Theatre
An honest police detective struggles to keep it together when the rest of the force, including her partner, is corrupt.
Members One Act Festival 2004
Date: Monday 2/8/04
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Fool For Love and The Ballad by the second year members of DYT.
Some Kind of Beautiful
Date: Tuesday 1/10/02
Venue: The Project Cube, Dublin
Dublin Youth Theatre presents Some Kind of Beautiful at The Project Cube in Dublin.
Members One Act Festival 2002
Date: Tuesday 20/8/02
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of East of Me, Places ad The Time, It Slipped Away… by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2002
Date: Tuesday 9/4/02
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Missing, The Last Laugh, All Stations – After Mamet and Well of Saints by the first year members of DYT.
Oblivion
Date: Friday 2/11/01
Venue: Project Arts Centre
A play in two halves: One half of the show, ‘the play’, takes place in the Project Cube while the other half, ‘the dressing room’, takes place in the Gallery. Audience members, also split in two, switch locations after the interval allowing them to witness, by the end, a whole.
In Project Cube one witnesses a struggling youth theatre show whilst the Gallery, staged as a dressing room, becomes the backstage area for this same youth theatre show. Each play half sheds light on the other asking questions about what it means to stage a play? What even is a play at all? And, crucially, when does a performance end and reality begin?
We sadly do not have much information on this production. If you have more knowledge than us, or were involved in Oblivion, please do let us know! You can email . We would love to hear from you!
Members’ One Act Festival 2001
Date: Tuesday 14/8/01
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of Projections, This Function, Solange, Rejuvinity, Anywhere But Here and Really Lamb by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2001
Date: Wednesday 18/4/01
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of Bell’s Hotel, The Ugly Penguin Scenarios, Obsessions and I Got the Blues, Babe put on by DYTs first year members.
Timebomb
Date: Monday 6/11/00
Venue: Project Cube
24 hours in the life of Dublin. A heaving metropolis. Imagine an explosion. 9 young Dubliners detonate the smug Celtic Tiger, leaving a shrapnel of stories that tap the pulse of Dublin City in the year 2000.
Members One Act Festival 2000
Date: Wednesday 16/8/00
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Pathways, Phear, Tuttifrutti, Litter Duty, Lost Stuff and What You Leave Behind by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 2000
Date: Wednesday 26/4/00
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Je M’Appelle Marlene, Ice, The Limerick and Cherubs ‘n Cheekbones put on by the first year members of DYT.
Members’ One Act Festival 1999
Date: Tuesday 2/11/99
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks productions of Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box, Deliverance (of the Box), Mind Games, Sofa Scene, Sweet You Rock + Sweet You Roll, Ragdolls of Remembrance, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep and It Can’t Rain All The Time by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 1999
Date: Wednesday 28/4/99
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of Do-Gooders, Stanley, The Midlife Crisis of Dionysus and LOL put on by the first year members of DYT.
United Colours of Domino
Date: Tuesday 17/11/98
Venue: Project at the Mint
I’m Nobody. Every character has a personal journey. Everybody is somebody.
Members One Act Festival 1998
Date: Tuesday 25/8/98
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Billie Comma Peter Comma Billie Comma Jane, Easy Come Easy Go, The Vicar of Nibbleswick and …..to B or not to B…. by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 1998
Date: Tuesday 14/4/98
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Bar and Ger, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Three Quid an Hour and Exit Music put on by the first year members of DYT.
Pericles
Date: Friday 24/10/97
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Classic Shakespearian tale told by the young people of DYT.
Members’ One Act Festival 1997
Date: Monday 18/8/97
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of I Love Jane, An Banoglach Garbh – The Rough Guide, Crimes of the Heart, Fool for Love, The Houdini & Crippen Syndrome and Bleak Insects by the second year members of DYT.
Buzzin’ To Bits
Date: Monday 14/4/97
Venue: Project Arts Centre
The action of Buzzin’ To Bits takes place on a piece of waste ground in the middle of a large housing estate. It is home territory to a motley crew of characters ranging in age from 14-22.
Spinning Webs
Date: Thursday 5/12/96
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Spinning Webs is a performance play which grew out of a series of workshops between the cast and the writer based on the young people’s dreams.
