23 April 2020

Youth Theatre Ireland Vetting Service Reopens on April 27th in Fully Digital Format

Youth Theatre Ireland had to suspend our vetting service since the 13th March due to the team working from home and not being able to implement our usual ways of processing vetting applications securely. As the situation with COVID-19 is ongoing and so many of you are working online with your groups, we want to be able to support you to the fullest at this time and so have relooked at how best we can reinstate the vetting service.

22 April 2020

National Playwrighting Project ARTiculate to Proceed Online

Youth Theatre Ireland is delighted to announce that its pilot national playwriting project, ARTiculate will proceed online. 21 participants working under the mentorship of Veronica Coburn, Dylan Coburn Gray and Barry Morgan joined for their first workshop on Saturday, 18 April. This initiative is in association with the National Youth Theatre programme.

21 April 2020

Programme Announcement – Cancellation of National Festival of Youth Theatres

The Board of Directors and staff team of Youth Theatre Ireland are sad to announce the cancellation of the National Festival of Youth Theatres 2020, which had been scheduled to take place from 30th June – 5th July.

07 April 2020

Youth Theatre Ireland Announce ‘Young Critics Online’

To celebrate the announcement of the 2020 panel of Young Critics, Youth Theatre Ireland present ‘Young Critics Online’ for young people aged 16 and over. You can enter by sending a review of a performance you have seen recently or of a performance that you view online.

03 April 2020

Safety Tips for Working with Young People Online

Due to current circumstances, we all find ourselves working remotely and communicating a lot more online with young people has become the new norm. Youth Theatre Ireland have issued guidance on working safely online to affiliate youth theatres. Some helpful tips are summarised here for general use.

31 March 2020

Introducing Youth Theatre Ireland’s Young Critics 2020

The response to Youth Theatre Ireland’s call out for Young Critics this year was phenomenal. We received 45 applications from youth theatres all across the country. The standard of application was exceptionally high and we were lucky to be able to select 16 young people with a broad range of youth theatre experiences.

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