Youth Theatre is back! New day, new times…And a new location!

Bugsy Malone, 2020. An Grianán Youth Theatre. Photo by Paul McGuckin.

UPDATE: 27 Sept 2021: With the exception of the 4-7 year old group, all our classes are now fully booked. If you would like to be added to our waiting list to be notified when we open classes for booking again you can do so by sending an eMail here – use the subject line ‘Youth Theatre Waiting List’ and include name, age and contact details.

Good news! An Grianán Youth Theatre finally resumes regular classes again after our long, long Covid enforced hiatus. It’s all change with a new day, new times AND a new location.

All classes – that’s junior and senior groups – will now be on Fridays and we will be temporarily moving location to ZoNa Dance Studios until our new studio space is ready next year.

Our junior classes (ages 4 to 12) will be just after school time from 3:30pm to 5:30pm while our senior classes (ages 13 to 21) will be from 6pm to 9pm. Places on our junior classes are available on a first come, first served basis while we will as usual be holding auditions for our senior classes.

Junior Drama

Autumn Term – 12 week term
24th Sept to 17th Dec (no class on Fri 29 Oct)

Class Times
Ages 4 to 7: 3:30pm to 4:15pm Book now
Ages 8 to 12: 4:30pm to 5:30pm SOLD OUT

Only 12 spaces will be available in each class and will be available on a first come, first served basis.

NB: all classes must be booked in advance. Registration forms (which will be sent after booking a place) must be returned prior to commencing class. Booking opens on Mon 13 Sept at 10am.

Senior Youth Theatre

Auditions to join our senior youth theatre will be held on Fri 24 Sept at ZoNa Studios.

We will be holding small Covid safe workshop auditions of 30 minutes –  please prepare a short performance of no longer than one minute. 

You must register in advance to take part in the auditions.

Register now for your audition slot.

The focus for our autumn term is going to be on getting back to basics. It’s a long time since we’ve all been together in a room so we’ll be learning how to work together as a group again and recapping all those essential skills to get us ship shape for our big 2022 project, a full cast production of comedy drama The Gentleman Pirate, written by senior member Niamh Langan, which will be our show for Cruinniú na nÓg in June 2022.

Senior Youth Theatre Autumn dates and times
Fri 1st Oct to Fri 17th Dec (no class on Fri 29 Oct)
Intermediate*: 6pm to 7.30pm
Advanced*: 7.30pm to 9pm

*groups will be decided during auditions on Fri 24th Sept.

NB: if you are a returning member you are required to audition to rejoin.

Find out more about our youth theatre here.

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