Kilkenny Youth Theatre has been developing a reputation for its innovative choice of plays and excellent production standards! Having carefully chosen the script for their main production in 2009 the KYT senior members (13-18 year olds) have been rehearsing since January.
Burying Your Brother in the Pavement by Jack Thorne is a vibrant and provocative play about grief, family, love and growing up.
Tom’s brother Luke is dead, killed by a broken bottle to the neck. They were never friends. It’s an odd decision to try to bury Luke in the pavement… at the point where he was brutally murdered. 

Runs in The Barn from 22 - 25 April

This sparkling new play by Ken Bourke, is best suited for children aged 4 - 7 years. Little Rudolf is the story of a young reindeer who discovers he is discovers he is different from everyone else. Despite the best of intentions, his parents only manage to complicate the problems their youngster has to face. Rudolf sets off by himself into the unknown. With humour, compassion and a touch of magic, we follow him and his family to the realisation that the best way to deal with difference is not only to acknowledge it, but also to embrace and celebrate each individual as someone with a unique gift for the world.

Martha doesn't like anyone. She's a grumpy reclusive woman living in a hut on the beach. She scares people away with her sharp tongue and her "Keep out" signs, but she doesn't bank on meeting an endearingly cheeky goose who can't read and understand "No". The battle that ensues is full of fun and pathos and leads to a friendship that re-kindles in Martha a warmth towards those around her.

Silly Bits of Sky is suitable for children aged 7 - 11 years. The play, written by Maeve Ingoldsby, is about a group who hang out near the old pier and frequently indulge in ritual slagging matches. Lanky Murphy hates being teased about her height. Deggsie is fiercely sensitive to being slagged about his family circumstances. When his boast of having a brand new sleeping bag with a hood is challenged by Spider as "spoof" the lies snowball and Deggsie realises he will have to produce the sleeping bag or be found out.

Deggsie's desperate efforts to part-borrow, part-earn the money he needs leads him to doing some work for Lanky's granny, a feisty but insightful woman with whom he forges an unlikely friendship. But with his light-fingered and spacey brother Petey causing chaos wherever he goes and his mother's failure to understand how important the sleeping bag is to him, Deggsie's plan go awry. The only solution to his problem would mean betraying the trust of the one person who understands him...

Barnstorm commissioned this play from Shaun Prendergast and it premiered in 2006. It is suitable for children aged 8 -12 years.

Jonty has moved to a new area. His parents are overprotective and confine him to the back garden. When Mickser comes over the wall en route to a fair, Jonty gets the whiff of adventure. At the fair the boys meet Nadia, who is also there without permission. The three adventurers go treasure-hunting on a half sunken boat but when they find the remains of Captain Flint, things get hairy! Thats the trouble with adventures; they often turn out to be darker and more dangerous than you ever expected and when Jonty is accidentally stabbed in a crocodile incident, Mickser and Nadia have difficult choices to make...

Written by James Butler, this play for children aged 7 - 12 premiered in Kilkenny in 2005.

Andy is stuck. His parents have split up, he won't play with his best friend and he is being bullied in the playground......by a girl! Things change when his father returns to look after him for a few days. As they start to re-build their relationship, Andy's confidence grows. Before long, he's ready to tackle his troubles and fears, with surprising  results.....

This compassionate, insightful and richly humorous play gently illustrates the pain of seperation, the politics of the playground and the extraordinary power of the imagination.