Members One Act Festival 1996
Date: Tuesday 20/8/96
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of 42?, Some Kind of Love Story, It Takes Two, Mirroring Angels and On Her Majesty’s Payroll by the second year members of DYT.
First Year One Act Festival 1996
Date: Wednesday 24/4/96
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Crowd Scene, The Proposal, Wake up Sleeping Beauty and Eleemosynary by the first year members of DYT
Happy End
Date: Wednesday 6/12/95
Venue: Project Arts Centre
The classic musical brought to Dublin to amaze and dazzle you with it’s dark gangster storyline.
Members’ One Act Festival 1995
Date: Tuesday 22/8/95
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of Manmade, Medea, Tissue, Weave and The Wannabees by the second year members of DYT.
It’s Only Words
Date: Monday 10/7/95
Venue: National Festival of Youth Theatre, Wexford; Players' Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama Studies, Trinity College, Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe '95
Made up of ensemble as well as individual performances, It’s Only Words seeks to explore the darker themes of non-love songs and the comic potential of pop lyrics as poetry or dialogue.
First Year One Act Festival 1995
Date: Tuesday 11/4/95
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of memorable productions of Gotcha, To, and Hanjo put on by DYT
You Should Thank God, Fasting for the Love of a Good Man
Date: Wednesday 30/11/94
Venue: Project Arts Centre
A sexual comedy by Anne Enright that follows the lives of three girls as they move from Just Seventeen to Cosmopolitan.
HAUNTED
Date: Thursday 18/8/94
Venue: Streets of Temple Bar
A theatre piece that moves across the city telling a Haunting tale.
No Peace Without Dialogue
Date: Friday 29/4/94
Venue: Youth Theatre Festival, Brussels
Nine young adults perform an original piece about miscommunications and language.
Members One Act Festival 1994
Date: Monday 25/4/94
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Alone on the Autobahn, Promises, Promises and The River by the second year members of DYT.
First Years One Act Festival 1994
Date: Thursday 14/4/94
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Riders to the Sea and The White Sleep by the first year members of DYT.
The Girls of Summer
Date: Wednesday 24/11/93
Venue: Project Arts Centre, Dublin
A feminist football musical.
Members’ One Act Festival 1993
Date: Monday 30/8/93
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of Worlds, Dancing With Dev, Color Blind and Miodamas – Piobaireachy Is Briongloidi’ by the second year members of DYT.
Elbows Off!
Date: Tuesday 13/7/93
Venue: National Festival of Youth Theatres in Kilkenny; Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Dublin Youth Theatre presents Elbows Off!, a play devised by the cast of DYT and directed by John White.
Whale Nation and Savage Love
Date: Monday 29/3/93
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
DYT presents Whale Nation, directed by Veronica Coburn and Savage Love, directed by Madeline Boughton.
An Evening of Beckett
Date: Monday 22/3/93
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
An exposition of works by the famous Beckett such as Come and Go, Footfall, and That Time
WAVE
Date: Tuesday 1/9/92
Venue: Foyle Arts Centre, Derry
A collaborative effort devised by DYT with Contact Youth Theatre and Ulster Youth Theatre.
Sawney Goop and the Small Square Pig
Date: Friday 17/7/92
Venue: National Festival of Youth Theatres, Tralee at O’Connell Street, Dublin and Dublin Theatre Festival at St. Stephens Green
After the revolution, the effect of censorship was oppressive [REDACTED]
We sadly do not have a lot of information on this production. If anyone knows more or was directly involved, please do get in touch. We’d love to hear from you! Email:
Happy Families: The Impact of AIDS on Families
Date: Thursday 4/6/92
Venue: National Festival of Youth Theatres, Tralee at O’Connell Street, Dublin and Dublin Theatre Festival at St. Stephens Green,
The story of a modern family facing a modern problem.
Members’ One Act Festival 1992
Date: Tuesday 28/4/92
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of The Shawl, To, Womberang and Black Comedy by the second year members of DYT.
Christmas Storeys
Date: Monday 2/12/91
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Three stories told in one building, three levels of Christmas and all power to the audience.
