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Past Production
TEAM Theatre-in-Education:
Post-Primary Schools Programmes - 1975 - 2005
2005:
Devotion by Leo Butler
A gritty, humorous and provocative piece of theatre about conflict and
its impact on the lives of young children.
The 'Devotion' programme affords senior cycle students (4th, 5th and 6th year) an opportunity to examine their own attitudes to global conflict and in particular to explore the following questions:
What are the parallels between wars and the dynamics of peer group conflicts?
At what point does devotion to an idea, cause or principle become fanaticism?
What issues does conflict raise about gender identity?
2004: FUSION by Kevin Lavin in collaboration with TEAM
How important is it to have ideals?....When you're 17 or 27 or 70? Should
they define who we are and what we want to be? If life forces us to change
our goals are we selling out our ideals? And if we make a wrong decision
now could that affect forever what we become?
2003:
The Making of Antigone Ryan
Post Primary School Programme Transition Year/Senior Cycle
Written by Martin Murphy in collaboration with TEAM
Being a young distance runner in a modern city is never the easiest. Jo
Ryan is 16, the best female distance runner in her school, and the youngest
of a family of champion athletes, the Flying Ryans. She lives with her
elder brother Connor and her uncle, Sean, on a crumbling estate in the
centre of Dublin.
An enigma in her school, Jo Ryan has never bothered about anything except running. Troubles with her family, her club, her school friends are all left behind as she pounds the tarmac, striving to be the best every time she goes out to race. But there are some people that you can’t run away from. Some things that are more important than the law.
Drawing on sources as disparate as Hamlet, St. Joan and Run, Lola Run,
The Making of Antigone Ryan is a lung-bursting thrill ride where the imperatives
of Sophocles’ famous tragedy are played out in a world of late night
shopping, Odour Eaters and heroes made for TV. And where in order to truly
win you have to lose a little bit of yourself, every time.
2002:
Black Ice
Post Primary School Programme Transition Year/ Senior Cycle
Written by Thomas McLoughlin in collaboration with TEAM
See 1996 below
"The pupils still rant and rave about Black Ice. Those who did not
even see it have come and asked if it will ever come back."
2001: Burning Dreams
Post Primary School Programme Junior Cert/Transition Year
Written by Frances Kay in collaboration with TEAM
2000: Shapeshifters
Post Primary School Programme Transition Year/ Senior Cycle
Written by Nicholas Kay in collaboration with TEAM
In Shapeshifters a young woman artist finds an alternative way to define
herself in relation to the world around her - she makes herself her art.
Her quest for self discovery has major consequences for those around her,
notably her partner Ed who gradually becomes disillusioned with the way
she manipulates him for her own artistic ends, and eventually becomes
her fiercest critic. However Ed's eventual choice of an alternative way
of being begs questions about whether he is just looking for a life where
he doesn't have to think.
Shapeshifters was the first half of Ways2me, a double bill of plays by
Nicholas Kelly produced in conjunction with the Abbey Theatre. Ways2me
looked at different notions of identity and self definition, and asked
what it is that makes us who we think we are. The other part of the Ways2me
Programme, A Quiet Life, was performed in the Peacock Theatre.
1999: Burning Dreams
Written by Frances Kay in collaboration with TEAM.
For 2nd and third years in Post-primary. The play looks at the subject
of ideals. It focuses on the world of a "good" man burdened both by his
own sense of justice and his sudden capacity to change what he thinks
is wrong. "Dublin 1941. The war is raging on continental Europe. In the
slums of the inner city a young doctor starts work, unprepared for the
problems that confront him. Squalor, disease, hunger, death. The scale
of the suffering threatens to overwhelm him when suddenly, miraculously,
he is given the means to change people's lives for the better.... and
that's when his real difficulties start." (Teacher's Pack available online).
1998: Shoot the Butterfly
Written by Thomas McLaughlin in collaboration with TEAM.
This programme explores notions of identity and self-definition at times
of transition in life. It looks at the issue of responsibility, and examines
the implications for individuals, their loved ones and the world they
live in. Annabel is leaving school, leaving her adolescence, she's on
the brink of something important and yet nobody seems to have noticed.
Her parents have problems of their own, her friends don't seem to understand
where she is at and her beloved sister isn't there when she needs her.
She wants to be taken seriously as an individual. She needs something
to happen, something that's going to show them all she's somebody that
matters... and then she comes face to face with the eco warriors.
1997: Mirad - A Boy from Bosnia
Transition year/ preleaving Certificate.
Written by Ad de Bont.
Mirad is the harrowing story of how a family is torn apart by the war
in Bosnia, and how a teenage boy's quest to find his mother leads him
to experience the true horror of war. Mirad - a boy from Bosnia brings
students face to face with the true meaning of reconciliation and revenge.
1996: Black Ice
Post-primary school programme, Junior Cert./Transition Year Pupils.
Written by Thomas McLaughlin in collaboration with Team.
Black Ice explores the issues surrounding young people leaving home and
homelessness. The possibility of anyone becoming homeless is intrinsic
to the programme. In exploring the subjects of home and homelessness the
pupils' awareness of the extent and circumstances of homelessness is heightened
and stereo-typical views of homeless people are challenged. Black Ice
is presented with the support of the Combat Poverty Agency and Focus Ireland.
1995: Fixing Bill Haley
Post-Primary School Programme Transition / Pre Leaving Cert.
Written by Ken Bourke in collaboration with TEAM.
Fixing Bill Haley encourages pupils to consider work in a holistic way,
inviting them to look at their lives as a whole and to consider work as
one part of it. The programme explores different value systems in relation
to work and encourages pupils to develop a creative and imaginative response
to work.
