Publications
NAYD produces a number of publications to further support and develop youth drama theatre.
Step By Step Together: Drama and Development Education in the Primary Classroom
Step By Step Together is the second book in the the Step By Step Educational Drama Series. It is written by two of Ireland's most experienced educational drama practitioners, Joanna Parkes and Sarah FitzGibbon, and contains a new collection of educational drama schemes that have been tried and tested in the classroom.
For this book, the particular focus is using drama to explore development education in the primary classroom. Schemes explore topics such as fair trade, workers' rights, the environment, sustainable development and emigration.
As with the first publication in the series, Step By Step Educational Drama, the handbook format ensures that the schemes are easy to use and clearly divided according to specific classes and age groups.
Cost: 28 Euro plus 6 Euro postage
There is a special NAYD member rate of 18 Euro plus 6 Euro postage
How to order
You can order a copy by downloading the order form below and sending it with a cheque or postal order to: NAYD, 7 North Great George's Street, Dublin 1
Centre Stage +10 Report
The Centre Stage +10 report, examining at all aspects of current youth theatre activity in Ireland, is downloadable from the Research Page.
Step by Step Educational Drama: A Cross-Curricular Use of Drama in the Classroom
ISBN: 0954095324
Step By Step is an accessible and practical guide to bringing the new Irish Educational Drama Curriculum to life in your classroom.
Written by Joanna Parkes and Sarah Fitzgibbon, two of Ireland's most experienced drama practitioners, it contains a collection of their most popular and successful educational drama schemes, tested and delivered in over 21 primary schools from inner-city Dublin to rural Donegal. As a result these schemes have been enjoyed and appreciated by 70 teachers and over 2,000 pupils.
The approach is cross-curricular and the book is designed in an easy-to-use handbook format with schemes clearly divided according to age group.
Step By Step costs €28 + €6 postage and packaging.
Special NAYD member rate: €18 + €6 post and packaging.
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PlayShare Volume One
ISBN: 0-9540953-1-6
PlayShare - Volume One is NAYD's first published collection of plays for performance by young people. The collection features five plays written by Mark O'Rowe, Gerry Stembridge, Veronica Coburn, Max Hafler and Ciarán Gray. The plays explore issues of love, death, loyalty, friendship, violence and the struggle to be oneself in the face of social pressure.
With cast sizes of 8-16 characters, a variety of settings from a side-street in Galway to a Dublin estate to a Paris hotel, and styles ranging from gritty realism to a rhythm piece to impressionistic ensemble work, PlayShare presents a series of comic and tragic contemporary tales for youth theatre and drama groups.
PlayShare - Volume One costs €14 + €3.85 postage and packaging.
NAYD members enjoy a €4 discount (€10 + €3.85 postage and packaging).
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Youth Drama Ireland
Youth Drama Ireland is the annual journal of NAYD, featuring over 40 pages of news, interviews, articles, reports, workshops, book reviews, and lots more. Youth Drama Ireland is available free of charge from NAYD.
New Edition of YDI published! 
YDI 2009-2010 is now available. Features include an article by Maurice Devlin, Director of the Centre for Youth Research at NUI Maynooth, examining the benefits of participation in youth theatre, Roise Goan interviews 3 ex-youth theatre members who have gone on to become some of Ireland's most exciting theatre makers while Willie White talks to THEATREclub, Exchange Dublin and Come As Soon As You Hear about alternative company structures and new approaches to making work.
There are all the regular features such as book and new writing reviews, workshops for the youth drama space, the youth theatre round-up etc.
Back issues (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005-06, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009) are also available.
Intermission
Intermission is our monthly members' newsletter, featuring news about NAYD training, events, festivals and activities, along with details about Youth Theatre productions happening every month around Ireland, not to mention national and international youth arts news.
You can also get the latest news sent straight to your Inbox with our brand new e-newsletter.
