The work experience offered at Limerick Youth Theatre through its Transition Year Theatre (TYT) programme will provide young people direct and supported experience in the business and art of theatre making. LYT will;
• Create a small company of Transition Year students from schools across Limerick city and county who will create and deliver a piece of theatre
• Train the participants, giving them an introduction to the area relevant to their interest, for example; performance, design or management
• Produce a piece of theatre with the Transition Year Company to be staged at a professional venue in Limerick
TYT Timetable 2019
Audition: Monday 28 January @ 16.30
Rehearsals: Monday 4 Feb – Fri 22 Feb (not including weekends) 09.00 – 16.00
Tech/Dress: Mon 25 Feb 2019
Shows: Tues 26 & Weds 27 Feb 2019
Venue: Dance Limerick
About the play: This is a Room by Dylan Coburn Gray
‘This is a play about the first eighteen years of your life and all the things you may or may not learn in that time […] It’s about how after those eighteen years you’re expected to know certain things, even though there isn’t a class. It’s about how that’s scary, even if you’re prepared. It’s about how lots of people aren’t, not even remotely’
Coburn Gray’s electric new play debuted at the Dublin Theatre Festival 2017; an astonishingly frank, intimate discussion about the complexities of growing up in 21st Century Ireland, the play, devised with the input of teenage members of Dublin Youth Theatre, looks at our individual human need to belong: to feel safe, to feel sheltered, in essence, to feel at home.
The play is experimental in its structure, being composed of a series of vignettes, short scenes ranging from comedic diologues to heartbreaking monologues to ensemble movement and chorus work. Up-and-coming Irish playwright, Coburn Gray has infused his play with both music and movement, in addition to direct audience address, giving the production an undeniably contemporary feel. This is a Room touches on themes of social anxiety and isolation, homelessness and direct provision, first love, family breakdown, mental health, and sexuality.