Of adjunct theatre company called midnight youth theatre company. and through high school, i always did the school plays. i never got the lead roles, but i kind of was into it. butjenny davis, who remains a very good friend of mine, who s a theatre maker from perth of my parents generation, sort of wrote me a note one day and said, i m doing this version of love s labour s lost that has songs in it that someone else had written some years before. but we think the songs need to be rewritten, would you write the songs for it? we have a $500 budget, lovejenny. and it was on a card. you know, this is 1994. and i sort of thought, i don t know if i can do that, but if she s asking me to, she must think i can. but you were, what, 16? no, it was the year i turned 18. so i was 17 and a half. still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company that i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it.
Version of love s labour s lost when you were still a teenager. yeah. what was this for? well, i was very lucky. i went to a school that had a drama department. in fact, it had a sort of adjunct theatre company called midnight youth theatre company. and through high school, i always did the school plays. i never got the lead roles, but i kind of was into it. butjenny davis, who remains a very good friend of mine, who s a theatre maker from perth of my parents generation, sort of wrote me a note one day and said, i m doing this version of love s labour s lost that has songs in it that someone else had written some years before. but we think the songs need to be rewritten, would you write the songs for it? we have a $500 budget, lovejenny. and it was on a card. you know, this is 1994. and i sort of thought, i don t know if i can do that, but if she s asking me to, she must think i can. but you were, what, 16? no, it was the year i turned 18. so i was 17 and a half.
Version of love s labour s lost when you were still a teenager. yeah. what was this for? well, i was very lucky. i went to a school that had a drama department. in fact, it had a sort of adjunct theatre company called midnight youth theatre company. and through high school, i always did the school plays. i never got the lead roles, but i kind of was into it. butjenny davis, who remains a very good friend of mine, who s a theatre maker from perth of my parents generation, sort of wrote me a note one day and said, i m doing this version of love s labour s lost that has songs in it that someone else had written some years before. but we think the songs need to be rewritten, would you write the songs for it? we have a $500 budget, lovejenny. and it was on a card. you know, this is 1994. and i sort of thought, i don t know if i can do that, but if she s asking me to, she must think i can. but you were, what, 16?
I went to a school that had a drama department. in fact, it had a sort of adjunct theatre company called midnight youth theatre company. and through high school, i always did the school plays. i never got the lead roles, but i kind of was into it. butjenny davis, who remains a very good friend of mine, who s a theatre maker from perth of my parents generation, sort of wrote me a note one day and said, i m doing this version of love s labour s lost that has songs in it that someone else had written some years before. but we think the songs need to be rewritten, would you write the songs for it? we have a $500 budget, lovejenny. and it was on a card. you know, this is 1994. and i sort of thought, i don t know if i can do that, but if she s asking me to, she must think i can. but you were, what, 16? no, it was the year i turned 18. so i was 17 and a half. still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company
Town Hall Theatre Galway this week announced Lucy Birmingham, Tara Mackin and Noel Minogue as the three young people who will participate in the NASC Network Young Curators programme for 2023/24. Town Hall Theatre and its partner venues in the Nasc Regional Venue Network have teamed up to present a national festival across eight regional theatres - from Letterkenny to Tralee, from Galway to Dun Laoghaire - in June 2024, programmed by the team of young people selected through a nationwide open call.