SURGE Festival 2010
19th-25th July 2010, Glasgow, Scotland
Scotland's SURGE Festival is a yearly event which involves the creation and promotion of street arts, physical theatre, and circus on the streets of Glasgow. It is organised by the SURGE group.
2010 was the festival's first year and involved the participation of Kildare Youth Theatre, who - alongside Mischief La Bas - devised a piece called Conflux Maximus
Conflux Maximus
23rd July 2010, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland
For the 2010 SURGE Festival, Kildare Youth Theatre members devised at home a new play called Conflux Maximus.
Translated as the 'Greatest Confluence', the Roman-inspired Conflux Maximus involved charging down Glasgow's Buchanan Street with a crowd of about 60 people, as they rallied members of the public to join their march. This march culminated in a massive gathering at the Arches for a final 'gladiatorial showdown'.
The aim of Conflux Maximus and the SURGE Festival as a whole, was to shock and surprise Glaswegians by having these high-energy, spontaneous performances in the middle of the city.
Conflux Maximus was devised and performed by Sophia Ellis, Amy Quille, Molly Kiely, Eliza Kelly, Sarah Montunato, Anthony Davidson, Mary McDermott, and Thomas Hugh. It was directed by Peter Hussey.
NT Connections Festival 2010
22nd-24th March 2010, Moat Theatre, Naas
The National Theatre's Connections project consists of annual, specially written pieces for young actors across the UK & Ireland by leading British, Irish and international playwrights. The plays usually deal with edgy, political subject-matter in uncompromising and honest productions.
In the rare lapse of no new plays for the 2010 season, Kildare Youth Theatre instead performed classical Connections plays with all new casts. They were Sharman MacDonald's After Juliet and Fausto Paravidino's Nuts from Connections 2001 and 2002 respectively. This brought our total Connection performances to 27, with the two plays taking part back-to-back over three days.
Read more about the two plays below.
After Juliet
8PM 22nd-24th March 2010, Moat Theatre, Naas
AFTER JULIET PROGRAMME & PICTURE IN FOLDER
After Juliet, written by Scottish playwright Sharman Mac Donald for the 2001 NT Connections festival, is a pseudo-sequel to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a play Kildare Youth Theatre has performed on many different occasions.
After Juliet asks the question of what happens to the warring families of the Capulets and Montagues after Romeo and Juliet's deaths. Although based on Shakespeare's work, After Juliet features a much more timeless approach, and is not strictly bound to the 1500's like the former often is.
CAST:
The Montagues:
Benvolio: Garham Oates
Valentine: Colm Ivers
The Capulets:
Rosaline: Louise Lonergan
Bianca: Amy Quille
Helena: Niamh O'Rourke
Livia: Sarah Murdock
Lorenzo: Paul Miller
Giani: John Cleary
Petruchio: Niall Moore
The Drummer: Sean Reid
The Musician: Jay Suen
The Nurse: Niall Linton
Directed by: Vincent O'Reilly
Lighting: Colim Ivers & Keith Burke
Nuts
9PM 22nd-24th March 2010, Moat Theatre, Naas
