IN a new and funded national training initiative, County Limerick Youth Theatre (County LYT) has partnered with Finnish theatre company Loimann teatteri to present Acting Out 100!
The 100! element is a reference to centenary significance: after four months work in a Participative Arts capacity, the project will culminate in a theatre piece invoking the Rising of 1916’s ripple effect in Knocklong village. We are promised “an immersive journey into the past”.
Acting Out 100! is a two year trans-national programme, creating opportunities “for young people to better understand the past as our countries commemorate two significant centenaries, the 1916 Easter Rising and Finland’s 1917 Independence”, reveals Fiona Quinn, arts facilitator.
The Knocklong Rescue took place on May 13 of 1919, for more see
http://www.politics.ie/forum/history/188405-knocklong-rescue-13th-may-1919-a.html
This Eramus + funded project will see c.30 teenagers from each of these rural theatre organisations in Ireland and Finland using drama to make plays that tackle issues around independence and the emergence of a republic. The perspective is European.
Work began in January for County LYT, using the ‘Rescue at Knocklong’ story as springboard to devise theatre. There will be a cast of 20 in the 70-minute finished piece. There’s a reach in to schools, hunts, ceilidh bands and locals to participate, pulling together to make up a sense of village life in Knocklong circa 1919.
Look to performance dates May 13 to 15 at a site to be confirmed.
