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                                Playshare

                                Playshare is a curated compendium of plays suitable for youth theatre groups and available through Youth Theatre Ireland.

                                These include one-acts, issue-based dramas, comedies, classical adaptations, plus several pantomimes and musicals. All Playshare scripts have been written specifically for young people. They vary in length, content and style, and all have been produced by a youth theatre or similar group, at least once. Search for a play for your class or youth group from our library!

                                If you would like more information or to read a sample or full length version of a play in the collection, please contact National Programme Co-Ordinator Rebecca Feely. Please allow up to 7 business days for a response to your Playshare enquiry.

                                Access to read samples or full length plays is free, but you must contact the playwright to acquire the performance rights to produce the play (or scenes from it).

                                Find out more information about submitting a play to Playshare.

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                                Common Ground

                                Ireland in the not-too-distant future, where Celtic Tiger has become the Celtic Tip! Romeo & Juliet1

                                Crushing It

                                Childhood best friends, Cassie and Des, have always been there for each other. Especially when it1

                                Deano

                                A group of young people gathers at a derelict warehouse exactly one year after the disappearance of1

                                Debutantes Cabaret

                                This is the story of a typical end of sixth year debs dance. The difference is that it’s presented1

                                Departures

                                Sam and Karen are going on holidays and things are off to a bad start. The flight is delayed and1

                                Dog House

                                This is a tragi-comic piece, unsentimental and brave to the point of recklessness in its theme and1

                                Don't Shoot the Messenger

                                Ireland. Sometime in the near future. The Messenger sits and waits. She spends most of her days1

                                Don't Smile 'Till Christmas

                                A day in the life of a secondary school. A trainee teacher tries to “fake it til she makes it”.1

                                Dubs

                                A group of young housing activists take over the house of ‘The Dead’, where John Houston filmed the1

                                Eithne the Pirate's Daughter

                                A rip-roaring pastiche of all things Shakespearian, the play opens in an imagined time in the late1

                                Elizabeth and Mr Darcy? Discuss

                                Elizabeth & Mr Darcy? Discuss... is a choral play about love. It’s also about the Junior Cert and1

                                Escape

                                Drama
                                Eve and Calvin are friends. Both are having difficulty at home and have begun to take drugs to1
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