Members’ One Act Festival 1991
Date: Thursday 22/8/91
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Two weeks of productions of Home Truths, Who Dares Loses, Ambitions, First Appearances and
Perfection City by the second year members of DYT.
Betrayals
Date: Sunday 16/6/91
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
This play is fiction. There is no record that the incidents it describes ever took place. The play is not the conclusion of exhaustive research, (though I did find the research exhausting). It will not enlighten you about the real life of the Joyce family. But I hope it presents possibilities; another way of looking at what Joyce’s famous decision to exile might have meant to those around him. And a way of looking at what life was possibly like for young women in Ireland in 1904.
Was He Anyone?
Date: Thursday 7/2/91
Venue: The Studio, Dublin
N. F. Simpson’s absurdist play was brought to DYT under the direction of Marieva Coughlan.
The Colleen Bawn
Date: Wednesday 7/11/90
Venue: Project Arts Centre
A suspense-filled tale of tangled love, misplaced honour and downright skulduggery.
Members One Acts Festival 1990
Date: Wednesday 12/9/90
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Productions of The Hall of Healing, Between Mouthfuls, The Sneeze, Forgotten Heart and The Thin Line by the second year members of DYT.
Tales from Havilah
Date: Monday 16/7/90
Venue: Lombard Street Studios
Language and music set to the worried thoughts of a child who nears his own birth…
The Suicide
Date: Wednesday 7/3/90
Venue: Project Arts Center
Semyon Semyonovich is fed up! Word gets out that he is committing suicide, and suddenly poets, lovers, intellectuals and postmen are queueing up asking him to do it for them.
Children of Eve
Date: Friday 10/11/89
Venue: Andrews Lane Theatre
Children of Eve was a co- production between DYT, The Abbey and Andrew’s Lane Theatre. Rehearsals for the production took place in The Abbey rehearsal room and the cast was a mixture of Abbey players and young Dublin Youth Theatre members.
Set in an Irish orphanage during the 1950’s ‘Children of Eve’ dramatises polio victim Breige Reynold’s quest to find out the truth about her mother’s supposed death.
The Misanthrope
Date: Thursday 15/6/89
Venue: Dublin Shakespeare Studio, 41 North Great Georges Street
Soirees and salon intrigues form the backdrop against which the anti-social ‘hero’, Alceste, attempts to win the love of Celimene, ‘the reigning queen of bitchy wits’.
1992
Date: Thursday 23/2/89
Venue: Project Arts Centre
1992 is a thriller, specially written for the group by Gerard Stembridge, who also directs.
Gulliver
Date: Monday 7/11/88
Venue: Project Arts Centre
A retelling of the classic story of Gulliver with a modern twist on the perspective of his travels.
The Plough and the Stars
Date: Monday 20/6/88
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Set in the turbulence of the rebellion of Easter, 1916, The Plough and the Stars is a landmark in O’Casey’s career for a number of reasons.
They’ll Be Turned in Their Graves
Date: Tuesday 19/4/88
Venue: Irish Film Institute
The Arts in Ireland have always been underfunded. This has been detrimental to theatre companies devising their own work. Despite this, Dublin Youth Theatre has a noble history of work devised by its members.
The Comedy of Errors
Date: Tuesday 17/11/87
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Brothers and Sisters
Date: Wednesday 29/4/87
Venue: The SFX Centre
‘Brothers & Sisters’ is a musical that puts present day Dublin into the Hollywood world of gangsters, mobsters, dolls and teenage kids.
Leaving
Date: Tuesday 20/1/87
Venue: Project Arts Centre
‘Leaving’ portrays teenagers in the ’80’s at the point of departure from the world of school to the world of both independence and tough realities.
Farewells and Testaments
Date: Saturday 29/3/86
Venue: Irish Festival, Brent
A new play devised by the cast and director Aidan Parkinson
Charades
Date: Monday 30/12/85
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street, at Dublin Theatre Festival
New Year’s Eve 1899. At 23 Upper Gardiner Street, the home of George Patterson (local slum landlord) and family, will there be a party to celebrate the New Year?
A Series of One Acts 1985
Date: Monday 28/1/85
Venue: Dublin Shakespeare Society Studio Theatre, North Great Georges Street
Two weeks of fun and play with productions such as The Real Inspector Hound, Decibels, The Common Good, and The Cagebirds.
