Part of the Gregory Project at the Abbey Theatre, a body of work celebrating the legacy of Abbey Theatre co-founder Augusta Gregory, Youth’s The Season – ? is director Sarah Jane Scaife’s version of Mary Manning’s 1930’s coming of age satire.
Commenting on the play, Sarah Jane Scaife said: “When I read Youth’s The Season -? I was really surprised at how different the world it presented felt… It was from a young, female, urban perspective. It was funny but in a caustic way, which felt very recognisable to me.
The sense of angst, boredom and frustration for what society had on offer to young women or young men who didn’t conform to the stereotype of Irish society, was familiar in a very real way for me. What is so interesting today is recognising that all the same frustrations, the fears of war, the anxiety of being different or not fitting in that are experienced by the youth today, are written into this play which was written by a young woman in her early twenties, in 1930.”
Scaife’s work on Beckett’s canon has always been enthralling and with a cracking young cast, including the rising star of Irish drama Ciara Berkeley, this looks like a winner all round.
April 2nd – May 3rd
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