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NAYD Young Critics Announced for 2016

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Youth Theatre Ireland Young Critics

A big thank you to everyone that applied for Young Critics. This year the number of applications was an even bigger increase on last year’s applicants. We got a record breaking 47 applications for just 16 places.

NAYD Young Critics 2011 at Project Arts Centre

We are happy to announce that the Young Critics for 2016 are:

Colm Maye Activate Youth Theatre
Jane Byrne CYT – CYT – Cabinteely Youth Theatre
Savana Bartual Smyth Cork Institute of Technology – CIT
Rita Havlin Donegal Youth Theatre
Meabh Hennelly Dublin Youth Theatre
Jack Synnott Droichead Youth Theatre

Louis Flanagan Droichead Youth Theatre
Pierce McNee Dundalk Youth Theatre
Patrick Joy Footsteps Youth Theatre
Clodagh Healy Free Radicals Youth Theatre
Kate Brady Gonzo Youth Theatre
Emily McGee Kilkenny Youth Theatre
Ryan Finnegan Leitrim Youth Theatre Company Carrigallen (LYTC)
Ciara Lummis Play YT / Fracture Youth Theatre
Mary Condon O’Connor Play YT / Fracture Youth Theatre
Mathew Whitehead Sligo Youth Theatre

The Young Critics will be coming together for the first weekend from April 22-24th.

The first two productions they will be going to see are :

The Plough and The Stars 2016 by Sean O’Casey . Directed by Sean Holmes at the Abbey Theatre.

Tina’s Idea of Fun by Sean. P. Summers. Directed by Conall Morrison at the Peacock Theatre.

International theatre academic and Toronto Star theatre critic Dr. Karen Fricker will work alongside NAYD’s own Alan King to explore the fundamentals of theatre criticism over the coming months.

The Young Critics will be making vlogs and writing reviews and you can follow their exploits here

Critique Diplomatique- A Young Critics Review

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Youth Theatre Ireland Young Critics

One of NAYD’S Young Critics from 2015, Thomas Caffrey, has written this very insightful review of one our shows from last year.

Droichead Youth Theatre Online

Drum roll please! Having had his skills finely tuned over the course of two intense weekends of NAYD’s Young Critics bootcamp, Thomas Caffrey returns with his review of the spaceadelic epic, Corps Diplomatiques, seen in the Project Arts Centre at this year’s Dublin theatre festival.

H.P. Lovecraft died in March, 1937. The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was unleashed upon the world in 1967. In 1997 Kula Shaker’s seminal Summer Sun EP ushered in a new era of woozy psychedelia. Corps Diplomatiques begins in the year 2027. Performed by an ensemble of French actors headed by the enigmatic Halory Goerger, Les Corps Diplomatiques offers us an invitation into the eyes of madness with no escape in sight. Appearing as the final performance of the Young Critics 2015 programme, Les Corps Diplomatique starts off with an intriguing concept; if we did meet aliens, how would we communicate? The answer…

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