Join the staff of youth Theatre Ireland for their yearly wrap up!
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After an extended break, Intermission Podcast is back with this extended episode.
The Young Critics Panel at Dublin Theatre Festival.
This is an edited version of the Young Critics Panel discussion held at Project Arts Centre, Dublin on Sunday October 12th 2025.
Dr. Karen Fricker chairs the panel discussion around three productions:
Nowhere by Khalid Abdalla at Project Arts Centre,
Caligula by Albert Camus at Samuel Beckett Theatre
Three Sisters By Anton Chekhov, Adapted By Ciara Elizabeth Smyth at Gaiety Theatre
Includes a selection questions and answers from the attending audience.
This podcast is supported by the Arts Council andThe Department of Education and Youth.
In this very special podcast, we revisit an edited interview Alan King, Deputy Director of Youth Theatre Ireland, conducted with Paddy O’Dwyer in 2021.
Paddy passed away in August 2024 and is very sadly missed by family, friends and those closest to him. He is also sadly missed by his massive extended families in the worlds of youth theatre, professional and amateur theatre. This extends not only across the island of Ireland by the whole world.
Paddy was an educational psychologist, actor, director, father, husband, grandfather. He founded Dublin Youth Theatre in 1977, was President of the International Amateur Drama Association and he co-founded the National Association for Youth Drama, (now Youth Theatre Ireland) in 1980.
In this chat Alan had the opportunity to ask Paddy about the founding of Dublin Youth Theatre, the formation of NAYD, and where he saw youth theatre at the tail end of 2021.
Huge thanks to filmmaker David Christopher Lynch for facilitating this conversation which formed the basis of his short Documentary celebrating 40 years of Youth Theatre Ireland. Thanks to David for sharing his recordings, which form the basis of this edited interview.
Fittingly this interview took place in the then temporary premises of Dublin Youth Theatre in Montague Lane.
Please enjoy this conversation.
You can watch David Christoper Lynch’s documentary here:
In this edition of the Podcast, Deputy Director Alan King leads a conversation over zoom on the Youth Theatre Members Survey 2025.
As part of our Membership Renewals every year we ask our embers to complete a comprehensive survey around how their youth theatre operates. This survey is vital for us to respond to the needs of our members and plan accordingly.
In this podcast we are joined by Eoghan Doyle (Director), Cathal Thornton (Child Protection and Wellbeing Officer) Barry Morgan (Special Projects Officer) and Rebecca Feely (National Programme Co-ordinator).
Very special thanks to our contributors Christana Matthews (Droichead &Cabinteely YT’S), Carmel Ryan (Clare County Council, Clare YT), Maria O’Sullivan (Glengarriff YT), Sarah Bragg Bolger (Dublin Youth Theatre), Özer Gokman (Sligo YT), Catherine Sheridan (Roscommon Co. YT), Anthony Kinahan (Act Out YT)
We referenced our conversation with Léargas. You can listen to this in full at the youth Theatre Ireland Podcast Episode 10
Catch all the news you need to know about Youth Theatre Ireland and then settle in for our Young Critics Panel as they discuss the shows they saw.
Luke Casserly Youth Theatre Practice Symposium- Developing Sustainable Practices in Youth Theatre
https://youtu.be/rbT8arJEYoY?si=9SwMffWXVV9iC0Xs
Alex Konieczka Youth Theatre Practice Symposium- Developing Sustainable Practices in Youth Theatre
Join us for a (not so brief) whistle stop tour of everything we got up to in 2024!
We're back with some information about our upcoming Symposium (Info and Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/developing-sustainable-practice-in-youth-theatre-a-yt-practice-symposium-tickets-1009122912797?aff=oddtdtcreator)
Then we have Dave Kelly as we celebrate ten years of his book Laying the Foundations.
Enjoy!
Record at the National Festival of Youth Theatres in Kilkenny, we are joined by Suzanne and Kay from Léargas as they talk us through the vast amount of opportunities that are out there for Youth Theatres.
Live From the Bronks Theatre in Brussels, Barry and Eoghan take you through this months news followed by The Big Chat with our friends from The BUZZ Network. ( https://www.buzznetwork.eu/ )
All the news you need to know as well as a chat with Alex from Understory about sustainability in Youth Theatre. (www.understory.ie)
Introducing a new segment - The Big Chat! We talk to Rebecca Feely about the Creative Residency Programme.
On this pre-recorded podcast the Youth Theatre Ireland team, including former Administrator Joanne, talk about how they got involved in youth theatre.
In the latest episode of the Intermission Podcast, Rebecca Feely gives us an overview on the Young Critics application process. We will be opening the applications soon, and we want to take the uncertainty out of applying. Please share with your members.
The Youth Theatre Ireland team also takes a deep dive on the Membership Survey 2024.
Did you know that 60% of our member youth theatre groups had an overall increase of members in 2023?
Or that only 22% of groups have contact with their local County Councillor?
We examine these stats and more in detail and offer advice and tips on how best to increase visibility, funding and committee building.
Hosted by Youth Theatre Ireland’s Director, Eoghan Doyle with contributions from Deputy Director Alan King , National Programme Co-ordinator Rebecca Feely , and Administrator Joanne Heffernan, this extended edition of the podcast is a must listen episode.
Packed with information, it will set you all nicely up as we embark on our first Youth Theatre Online session for 2024…
Our final intermission for the year!
Playshare, NFYT and an exciting opportunity to join the YTI team - all in this month's edition of the Intermission Podcast!
Youth Theatre Ireland's Director/ CEO Eoghan Doyle hosts this month's edition.
Eoghan has news and insights on opportunities including Membership Renewal 2024, The Youth Theatre Practice Symposium, Member's Audition Clinics, The Facilitator's Directory and the Young Critics Panel.
The Young Critics Panel at Dublin Theatre Festival.
This is an edited version of the Young Critics Panel discussion held at Project Arts Centre, Dublin on Sunday October 8th 2023.
Dr. Karen Fricker chairs the panel discussion around three productions:Somewhere Out There You (Nancy Harris & Wayne Jordan, Abbey Theatre), Distillation (Luke Casserly, Goethe-Intitut) and Out of the Blue (Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere, Project Arts Centre).
The conversation then extends to questions around what constitutes theatre, what the young people have learned during the programme and how theatre can be more accessible for young and disabled people.
This podcast is supported by the Arts Council andThe Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
Welcome to the first episode of the Intermission Podcast where we bring you all the youth theatre news you need to know!
Welcome to this podcast hosted by members of Young Critics. Young Critics is a programme set up by Youth Theatre Ireland in which 20 youth theatre members from around the country aged 16 to 20 learn awareness and appreciation of the aesthetic of theatre, and how to describe, analyse and judge it.
The Young Critics members recently watched 2 productions done by Outside the March Theatre company, which were part of a 4 piece anthology called The Stream You Step In. In this podcast, 4 Young Critics members examine one of these pieces, called The River of Forgetfulness.
If you would like to follow Outside the March, you can find their website at outsidethemarch.ca.
This was a podcast done as part of Youth Theatre Ireland’s Young Critics programme. You can view Youth Theatre Ireland’s Website at youththeatre.ie, and the Young Critics blog at naydyoungcritics.com.
Music Credit:
"Late Night Radio" Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: by attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/