YOKES
NIGHT
Award winning
Stay Up Late Collective in association with
Bear
Trap Theatre present
‘YOKES
NIGHT’.
Inspired
by true events in Dublin, 11th March 2015, the night all drugs were
legal for 24 hours. On this night of rebellion, young Harry finds
himself under the influence of the mysterious Saoirse. Wrapped up in
the ecstasy of their union, secrets are shared, and the stench of
bloodshed looms.
YOKES
NIGHT
is a new play by Irish writer Scott Lyons, a revolt against the
authorities that have castrated Ireland. It opens a discussion about
the profound impact Abortion Laws have on young people in Ireland
today, and the social obstacles of the young, broke and bored in
Dublin.
Stay Up Late and
Bear Trap Theatre fuse cut-throat dialect with stylized movement and
spoken word, forging a fresh, progressive theatre experience which is
unique to Irish Theatre.
Bear Trap’s
Jesse Briton comments:
“The
reason why I was initially attracted to Yokes Night in the first
place is because a lot of shows are trying to be Yokes Night. Trying
to be young, and relevant, and politically, and socially aware. Yokes
Night marries all of that with a really unique, original voice.”
3th-29th
August 2016 - 2.15pm
What
was the inspiration for this performance?
When
equal marriage rights vote was won in Ireland, this was a sign of
significant change in attitude in Ireland. The younger generation
were turning it's back to the Catholic Church's involvement within
government. For the past eight years, the young Irish generation have
been oppressed by the actions of it's government.
Many of my friends
have had to emigrate, and some have committed suicide – to me this
is a due to the failure of the State. This anguish that the young
generation in Ireland has is what caused me to write Yokes Night.
How
did you go about gathering the team for it?
I
wrote the play a year ago. From there, we gathered our team of actor,
producer and directors along the way. We all come from the same
Contemporary Theatre course from East 15 Acting School.
How
did you become interested in making performance?
From
frustration. I wanted to write a definitively Irish play that I've
been wanting to watch for the past number of years, but never have.
Most of the great Irish plays that question the status quo of the
country have been written decades ago.
Was
your process typical of the way that you make a performance?
Not
particularly. The play was born out of a poem written about an
experience I had on a night out in Dublin. From there, it formed into
many other plays before Yokes Night was finally conceived. Once in
the rehearsal room, we wanted to explore the text and action on stage
to as much as we could. We have two directors involved in the
project. Dimitris Chimonas works very visually as an artist on the
stage, while Jesse Briton is the half that works traditionally with
the text being performed.
What
do you hope that the audience will experience?
With
the fast-paced spoken-word element to the play, we want audiences to
come out entertained. There's many memorable lines to enjoy listening
to. However, because of the themes within the play, we want our
audiences to enter a conversation I feel to be pivotal right now.
Discussing what it is to be young in our current times within Europe,
and understand the consequences of having abortion illegal within a
western country.
What
strategies did you consider towards shaping this audience experience?
By
making a clear, simple story that can be enjoyed by everyone.
Do
you see your work within any particular tradition?
The
play follows some ways of European contemporary theatre, and
spoken-word poetry. Ultimately, it's a piece of Irish theatre for the
modern day.
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