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A Radio Drama series of 5 half hour plays about teenagers living in Waterford in 2020. The plays were developed and are performed by transition year students from St Augustines...
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A Radio Drama series of 5 half hour plays about teenagers living in Waterford in 2020. The plays were developed and are performed by transition year students from St Augustines Dungarvan, The Ursline, De La Salle College and Newtown School. They were written by Aoibhin Fallon and Directed by Liam Meagher.
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Youthquake
Youthquake
12 JAN 2021 · Sally is the school’s resident vlogger, who shares videos online of herself talking about average stuff, like tanning and music. After Jane punched her in the face for getting Ariana Grande tickets, the 2 manage to patch up their differences and they start to reconnect.
When Sally is contacted by the most popular guy in school, Luke Callahan, looking for nudes she doesn’t know who to turn to, and ends up confiding in her old friend Jane.
Can she use the power of her Vlog to take back the power and will she end up sharing a secret that could change her life?
12 JAN 2021 · Luke struggles with the fact that everyone in school hates him right now, without anyone knowing its him they hate. He doesn’t know what to do, so he does nothing. But when others start to get blamed for what he has done he knows he has to step up and stop something bad happening, but is it too late?
The finale of this 5 part story culminates in the Skate Park on a Friday afternoon. We know someone is going to die, but who will it be? And who is to blame?
Don’t miss this enthralling finale to Youthquake as friendships are tested and lives are changed forever.
12 JAN 2021 · Jane is Anna’s best friend who just cant keep a secret, after all it was her that ended up telling the Gardaí where Anna and Alan had run away to.
In episode 3 we get to know Jane, her big mouth and her big personality. She loves to talk and is not the best listener but her and Anna are best friends and they tell each other everything.
Jane is also the biggest Ariana Grande fan in the school. When she fails to get tickets to see her idol in concert and her arch enemy, Sally Smith, gets back stage passes, things come to a head, landing Jane in a whole heap of trouble.
12 JAN 2021 · After they ran away to spend the night together, and got caught by the gardai, Anna and Alan struggle to make their relationship work.
In episode 2 we focus on Alan, who is finding it increasingly difficult to deal with the fall out from running away with his girlfriend, while also dealing with his parents recent divorce.
He meets his father for chips on the prom in Tramore every week, where they try and connect surrounded by seagulls and garlic dip. Home life, with his mother and his younger brother is just as difficult and things reach breaking point.
When a rumour starts about him and Anna and a secret that they share, the pressure gets too much.
12 JAN 2021 · Anna Ryan is a 16 year old girl from Waterford who likes average stuff, like boys & make-up, hurling & music. She is addicted to her phone, hates school and wants out of this place some day, average girl, average stuff.
But what happens to her and her friends is not average and will probably change them forever.
When we meet Anna in episode one of Youthquake she is struggling to connect with her mother who, Anna feels, is trying to live her life through her teenage daughter.
When Anna discovers a secret about her mothers past she feels it is time to break out and make her own path.
But will she regret the decision that herself and her boyfriend Alan make? And will it change the course of their lives?
19 MAY 2020 · Ciara is everyone’s best friend, but she feels that her friends are constantly overlooking her needs, leading her to make a fateful decision on the night of Roisin’s party.
12 MAY 2020 · Eoin is a people pleaser who just goes along with what every one else wants. This has landed him in a messy love triangle that he doesn’t even know if he wants to be in.
He is also being bullied by a group of 6th years and the frustration that has been building for months eventually erupts on the night of Roisins party with tragic consequences.
5 MAY 2020 · Martha is a girl who knows how to get what she wants. But what she doesn’t want is all this extra attention from the substitute English teacher Mr Breen.
When he starts to slide into her DMs she knows she has to do something about it.
On the night of Roisins party she lets her desires and her selfish actions lead her and she ends up hurting her friends, especially the one person who has loved her all his life.
28 APR 2020 · Jack has been in love with his best friend Martha for years and doesn’t know how to tell her. He decided to skip TY and went straight into 5th year. All he wants to do is leave school and go work with his dad in his garage. His sister died in a car accident years ago and working in the garage is where he feels closest to his dad.
But on the night of the party Jack has his heart broken and ends up fighting with those closest to him.
22 APR 2020 · Episode 1 - Roisin is the self appointed leader of the group of friends. She used to date Eoin and when they broke up they remained friends and the group became “the gang”.
The gang all hang out in Jacks garage which they call The Pit.
Roisin, whose parents are quite well off, is going away to France for a month as part of TY and she decides to throw “the party of the year” at her parents house before she goes – one rule, no-one in the pool!
But in the days leading up to the party Roisin discovers something about her family, and her place in it, which throws her world up-side-down and makes her act out on the night of her party.
A Radio Drama series of 5 half hour plays about teenagers living in Waterford in 2020. The plays were developed and are performed by transition year students from St Augustines...
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A Radio Drama series of 5 half hour plays about teenagers living in Waterford in 2020. The plays were developed and are performed by transition year students from St Augustines Dungarvan, The Ursline, De La Salle College and Newtown School. They were written by Aoibhin Fallon and Directed by Liam Meagher.
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