Dublin Youth Theatre First Year One Act Festival 2009

DYT

Dublin Youth Theatre’s
First Year One Act Festival 2009

Week One Tuesday 7th April – Saturday 11th April

Week Two Tuesday 14th April – Saturday 18th April
Performances Nightly at 8pm

Booking dyt@iol.ie
(As space is limited early booking is advisable)

Week One
Previews Tuesday 7th April
Opens Wednesday 8th April – Saturday 11th April

The Invisible Girl devised by the cast and directed by Willie White

Willie White
Willie White has been Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre, since 2002 and is Artistic Director of DYT for a three year term from 2007-2009.
Willie is a graduate of UCD and TCD and where he read for Masters degrees in English and Irish Theatre. Before Project Arts Centre, he worked for RTÉ for four years, mostly on television arts programmes.
Willie is the current recipient of the Jerome Hynes Fellowship on the Clore Leadership Programme.

Park Bench by Ellen O' Sullivan directed by Alan King

Set over one day, Adam, Louise and Jen have some serious decisions to make about their love lives.

Strike by Alison Bryan directed by Alan King

Strike and Park Bench were originally written and staged as part of Tenderfoot, a transition year drama project between The Civic Theatre Tallaght, Storytellers Theatre Company and local schools. These two short plays reflect a very accurate description of teen lives.

Alan King
Alan was a member of Dublin Youth Theatre from 1991-1994. Since then he has co- founded Purple Heart Theatre Company, is a former Artistic Director of Bewley’s Café Theatre and an associate artist with Calipo Theatre Co.
Directing credits include: Rundown, The Indian Wants the Coombe, Never The Sinner, Bug, On An Average Day, Coyote On A Fence, (Purple Heart), The End of The Beginning, And They Used To Star in Movies, Rebecca’s Robin, Missing Football, Fireworks, (Bewley’s Café Theatre) Club Europa, Mind Your Fingers (Calipo/Giddy Productions) All Rhyme No Reason, The Midlife Crisis of Dionysus, Missing (DYT), Waiting For Ikea (Wicked Angels) and Festival, for Waterford Youth Arts.
As an actor he has worked with Passion Machine, Fishamble, Red Kettle, Rough Magic, Corn Exchange, Pan Pan, TEAM, Axis Ballymun, Civic Theatre Tallaght, and Purple Heart. He has worked extensively on TV and film.

Week Two
Previews Tuesday 14th April
Opens Wednesday 15th April - Saturday 18th April

Yesterday an Incident Occurred by Mark Ravenhill directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks

An intimidating gang of passionate young activists interrogate the audience about a brutal crime that took place the day before. But did it happen at all? Just who is sending all these text messages, posting these blog reports, making these emergency phone calls? As the stakes get higher and higher, and the cries for revenge grow more and more hysterical, the likelihood of any actual justice disappears and the prospect of bloody mob retaliation--against the "rotten eggs" who threaten "our" beautiful way of life--seems to be the only possibility.

Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Aoife is currently training as a director on Rough Magic’s AIB SEEDS programme. Directorial credits include DOG and THE FIRE TESTAMENT (Zelig Theatre), ALL DRESSED UP TO GO DREAMING (Pope Joan Theatre @ Edinburgh Fringe & Dublin Fringe), LA CASA AZUL (Mephisto Theatre @ Edinburgh Fringe & Dublin Fringe), MEPHISTO NEW HEAT: NEW PLAYS BY GALWAY-BASED PLAYWRIGHTS (Mephisto Theatre), GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (Mephisto Theatre), FOOTFALLS and NOT I (Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway). American directing credits include THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (Harvard University), SLAVS! (Harvard University), FAR AWAY (Harvard University), and TOP GIRLS (Harvard University). Aoife was also assistant director to Tom Creed on Rough Magic’s production of LIFE IS A DREAM. She is currently a script reader for Druid Theatre. Having founded Mephisto Theatre Company with four colleagues, she was Artistic Director of the company from 2007-2008. Aoife holds a BA in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University and an MA in Drama and Theatre Studies from NUI Galway.

East End Tales by Fin Kennedy directed by Kerrie Lindsay

Originally inspired by newspaper articles, developed by a group of young East Londoners and then shaped by playwright Fin Kennedy, East End Tales peeks into the lives of several urbanites to discover tales of loneliness and domestic violence but also unlikely friendships and hope. This DYT performance sets the play here in Dublin with the cast creating their own prologue and epilogue in which to frame the tales.

Kerrie Lindsay
Kerrie Lindsay-O'Reilly - Director: Holds a MA in Directing for Theatre, from UCD and a BA, Joint Honours Degree in Drama and Film and Television Studies from Brunel University, London.Director Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me at Mullingar Arts Centre and The Mill Theatre, Dundrum with Group X, February 2009; Production Manager Arabian Night, Dublin Fringe Festival 2008 with Group X; As Head of the Drama Department at The King's Hospital School (2002 - present), DIrector Tommy (Feb 2008), Grease (Nov 2006), Tea in a China Cup (Nov 2005).As part of the MA- Director, extract from The Maids, The Dance of the Tomboy, an extract from Tejas Verdes, an extract from Portia Coughlan.