Don't Smile 'Till Christmas
By Niall Cleary with additional scenes by Kel Menton
Age range
13 – 15, 16 +
Cast size
15 +
Approx. running time
60 – 90 mins
Gender breakdown
Male: 5
Female: 10
Also: Potential for chorus work and gender of lots of roles can change.
Female: 10
Also: Potential for chorus work and gender of lots of roles can change.
Setting
A Secondary School.
Note
A contemporary drama for a medium to large sized group.
First performance
Activate Youth Theatre, 2017.
Synopsis
A day in the life of a secondary school.
A trainee teacher tries to “fake it til she makes it”. Student’s lives collide. They fall apart, fall in love, lash out and are drawn together.
It’s Miss Elliot’s first day. Amar, the Syrian kid is new too. It’s the morning after the party the night before. Joy’s having a bad day and Captain Smooth has just fallen in love but Alice is avoiding him. Lives tumble together as students and teachers try to navigate the complex world of an Irish Secondary School.
This piece has the potential to be performed on site in a secondary school or is equally at home on stage.
Contains some strong language but can be adapted where appropriate.
This piece is based on a devised piece entitled “MOCK , a collaboration between Niall Cleary, Anthony Goulding and Droichead Youth Theatre.
A trainee teacher tries to “fake it til she makes it”. Student’s lives collide. They fall apart, fall in love, lash out and are drawn together.
It’s Miss Elliot’s first day. Amar, the Syrian kid is new too. It’s the morning after the party the night before. Joy’s having a bad day and Captain Smooth has just fallen in love but Alice is avoiding him. Lives tumble together as students and teachers try to navigate the complex world of an Irish Secondary School.
This piece has the potential to be performed on site in a secondary school or is equally at home on stage.
Contains some strong language but can be adapted where appropriate.
This piece is based on a devised piece entitled “MOCK , a collaboration between Niall Cleary, Anthony Goulding and Droichead Youth Theatre.