Productions

12

Apr

2022

Debut One Act Festival 2022

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.

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30

Jul

2021

The Windstealers

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.

12

Jun

2021

Night in a Cell

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.

09

Apr

2021

Debut One Act Festival 2021- Rehearsed Readings

An evening of rehearsed readings from 5 plays written by DYT members as part of the Writers’ Group, performed by First Year DYT members.

04

Mar

2021

Members’ One Act Festival 2020

Celebrate I Heart Youth Theatre Day with DYT and watch 3 short films filmed at axis:Ballymun in December 2020.

12

Aug

2020

ZOONOSIS [zoo – uh – no – sis]

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…

13

Jun

2020

Debut One Act Festival 2020, part II – DIPPED

“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…

06

Jun

2020

Debut One Act Festival 2020 Part I – REMOTE

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…” 

15

Jan

2020

DYT Writers’ Group Reading 2020

Join us for a reading of scenes from the plays written in DYT’s Writers’ Group 2019-2020.

26

Nov

2019

Members’ One Act Festival 2019

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.

02

Oct

2019

The Sleepwalkers

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.

22

Jul

2019

The Sleepwalkers

“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.

14

Jun

2019

Members One Act Festival 2017 @ 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.

14

Jun

2019

DYT@40 A Gala Retrospective

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.

14

Jun

2019

Members One Act Festival 2016

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

24

Apr

2019

DYT Writers’ Group Reading

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.

16

Apr

2019

First Year One Act Festival 2019

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.

13

Nov

2018

Members’ One Act Festival 2018

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.

14

Aug

2018

The Comedy of Errors

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?

27

Mar

2018

First Year One Act Festival 2018

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.

11

Jan

2018

Dublin Youth Theatre Writers’ Group Staged Reading

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.

16

Dec

2017

DYT at Forty: A Portrait Series of Alumni

Photographer and DYTer Aoife Herrity presents portraits of DYT alumni, staff and members as part of DYT’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

26

Oct

2017

this is a room…

Dublin Youth Theatre is proud to present this year’s Big Show as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2017.

18

Apr

2017

First Year One Act Festival 2017

FYOAF 2107 April 18-22, Teachers Club Parnell Square DYT presents 3 performances from new members at the Teachers Club April 18-22.

Rising

A modern take on the Rising of 1916 brought to life by interviews and stories collected by the young people of DYT.

29

Mar

2016

First Year One Act Festival 2016

DYT presents 3 performances from new members at the Teachers Club March 29-April 2.

27

Oct

2015

Show Me Love

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

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

Productions of Attempts On Her Life and Karma by the first year members of DYT.

Spring Awakening (A Tragedy of Childhood)

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

Productions of The Forest of Invisible Children and A Play About Stories by the first year members of DYT.

Members’ One Act Festival 2013

Productions of Life Without Shelter and The Blame Game by the second year members of DYT.

First Year One Act Festival 2013

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

Productions of Tarot, Three Monkeys and a Prince and The End by the second year members of DYT.

RSVP

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

Members’ One Act Festival 2011

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

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

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

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

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

Created for and presented at the 1st World Festival of Youth Theatre, Vienna, in July 2009.

First Year One Act Festival 2009

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.

First Year One Acts Festival 2008

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

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

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

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

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

Productions of Purple, Uninvited Guests and Chatroom by the first year members of DYT.

Members’ One Act Festival 2005

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

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

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

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

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

Productions of Fool For Love and The Ballad by the second year members of DYT.

Some Kind of Beautiful

Dublin Youth Theatre presents Some Kind of Beautiful at The Project Cube in Dublin.

Members One Act Festival 2002

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

Productions of Missing, The Last Laugh, All Stations – After Mamet and Well of Saints by the first year members of DYT.

Oblivion

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 admin@dublinyouththeatre.comcreate new email. We would love to hear from you!

Members’ One Act Festival 2001

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m Nobody. Every character has a personal journey. Everybody is somebody.

Members One Act Festival 1998

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

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

Classic Shakespearian tale told by the young people of DYT.

Members’ One Act Festival 1997

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

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

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

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

Productions of Crowd Scene, The Proposal, Wake up Sleeping Beauty and Eleemosynary by the first year members of DYT

Happy End

The classic musical brought to Dublin to amaze and dazzle you with it’s dark gangster storyline.

Members’ One Act Festival 1995

Two weeks of productions of Manmade, Medea, Tissue, Weave and The Wannabees by the second year members of DYT.

It’s Only Words

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

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

A sexual comedy by Anne Enright that follows the lives of three girls as they move from Just Seventeen to Cosmopolitan.

