Support Programme

An evening of Playback Theatre on 8th March to celebrate International Women’s Day. Evening performance in the Set Theatre. This Playback Theatre performance was part of a programme of activities in Kilkenny to celebrate International Women’s Day.

In 2011 Barnstorm designed ‘Moving Up’ to look at the thoughts and feelings of 6th class pupils regarding the transition from primary to post-primary education, a crucial time in young people’s lives.

A collaborative drama project with Kilkenny-based visual artists Alan Counihan and Gypsy Ray, the pupils of Johnswell National School and Barnstorm’s Outreach Department in 2010.

Audience-led development of theatre The objective of the Create a Story project was to engage with our audience and include their creative input in the creation of a piece of Children’s Theatre alongside Barnstorm’s company of actors, musician, playwright, designer,Read the Rest…

Stereotypes – a devising programme with eight participants which ran during the summer of 2007. Choose who you want to be…

A unique community theatre project by, for and about women living in Kilkenny, culminating in a final performance piece of 8 monologues, in June 2006.

A Millennium Open Air Theatre Spectacle Celebrating Kilkenny’s Heritage and People. A fanfare rings out as a horse-drawn wagon pulls up to a platform at the centre of the massive medieval Priory at Kells. Banners fly from the walls andRead the Rest…

August 1998 Strolling players – travelling theatre groups in the Tudor period in England, who toured the country delivering theatrical performances. In 1998 Barnstorm, supported by Kilkenny Arts Festival and in partnership with ten local communities, presented Strollers, an outdoorRead the Rest…