Galway Youth Theatre
Galway Youth Theatre was established in 1991 to provide drama training for young people between the ages of 15 and 26 from Galway City and County. GYT provides a two year performance programme that aims to give participants training in various performance disciplines
Galway Youth Theatre
Galway Youth Theatre is currently recruiting new members for its two year performance course starting at the end of September 2009
If you are aged between 16 and 24, interested in performing, love theatre, want to have fun and make new friends Galway Youth Theatre is the place for you!
The Theatre performance course takes place two evenings per week for ten weeks each term; September – December and January – March at Nuns Island Theatre and Galway Arts Centre. Workshops take place in the evenings to accommodate members who are in education or employment. Workshops include: Improvisation, Characterisation, Voice Work, History of European, American and Irish Theatre, Movement, Script Study and specialist workshops from visiting theatre practitioners.
Members will also take part in a variety of exciting productions throughout the year. Previous Galway Youth productions include 24 Hour Theatre, The Trial, Portia Coughlan, Animal Farm, Our Country’s Good, Teacher, The Crucible, Autobahn and Philadelphia Here I Come!, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream. For the 2009 Galway Arts Festival Scarborough by Fiona Evans & DNA by Dennis Kelly.
On completion of year one members have the option and are encouraged to continue to year two.
Further information on the course, fees and application forms are available from Galway Youth Theatre, Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick St 091 566313/565886 or email siobhan@galwayartscentre.ie
The deadline for applications is Thursday 17 September.
Galway Youth Theatre
Presents
‘Scarborough’
By Fiona Evans
An electrifying portrayal of a dangerously charged romance between a fifteen-year-old and their teacher. Step into a faded hotel room where a couple is having an illicit weekend away. Amidst the peeling wallpaper, they laugh, quarrel and make love, but they don't dare go out. After all, at just fifteen years old, one of them is just a child. . . the other their teacher.
Directed by Andrew Flynn
This site-specific production will run at
The House Hotel from Monday 13th July to Saturday 25th July at
5pm and 8pm
Tickets from Galway Arts Festival Box Office. Limited seating so early booking is advisable
No Sunday Show
Galway Youth Theatre
Presents
‘DNA’(Deoxoribonucleuicacid)
By Dennis Kelly
Deoxyribonucleic Acid. DNA. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. When a high school "it" gang takes a joke too far, a lonely and terrified boy is lost. . . isn't he? Calling up contemporary media obsessions with 'real life stories' and dodgy old men with rotten teeth, Deoxyribonucleic Acid is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very, very dark heart.
Directed by Niall Cleary
Costumes by Petra Breathnach
Lighting by Adam Fitzsimons
The production will run at the Nuns Island Theatre from
Tuesday14th July to Saturday 25th July at 1pm
Tickets from Galway Arts Festival Box Office
No Sunday Show
Galway Youth Theatre
Present
A Midsummer Nights Dream
By William Shakespeare.
Directed by Max Hafler.
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
The world is in chaos. The climate is changing, and the seasons are askew. An uneasy peace has settled on Athens after a war. In the forest, Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the Fairies, still argue bitterly.
Part comedy, part philosophical treatise on the power of the imagination, Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comic nightmare ride through the intense emotions, delusions and trickeries of love and infatuation , as human souls blunder into the dark forest , and, beset by magic spells, become unwitting accomplices in the war between the Fairy King and Queen.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it could be argued, is Shakespeare’s most original play, as very little of the plot has a source elsewhere. . Whilst it is often understood to be a companion piece to Romeo and Juliet, and shares the theme of love, it contains a much darker cynicism than the equally famous tragedy and much more humour.
Directed by Max Hafler, and performed by members of the Galway Youth Theatre, whose previous collaborations with Cuirt have included The Midnight Court and The Trial, both of which were highly acclaimed.
The Set design is by Mary Doyle, the Costume, by Aine Lawless. The Sound design and Music is composed by Aranos the Lighting designer is Pat O’Reilly.
The Show will run at Nun’s Island Theatre from Monday 20th April to Sunday 26th April at 8pm.
For Tickets call Galway Town Hall Theatre 569777
Tickets cost €15/€12
Productions 2008
Chatroom by Enda Walsh
Some Girl(s) A Romantic Comedy by Neil La Bute
Crestfall by Mark O'Rowe