HAUNTED

A theatre piece that moves across the city telling a Haunting tale.

No Peace Without Dialogue

Nine young adults perform an original piece about miscommunications and language.

Members One Act Festival 1994

Productions of Alone on the Autobahn, Promises, Promises and The River by the second year members of DYT.

First Years One Act Festival 1994

Productions of Riders to the Sea and The White Sleep by the first year members of DYT.

The Girls of Summer

A feminist football musical.

Members’ One Act Festival 1993

Productions of Worlds, Dancing With Dev, Color Blind and Miodamas – Piobaireachy Is Briongloidi’ by the second year members of DYT.

Elbows Off!

Dublin Youth Theatre presents Elbows Off!, a play devised by the cast of DYT and directed by John White.

Whale Nation and Savage Love

DYT presents Whale Nation, directed by Veronica Coburn and Savage Love, directed by Madeline Boughton.

An Evening of Beckett

An exposition of works by the famous Beckett such as Come and Go, Footfall, and That Time

WAVE

A collaborative effort devised by DYT with Contact Youth Theatre and Ulster Youth Theatre.

Sawney Goop and the Small Square Pig

After the revolution, the effect of censorship was oppressive [REDACTED]

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Happy Families: The Impact of AIDS on Families

The story of a modern family facing a modern problem.

Members’ One Act Festival 1992

Productions of The Shawl, To, Womberang and Black Comedy by the second year members of DYT.

Christmas Storeys

Three stories told in one building, three levels of Christmas and all power to the audience.

Members’ One Act Festival 1991

Two weeks of productions of Home Truths, Who Dares Loses, Ambitions, First Appearances and

Perfection City by the second year members of DYT.

Betrayals

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?

N. F. Simpson’s absurdist play was brought to DYT under the direction of Marieva Coughlan.

The Colleen Bawn

A suspense-filled tale of tangled love, misplaced honour and downright skulduggery.

Members One Acts Festival 1990

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

Language and music set to the worried thoughts of a child who nears his own birth…

The Suicide

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

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

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

1992 is a thriller, specially written for the group by Gerard Stembridge, who also directs.

Gulliver

A retelling of the classic story of Gulliver with a modern twist on the perspective of his travels.

The Plough and the Stars

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

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.

Brothers and Sisters

‘Brothers & Sisters’ is a musical that puts present day Dublin into the Hollywood world of gangsters, mobsters, dolls and teenage kids.

Leaving

‘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

A new play devised by the cast and director Aidan Parkinson

Charades

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?

Our Day Out

A Remedial Teacher, Mrs. Kay, is taking her class on a fun trip down the country, but Mr. Waldron, another teacher, decides to attend to ensure discipline and to ‘educate’.

And featured in the RTÉ Archives:

RTÉ Archives | Arts and Culture | Dublin Youth Theatre (rte.ie)

A Series of One Acts 1985

Two weeks of fun and play with productions such as The Real Inspector Hound, Decibels, The Common Good, and The Cagebirds.

You Are Invited…

A series of 15 scenes devised by DYT and Art O’Briain.

The Rimers of Eldritch

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

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

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

Death of Bessie Smith, Laughlines, and Chamber Music headline this series of one acts.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The classic tale of love and comedy by William Shakespeare given new life by the young crew of Dublin Youth Theatre.

Operation Elvis

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

Dramatised excerpts from the works of James Joyce

A Series of One Acts 1982

Headline productions for this festival are This Property is Condemned, The Do-It-Yourself Frankenstein Outfit, Potatoes, and Alberts Bridge

Dark of the Moon

A dramatization of a ballad from the American south with magic, love and twists.

Flowers in the Rain

A play devised by DYT and Peter Sheridan.

She Stoops To Conquer

A comedy of class, courtship and dysfunctional families set in the heart of the Irish countryside.

The Pigman

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

The series of one acts for 1981 are headlined by Something Unspoken, The Proposal, and A Revue

Black and White and Read All Over

Dublin Youth Theatre’s fanciful journey into the world of print journalism with some musical twists.

Tonto

A musical extravaganza devised by DYT.

Beckett and Brecht

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

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

This play by Federico García Lorca tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain.

Romeo and Juliet

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 admin@dublinyouththeatre.comcreate new email

In Need of Care

A story of star crossed lovers where nothing is as it seems.

Winners (Lovers)

Brian Fiel’s narrative of a young couple facing an unwanted pregnancy.

Debs

A new take on the social preconception of what “Debs” are.

An excerpt of the production, filmed for Channel 4, is available here:

RTÉ Archives | Collections | Dublin Youth Theatre (rte.ie)

The Quaranscene Series

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.