Kinsale College

An improvised sketch devised by first year students of Kinsale Drama Course.

Red Handed is Wilbert W Lawrence’s savage indictment of ‘Normality’ and ‘things that are beige’. His fourth, and many think, his best play, Red Handed stretches and breaks theatrical conventions as if they are social conventions, in an attempt to undermine the foundati...

Tartuffe,

By Moliere

He’ll take Satan by the scruff and kick him out of the door

Wealthy business man, Orgon, invites the holy and pious Tartuffe into his home.

Orgon’s family aren’t so sure that Tartuffe is all he seems.

When Orgon offers the hand of his daughter, Marianne...

A short

film of a class exercise.

Sleeping Giant was devised by first year students as part of a mime and physical theatre project. It was shown to a group of mixed age children at Kilmeen School in West Cork in February 2019. This film is a record of the project.

History.

Once the drama course was established in Kinsale college in 2000, it quickly became clear that there was a problem with performing spaces. The college doesn’t have an assembly hall, and none of the classrooms were big enough to hold an audience. Initially, the...

Filmed by Jakub Walutek in the Stack Theatre Cork, something About Jessica was devised in 2015.

Since 2014, Kinsale College Drama department has been pioneering a dynamic and revolutionary way of devising plays. In the past three years alone it has created 10 new plays,...

A class exercise, in which students played many different characters, using signifyers to change identities throughout the play. This promenade performance was attended by other students from the college on the Dock Beach Kinsale.

In drama classes and when learning to act, students, even in the safest, kindest, of situations, feel quite exposed. Students are up there on a stage in front of their peers and a director/teacher, and that can have individuals feeling extremely vulnerable. In such cir...

As an essential part of the play devising process, second year students begin by creating characters. By changing themselves physically, and with the help of a little costume, they've been discovering and exploring all kinds of strange and exciting human fauna.