You Are Invited…
Date: Friday 16/11/84
Venue: SFX Center, Dublin; London
A series of 15 scenes devised by DYT and Art O’Briain.
The Rimers of Eldritch
Date: Tuesday 16/10/84
Venue: Project Arts Centre
The play is set in the mid-20th century in Eldritch, Missouri, a decaying Bible Belt town that once was a prosperous coal mining community.
A Series of One Acts 1984
Date: Monday 30/1/84
Venue: Dublin Shakespeare Studio
Two weeks of productions, headliners are Lovers (Winners), A Day in the Mind of Titch Oldfield, The Living Hell, Sing to me Through Open Windows, and Audition.
Bust
Date: Monday 21/11/83
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Dublin Youth Theatre is proud to announce the premier of BUST by Peter Sheridan. This play was commissioned by Dublin Youth Theatre and was the first such play specially written for the group.
A Series of One Acts 1983
Date: Friday 1/7/83
Venue: 23 Upper Gardiner Street
Death of Bessie Smith, Laughlines, and Chamber Music headline this series of one acts.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Date: Tuesday 5/4/83
Venue: Project Arts Centre
The classic tale of love and comedy by William Shakespeare given new life by the young crew of Dublin Youth Theatre.
Operation Elvis
Date: Tuesday 7/12/82
Venue: The Studio
Operation Elvis is the story of a boy, Gary, out of touch with reality but his newfound friendship with a handicapped boy opens a new world for him.
Dear Dirty Dublin
Date: Sunday 18/7/82
Venue: Bretton Hall College of Arts
Dramatised excerpts from the works of James Joyce
A Series of One Acts 1982
Date: Tuesday 6/7/82
Venue:
Headline productions for this festival are This Property is Condemned, The Do-It-Yourself Frankenstein Outfit, Potatoes, and Alberts Bridge
Dark of the Moon
Date: Monday 22/2/82
Venue: Project Arts Centre
A dramatization of a ballad from the American south with magic, love and twists.
Flowers in the Rain
Date: Thursday 10/12/81
Venue: The Studio, Dublin
A play devised by DYT and Peter Sheridan.
She Stoops To Conquer
Date: Monday 16/3/81
Venue: Eblana Theatre, Dublin
A comedy of class, courtship and dysfunctional families set in the heart of the Irish countryside.
The Pigman
Date: Monday 9/3/81
Venue: Eblana Theatre, Dublin
Based on the novel by Paul Zindel, this coming of age story follows two boys and their unlikely friend.
A Series of One Acts 1981
Date: Saturday 10/1/81
Venue: The Studio, Dublin
The series of one acts for 1981 are headlined by Something Unspoken, The Proposal, and A Revue
Black and White and Read All Over
Date: Tuesday 18/11/80
Venue: Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Jugend Theater Tage, Vienna
Dublin Youth Theatre’s fanciful journey into the world of print journalism with some musical twists.
Tonto
Date: Wednesday 11/6/80
Venue: Grapeview Arts Centre, Nth Fredrick St. and International Youth Theatre Festival, Vienna
A musical extravaganza devised by DYT.
Beckett and Brecht
Date: Monday 24/3/80
Venue: Trinity Players Theatre
A jaunting journey through the works of Beckett and Brecht, joining the two authors in a new and exciting way by the members of Dublin Youth Theatre.
The Children’s Crusade
Date: Monday 3/12/79
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Based on the children’s crusades of the 13th century; the story of the 20,000 children who perished, some through slavery and some through some other tragedy.
Yerma
Date: Tuesday 27/3/79
Venue: TCD Players Theatre, Trinity College
This play by Federico García Lorca tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain.
Romeo and Juliet
Date: Tuesday 19/12/78
Venue: John Player Theatre
An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed.
We sadly do not have a lot of information about this production or who was involved in it. If anyone knows more please do get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! Email
In Need of Care
Date: Monday 10/4/78
Venue: Player Wills Theatre
A story of star crossed lovers where nothing is as it seems.
Winners (Lovers)
Date: Monday 10/4/78
Venue: Player Wills Theatre
Brian Fiel’s narrative of a young couple facing an unwanted pregnancy.
