Kilkenny Youth Theatre

Following last year’s successful run of XIV, Barnstorm’s Kilkenny Youth Theatre return to Ionad Dara, Goresbridge with their annual production. This year they bring their version of William Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth to the stage. Macbeth tells the story of theRead the Rest…

After two years of working online, Barnstorm’s Kilkenny Youth Theatre were back in person and delighted to bring their production of XIV (Fourteen) to a live audience. Originally devised by Sharon Cromwell and Droichead Youth Theatre, XIV is set inRead the Rest…

‘I am not a child, I am nearly thirteen!’ – Alice Barnstorm’s Kilkenny Youth Theatre presents ‘Alice in Wonderland’, Lewis Carroll’s much loved children’s story. The senior members have enjoyed re-imagining the much-loved characters and setting their production in theRead the Rest…

When you’re seventeen every experience feels life changing – and then life goes on.  Taking a break from the classics, Barnstorm’s Kilkenny Youth Theatre presents their inaugural piece of devised theatre ‘There is Only Now’ with a cast of 23Read the Rest…

In April 17, a cast of 20 bounded their way through Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. A play about the madness of love in all its different guises, 1967, the Summer of Love seemed a perfect setting for this colourful production with its own live music played by ‘The Shakes’ – a take on Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club band…

In April 2016, 18 members of KYT took on quite a challenge – four Greek Tragedies in one, looking at the family of Oedipus, from his banishing of The Sphinx, to his exile, to war between his sons, the death of his daughter, Antigone and the resulting downfall of his brother-in-law, Creon. Was all of this his fault or were the gods punishing him for some sin unknown to him. Is a man guilty if he is not aware he is committing some of the most vilest crimes imaginable…

In April 2015, 21 members of KYT combined the mad and nonsensical worlds of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland and Looking Glass. In our version, Alice is 12 and ½ years old and it bothers her to still be thought of as a child. Why do all these other people get to make the decisions, confuse her and boss her? After all, she is nearly thirteen.

In May 2014, fourteen members of Kilkenny Youth Theatre tackled The Bard…and they won! A tale of death, woe, love, hate, passion, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ gave plenty of scope to explore the extremes of human emotion. And also gave this young cast a chance to battle a language and speak it like they were born to it. They weren’t ‘acting’ Shakespeare, they were living breathing Montagues and Capulets.

In April 2013, sixteen members of Kilkenny Youth Theatre took a trip back in time, to when criminality, illegal booze, and brawls were in full swing. Taking on a slice of real history, The Prohibition, KYT explored the genre Film Noir. There was the private eye, the femme fatale, the gangsters, the molls and the hungry newshound. The audience was transported back to 1930’s New York and into ‘a whole heap o’ trouble’.

In April 2012, sixteen members of Kilkenny Youth Theatre brought the dark corridors of Gormenghast to life. A story of family responsibilities vs personal freedom, good vs evil, young against old and how murder, seduction and rebellion can rock traditions held fast for thousands of years to their very core.