The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children and Dublin Fringe Festival 2007 present
Grounded
| Dates: | Wednesday 12 – Saturday 22 September | ||
| Times: | Schools Fifth and Sixth Class |
10.15am | 14/17 – 21 Sept |
| Schools First and Second Year |
12.15pm | 12–14/17 – 21 Sept | |
| Public | 3pm | 15/22 Sept | |
| 7pm | 13/15/22 Sept | ||
| Duration: | 1 hour | ||
| Age Range: | 11 – 14 years | ||
| Class Range: | Fifth and Sixth Class, First and Second Year | ||
| Prices: | €6.50/€4.50* (Schools) €9 / €7** (Public) | ||
| * price
for designated disadvantaged schools and schools travelling from
outside Dublin ** price for students, senior citizens, the unwaged, those parenting alone and their accompanying childreno |
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What do you do when you fall from a great height
to a place you don't know?
Do you stay? Do you run?
Grounded is about a young man who is
stuck. After falling from the sky with a thud and experiencing the
first exaltations of freedom, he begins an adventure he doesn't really
want to go on. Set against a backdrop of uncertainty, he must survive
alone and find his way back to the world as an independent young man.
This new theatre piece celebrates the transition into adulthood as
a journey, an adventure and a battleground of change. As part of the
Year of Childhood celebration, The Ark wished to provide a platform
and showcase opportunity as a way of supporting emerging talent. The
Ark facilitated Róise Goan to realise her proposal to write
and direct Grounded. In addition to providing the resources for this
new production, The Ark was able to facilitate
a period of development for Róise with 11 – 14 year old
schoolchildren through the Rites of Passage programme earlier this
year. This was a unique opportunity, facilitated by Jenny McDonald,
to connect the writer and audience to inform the process of this new
play. Grounded is performed by Jessica and Megan Kennedy of junk ensemble
and Stephen O’Rourke.
Teacher’s Corner
»Primary Curricular links: SPHE- Myself (Self identity), Myself and Others (Relating to others), Myself and the wider world (Developing citizenship).
»Post-Primary Curricular links: Classics syllabus, SPHE syllabus (Belonging and Integrating, Self-Management, Decisions, Sense of Purpose and Influencing) and CSPE syllabus (The Individual and Citizenship, The Community, Ireland and the World).