1994: Out of Line
Post-Primary School Programme Transition/Pre-Leaving Certificate pupils.
Written by Maeve Ingoldsby in collaboration with TEAM
Out of line deals with changing concepts and patterns of work, and their
effect on the life choices people make. It explores attitudes to work
in a changing world and notions of success and the values of work, be
it paid or unpaid. The programme challenges our tendency to identify ourselves
and others in relation to the work we do and tries to find definitions
of work and measures of achievement more appropriate to the present climate
of high unemployment and frequent job changing.
1993: The Well
Post-Primary School Programme Transition/Pre-Leaving Cert. Pupils.
Written by Ken Bourke in collaboration with Team.
The Well explores the consequences for relationships within a family when
significant matters remain unacknowledged and undiscussed. It deals with
some of the pressures and problems associated with the transition to adulthood.
The workshop provides a framework through which the pupils can engage
in the themes of the play. A central theme of both the play and the workshop
is the need for relationships based on trust and talking openly with parents,
siblings or peers.
1992: Here Come Cowboys
Post-Primary School Programme Junior Certificate Pupils.
Written by Colin Teevan in collaboration with Team.
Here Come Cowboys looks at the games young people play. It explores how
young people exploit each other and how as people they can pick on the
weakest. The programme explores peer pressure, isolation, and the real
fears that young people have concerning the savage games that they play.
1991: Performers
Post-Primary School Programme Senior Cycle students.
Written by John McArdle, original Music by John Dunne.
Performers is an exploration of the search for spiritual values in the
post-modern world. While staying within the naturalistic mode it explores
in a metaphorical way the ideas of performance, ritual, religion and the
image making machinations of the media.
1990: Shadowtackle
Post-primary school programme Senior cycle pupils.
Written by Anne Barrett in collaboration with Team.
Shadowtackle is an exploration of the choices and decisions that confront
young people in the transition between the structured and predictable
world of school and the uncertain and rapidly changing world beyond. The
programme examines the pressures which affect and influence young people's
decision making.
1989: The Native Ground
Post- Primary School Programme Senior Cycle Pupils.
Written by Antoine O'Flatharta in collaboration with Team.
The Native Ground though based on the situation of Travellers in Irish
society, the play is not about 'itinerants'. It is an exploration of the
cautious interaction between some members of the travelling and settled
communities in an attempt to understand the basis for prejudice, fear
and antagonism and the processes that underpin them.
1989: Dreamwalker Post-Primary School Programme
Senior Cycle Pupils.
Written by Antoine O'Flatharta in collaboration with Team.
Dreamwalker is a play about the exploration of the role and importance
of imagination and creativity as primary ingredients essential for the
development of knowledge, understanding and the creating of new meaning.
Voyaging from the first primitive linguistic utterances of humankind,
on through the vast adventure of human discovery and knowledge, it culminates
in the year 2050.
1987: Heartstone
Written by Jim Nolan in collaboration with Team.
Set in a fairground, Heartstone investigates the struggle of four young
people to take control and responsibility for their lives in the face
of the forces which operate to frustrate them.
1986: Blindfold
Written by Neil Donnelly in collaboration with Team.
The subject of human rights is explored both at a personal and social
level. Blindfold was produced to mark the 25th anniversary of Amnesty
International.
1985: Gatherers
Written by Frank McGuinness in collaboration with Team.
Gatherers is set in the Phoenix Park in 1932, during the Eucharistic Congress,
and in 1979, during the Papal visit. Generations meet and pass, each member
telling their story. Their lives give personal shape to the destiny of
their country, its beliefs and bigotries, its loves and losses, its fears
and hates.
1984: Snap
Senior Cycle. A day long programme devised by TEAM, Snap explores issues
of mental health at home, in school and at work.
1984: Borderlands
Senior Cycle. Written by Frank McGuinness in collaboration with Team.
Borderlands is a programme on Southern attitudes to Northern Ireland and
on attitudes of young people in the North.
1983: Then Moses Met Marconi
Senior Cycle. Written by Bernard Farrell.
The Moses Met Marconi examines local and community radio in rural Ireland,
as well as attitudes to women at work. Underpinning the comic style of
the play there is a real exploration of the relationship between, on the
one hand peoples private lives and the quality of personal communication
their society encourages, and on the other the definition by practice
of public communication as evidenced by a medium like radio.
1982: Palach
Senior Cycle. Written by Charles Marowitz, adapted by TEAM, this programme
was about the control of the truth exercised by education and media, centred
on the death by suicide of Jan Palach, a Czech student protesting against
Soviet-block repression in his country.
1982: Jacko
Senior Cycle. Written and reworked as a Theatre-in-Education. Programme
by John McArdle. Jacko is a play about the relationship between a house-father
and a child in care, and an exploration of our attitudes to children.
The play represented Ireland at the International Festival of Theatre-in-Education
in London.
1981: Round and Round the Garden
By Jim Nolan.
1981: Not Just Yet
Post-primary school programme for Senior Cycle
By Art O'Briain.
Not just Yet and Round and Round the Garden form a day long programme
on social attitudes to physical disability and mental illness. The programme
was produced for the International Year of the Disabled.
1980: Seventy Percent Proo
By Art O'Briain.
Seventy Percent Proof explores the central place that alcohol holds in
Irish life, and the personal and social problems caused by alcoholism.
1979: Jacko
Written by John McArdle.
1978: Winners
(Post Primary) By Brian Friel.
Winners explores the relationship between an adolescent boy and girl.
1977: Handle with Care
(Post Primary) Written by David McKenna, Handle with Care explores life
after school.
1976: Same Sweat/Different Pay
Written by Jim Sheridan in collaboration with TEAM, Same Sweat/Different
Pay explores issues behind equal pay for women.
