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Independent youth theatre (IYT)
is a Dublin based youth theatre of young people between the ages of 14
and 22 with even the slightest flair for the performing arts.
We believe in providing a safe and friendly
environment to foster the insurmountable talent that is becoming more
and more visible in young Irish performers.
We aim to produce a superhuman number of high-quality productions each
year in which our members can become familiar with every aspect of
putting on a show from fundraising to not saying "Good Luck" on
opening night.
We encourage teamwork and creativity as well as the development of a
multitude of skills including busking, interpetive dance and cleaning
up after rehearsals.
We work to build confidence as much as ability and most importantly, we
strive to achieve all this whilst having the most fun that is humanly
possible.
Projects and National Tours
IYT started up in 2004 with an aim to produce several projects a year
and tour around the country. Already we have participated in the
National Theatre UK Connections Festival four years running
and played The Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork The Riverbank Theatre,
Kildare, The Helix Space, Dublin, The Mill Theatre, Dundrum, The
Ark, Dublin and the Space, Sligo. We also developed a new work
for the Young Fringe Festival through an acting
intensive course designed exclusively for IYT.
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IYT is a dynamic and exciting young company.
With their festival of New Writing in April 2009 playing to full
houses in their unique venue featuring top quality plays written and
directed by their older members they have made their mark on Dublin
Theatre. Coming up we are thrilled to have had Killed by Curriculum by Shaun Dunne
selected from hundreds of submissions to play at the International Gay
Theatre Festival in T36, Parnell Square from May 4th-6th 2009.
Come along and get involved - summer school 09 The Life and Times
of Britney Spears the Musical!! I kid you not... June 22-25 th
IYT are
no strangers to theatre festivals though having performed in the Dublin
Fringe Festival in September 2005 and the
Fizzfest in the Helix in October 2005. IYT followed with the
premiere of The Spidermen by
Ursula Rani Sarma as part of theNational Theatre Connections
Festival 2006. We then participated in the NAYD Festival of Youth
Theatres in Limerick in July followed by the production, over an
intensive week long course in August, of You don't know Jack written
and produced by the members themselves. There followed a
Busking session in Grafton Street and a Bag Pack in Tesco to raise
funds for our
productions of Brokenville by
Philip Ridley and School Journey to
the
Centre of the Earth in the Mill Theatre, Dundrum on
December 5th. 2007 has seen us working with Kellie Reynolds developing
an original play The Birdhouse
and performing Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid
(DNA) for this years
NTConnections festival in Newbridge and Cork. Soon followed the
inaugral IYT Festival of Youth
Theatre from May 22nd - 26th in T36, Parnell Square at which
we premiered The Birdhouse
and also brought our production of DNA
to Dublin! 2008 has featured more great
things including the publishing of our first IYT Annual and an
invitation to devise a piece for Barnardos. (to be continued...)
The Independent Youth Theatre meet on Thursday
evenings off Grafton Street in their own unique venue. The young people
work as a company throughout the year and currently membership is
nominal with almost all costs being covered through fundraising
activity. They work hard and are treated like real performers, and are
fast becoming one of the most exciting young companies in the country.
How to join IYT
Auditions consist of a group workshop and
take place in September each year. We do take some new members on
during the year so if you are interested in joining but missed the
auditions please contact us on 01 496 8808 or
e-mail iytinfo@gmail.com .
We would particularily like to meet
people interested in the technical side; lighting, sound, stage
management.
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Interesting links:
National Theatre Connections Website - www.shellconnections.org
The National Association of Youth Drama - www.youthdrama.ie
Lots more interesting links can be found here - ITW Links Page
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