Outreach: Dancing at Lughnasa (2012) by Brian Friel
Theatre in Kilkenny; theatre history; Irish theatre; performing arts; theatre training; community theatre;
In 2007 Barnstorm restored its theatre training for adults with the inception of its Adult Theatre Club; a two-year programme to explore and create theatre with a professional theatre company.
Weekly workshops provided specialist training in theatre-making skills: acting and performance skills, Stage Management, Design, and Directing. Members directed each other in monologues or script excerpts and presented a production to the public in The Barn Theatre.
The Adult Theatre Club members went on to join the Barn Owl Players, an innovative amateur theatre company. BOP has a full and varied annual programme of training and productions in The Barn, the Watergate Theatre and other local venues.
Dancing at Lughnasa was the first major play mounted by the BOPs
Barnstorm Theatre Company
Kilkenny County Library, Local Studies Department
Nuala Roche
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Community: Create a Story (2009-10)
Theatre in Kilkenny; theatre history; children's theatre; performing arts; Barnstorm Outreach; schools outreach; writers in residence; writers in schools;
Barnstorm's objective of <em><strong>Create a Story</strong></em> was to engage with its children's audience and include their input in creating a piece of theatre, alongside Barnstorm’s creative team. <br /><br />The project is a partnership with <strong>Poetry Ireland</strong>’s <em>Writers-in-Schools Scheme</em>.<br /><br /> Writers Martina Murphy and Terry McDonagh explored the art of writing and developing pupils' writing skills, with 4th and 5th classes of four Kilkenny schools (St Canice's Co-Ed, Kilkenny; Marymount NS, The Rower; Scoil Naomh Bhríde, Ballyragget and Scoil Bhríde, Paulstown).<br /><br />The culmination of the writing and devising stages of this project was a <span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">dramatic presentation called </span><i>Lost in the Forest</i>. I<span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">t</span> was presented in The Barn in 2010.
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Kilkenny County Library, Local Studies Department
Nuala Roche
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Community: The Spooky Feast in the Scary Field (2010)
Barnstorm outreach; Kilkenny theatre; Kilkenny arts; performing arts; community theatre; community arts; schools outreach; heritage project; arts project;
Barnstorm's Outreach department was invited to collaborate with visual artist Alan Counihan, along with Johnswell National School, on the drama element of Alan Counihan's <b><i>The Townlands Project.</i></b><br /><br /><span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">Barnstorm worked with pupils in the school to create a theatrical piece based on Alan's aim to connect local people to their local landscape. </span><br /><br /><strong><em>The Townlands Project</em></strong> is a community-based exploration of nine townlands in Rathcoole civil parish. It <span style="float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">led to the development of the </span><a style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:underline;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;" href="https://kilkennyheritage.ie/2017/08/kilkenny-field-name-recording-project-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kilkenny Field Name Recording Project </a><br /><br />Read more about the drama project: <a href="https://barnstorm.ie/townlands-2010/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Spooky Feast in the Scary Field</a>
Barnstorm Theatre Company
Kilkenny County Library, Local Studies Department
2010
Nuala Roche
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BTC_2010_TSFITSF_Ph01
Kilkenny, Ireland - 2000s