Draíocht is delighted to deliver the Spréacha Soar Festival for Children & Young People, an exciting week of 23 brand new shows inspired by young people from Dublin 15, aged just days old to 22 years old, the culmination of months of work and our project NEST.
WHAT'S ON FRIDAY 15 MARCH:
DOUBLE BILL #1
For Young People aged 15-17 years
10am & 12 noon / Draíocht Studio / Capacity: 50 per show
Grub
A Show for Grace
Created By Stephen Marriott
Mentored by Davey Kelleher
Performed by Sorcha Curley
Directed by Claire O’Reilly
Grace has every official Man U scarf since 2015. She has a Man U wheel on her chair. Saturdays are for dance class and kayaking. Wednesdays, midweek, is Carvery Day in the local pub. Tuesday is the best day though, the brightest day, because Tuesdays are when Grace goes dancing with her grandad.
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A Show for Ameerat
Created & Performed by Clare Monnelly
Directed by Claire O’Reilly
Ameerat has a code of conduct. She was taught these things. Don’t be disrespectful, and don’t let anybody disrespect you. Don’t let anybody talk down to you. Don’t get in fights. But if you have to fight? Win. She’s not a troublemaker. She only talks back when someone is asking for it. But today, they're all at it.
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DOUBLE BILL #2
For Young People aged 16-18 years
10.15am & 12.15pm / Main Auditorium Stage / Capacity: 50 per show
Sketches
A Show for Ajla
Created & Performed by Fionntan Larney
Directed by Claire O’Reilly
Sketches follows a day in the life of Ajla Ayubovic, a 16 year old student of Coolmine Community school. It's about her family, her classes, her hobbies, her art, and (most importantly) her cat Zuko. It's about her strength, her passion and her talent. Its outlines, images, tracings. Its moments in time. Sketches.
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Life is Ball
A Show for Divine
Created By CN Smith
Performed by Samuel Coyle
Directed by Claire O’Reilly
Life is Ball shows a man's efforts to inspire a team of footballers to victory at half-time in a cup final. At this point, when their game and lives could go in any number of directions, how can he find the words to propel them toward the right choices? What can he say that will turn them into winners?
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NEST is based on HOME THEATRE, an original idea by Marcus Vinicius Faustini (Brazil) and Kerry Kyriacos Michael (UK). Draíocht’s iteration, HOME THEATRE (Ireland), took place in 2018.
NEST is funded by ART: 2023, a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
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