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 SATURDAY 16 MARCH - EVENING PROGRAMME:
Cloud on a Thread
A Show for Baby Emily
Created & Performed by Little John Nee
Directed by Wayne Jordan
Emily is six weeks old. What does she need to know? She needs to know that there’s a cloud on a thread full of the names of people that she will one day meet. She needs to know that there are lullabies for days when she needs to sleep. And she needs to know that the birds in the sky are watching over her ready to show her the way to go.
I Start Here
A Show for Rebecca
Created & Performed by Terri Jade Donovan
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
I look down into my own sketchbook, and see faces I love, faces I’ve found on the internet, faces I’ve thought up in my head. They don’t mean much, but why is it supposed to mean anything? I Start Here questions what art can mean and what it takes to draw something real when the world is looking at you.
Launch Day
A Show for Cameron
Created & Performed by Amy Conroy
Directed by Wayne Jordan
It's launch day and everyone's buzzing. Especially Cameron's Deputy CEO. Whoever thought that Cameron would grow up to be Dr. Cameron. The Dr. Cameron! Dr. Cameron B! It's a family affair, the Deputy's on stage and Frank is helping out. It should be a day of celebration but things keep going wrong. Who's to blame and who will save the day?
Another Live Stream
A Show for Lee, Penny & Danila
Created By Paul Mercier
Performed by Kate Stanley Brennan
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
A student at the Technological University Dublin takes time out from her lectures to tell us how she has been getting on with the launching of her new music video.
Monaco
A Show for Amukela
Created By Dafe Orugbo
Performed by Dafe Orugbo & Ryan McCann
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
Monaco is an experimental musical about the life of a young F1 driver named Henry who is about to face the greatest challenge of their career. The story unfolds at the most popular and dangerous track on the F1 calendar, Monaco. Will Henry win big or crash and burn in the process?
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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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