Ask Too Much Of Me

There’s more to know than there ever was before, meaning maybe we’re more ignorant because we don’t. (know, that is.) So if you’re not feeling small, lost or afraid, then you’re not paying attention.

Ask Too Much of Me follows young people living together outside the law in the turbulent first half of 2018. The Belfast rape trial has just reached a verdict. There’s a referendum on the 8th amendment coming up. Maybe it’s a good thing that these inexperienced squatters don’t have a dinner table, because dinner table conversation is pressurised and painful like never before. (For those who still talk to their parents, at least.)

They have a lot of questions and few answers, meaning they live by faith even if they don’t live by god.

Where is safe? Who can I count on? Can love save us? Is a better world impossible just because we can’t imagine it?

Come along, but expect no answers.

Written for the National Youth Theatre ensemble 2019.
Photos by: Ros Kavanagh.