Limerick Youth Theatre is a company of young performers, dancers, writers, designers, directors, producers and filmmakers.

 

We run a workshop/performance training programme over a two-year course of membership.

16-23 year-olds with talent and some free time on their hands are eligible for membership.

Auditions take place in September each year.

Information on joining can be found on "How to Join" on the main menu. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE FOR TO DOWNLOAD THE 2009 APPLICATION FORM!

 

What we do…

 

Weekly workshops with professional directors, actors, artists and technicians.

 

First Years:

October – December: Theatre History- from Greek Tragedy to contemporary styles

January – March: Performance -approaches to text, character, improvisation, physical theatre

March – May: Production Skills –lighting, costume, sound, writing…

Second Years:

October – December: Project 1 (in film/radio/performance art)

January – March: Project 2 (in film/radio/performance art)

March – May: Preparation for Summer Production

 

Summer Production, with a professional director and parts on and offstage for members.

July and August are spent rehearsing a full-scale theatre production, staged at the Belltable Arts Centre in late August. See

what we have been up to under "Past Shows" on the menu.

 

Outings to join in shows with other companies or see their work on stage.

Reduced rate tickets to shows at Belltable Arts Centre and Daghdha Dance Company. Performances in collaboration with

the Umbrella Project (street and site-specific theatre) and festivals as opportunites arise. See "Offstage Adventures" for

reports and images.

 

Work Experience in performance, costume, stage management...

Volunteer work arranged as needed at Belltable Arts Centre, Daghdha Dance Company, EV+A, Alternative Miss Limerick

and anything interesting that happens around here. Jobs include Performance, PR, Stage Management, Front of House.

Job perks are meeting artists and being part of the show! LYT also refers suitable performers for auditions in theatre, film

and tv as opportunities arise. When their busy careers allow, past members of LYT who go on to study or work in theatre

are hired as professional workers on LYT shows.

 

Outreach for people too young or too shy to join just yet.

Bringing up the next generation of youth theatre members one street at a time, Outreach Officer Ella Daly has set up two

projects in Moyross; the National Youth Council-funded Vlogging Project with Céim ar Chéim, where local girls are busy

making short films for BEBO pages on their mobile phones with filmmaker Emma Teck; and the Limerick Regeneration

and Irish Youth Foundation-funded Back to School Project with Corpus Christi National School, in which one class are

given weekly drama workshops by Workshop Leader (and past LYT member) Janette Madigan, for a whole school year. The

pupils set and follow their own artistic direction, teaching us how to teach them.