Drama

Date: Saturday March 27th
Venue: Limerick The Honey Fitz --->---> directions below
Title: A Walk in the Woods
a full 5hr. process drama which explores the issue of teenage suicide.

see further information below

TIMETABLE:
10.30 -11am Registration TeaCoffee
11am- 1.30pm Workshop part 1
1.30-2.30pm Lunch
2.30 -5pm Workshop part 2
2 5 -5.30pm Feedback, Discussion & Farewells



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DIRECTIONS: The Honeyfitz is about a 25 minute drive fom Limerick city, near the town of Bruff. It is in the area known as Lough Gur which is well signposted from the city as it is a heritage area, but please note that the theatre is NOT by the lakeside where the visitor's centre is! If you get lost go to HOLYCROSS and ask for directions from the post office/service station, you will be less than 5 minutes away.

From Dublin - come into the city, take the south side ring road called the Childers Road (oncethe main dual carriageways and into the city environs you can follow the signs for Cork to lead you onto the Childers Road, but beware - do not take the main roads to Cork by-passing the city or you will be hopelessly lost!)turn left at the Killmallock roundabout onto the R512. Continue along the road for at least 20 minutes until you pass through Grange. You will come to HOLYCROSS there is a petrol service station next to a pub called Reardons, there is a left hand tun adjacent to the pub, do NOT take this, take the next left 200 metres along signposted towards Hospital.Take the first left (after about half a mile)and the theatre is down there on the right hand side after about half a mile.

From Tipperary: - Take the R515 to Emly then about a mile out of Emly turn right for Hospital on the R516.At Hospital turn right, proceed through the village and continue on the road out of the village.After about three miles there is a staggered cross, Herbertstown is on your right, you should turn Left for HOLYCROSS.Continue on this road for about two miles and you will come to the theatre on your left at a small crossroads.

From Cork:Take the N20 towards Limerick, at Rourkes Cross turn right towards Bruree, drive straight through the village and continue on to Kilmallock.At Kilmallock turn left, keep going, through Bruff, after Bruff travel straight on for a couple of miles then take a right hand turn (just after a bend in the road) signposted towards Hospital.travel along this road for about half a mile then take the first left, the theatre is half a mile down this road, on the right hand side.

It was devised by Andy Kempe who lectures in drama in the University of Reading. Andy’s introduction
to the drama states:

“This workshop explores the issue of teenage suicide. Its purpose is not to preach or
begin to pretend that there is a simple solution to this growing problem. Rather, it
looks at how people try to cope with the fact that teenage suicide is beyond their
control. The workshop has the potential to be disturbing and emotionally taxing but
there will also, I hope, be moments of laughter. However, rather than being flippant
or disrespectful to the victim or survivors of teenage suicide, the workshop endeavours
to find ways of representing how we come to understand difficult issues and
situations; sometimes this does seem to be through laughter and seeing the realities
of life and death as absurd.”

I believe this drama to be timely and worth exploring. In my opinion, it’s correctly
aimed at teenagers and is exactly what they would ask of us, as drama facilitators, to
come up with to address the issue of teenage suicide. As one teenager put it: “The
workshop gave me enlightenment into an area of life that normally would be left alone
and not touched.”