Young Critics
Young Critics 2010
This year there are sixteen young critics from youth theatres all around the country participating in the programme. They will come together twice in 2010. They have already met for their first weekend when they attended performances of MacBeth at the Abbey Theatre and Les Liaisons Dangereuses at The Gate. They attended workshops with Dr Karen Fricker, international theatre critic and Alan KIng, NAYD's Youth Theatre Officer.
Young Critics' Panel
The next event for the Young Critics will coincide with the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. The critics will attend three productions and then discuss the shows they have seen at a public panel discussion on October 10 in the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Date: Sunday 10 October
Time: 12pm
Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
Admission is free and all are welcome!
Read what the Guardian's Mark Fisher had to say about last year's Young Critics' Panel.
Young Critics Programme
The Young Critics Programme is part of NAYD's commitment to developing youth theatre members' awareness and appreciation of the aesthetic of theatre.
The Young Critics Programme brings youth theatre members together to:
- attend workshops in the critique of professional theatre;
- attend professional performances at leading Irish festivals;
- give their own critiques of the performances at the Young Critics Panel.
The Young Critics Panel takes the form of a public discussion forum and has taken place in October for the last number of years, as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.
Young Critics 2009
In 2009 eighteen Young Critics spent a year seeing professional theatre productions and honing their critical skills in workshops with professional theatre critic, Dr. Karen Fricker and NAYD's Youth Theatre Officer, Anna Galligan. They attended five productions in total:
- Rough Magic's Solemn Mass for a Full Moon In Summer;
- The Abbey Theatre's production of Comdedy of Errors.
and three productions in the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival:
- Druid's The New Electric Ballroom, by Enda Walsh;
- DV8's To Be Straight With You;
- Hotel Modern's Kamp.
The Young Critics Panel took place in early October as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
If you missed it, read what the Guardian had to say about it in their blog:
www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/oct/15/dublin-theatre-festival-audience
Grainne Moriarty, one of the 2009 participants, provides an insight into what it is like to be a Young Critic in a recent blog entry.
Details of the 2010 Young Critics programme will be posted soon.
