Behind the scenes with the making of 'Scahldies Up The Chimley' in Kesh Primary School, Co. Fermanagh.
Shot over seven days in March/April 2011 to give a flavour of the huge effort which went into producing a play to professional standards, in a rural primary school.
Commissioned by the Ulster-Scots Agency and written by local actor and playwright Dan Gordon, 'Scahldies' is a look back at the experiences of children evacuated from Belfast to the country during the 1940s.
In 1999 using a secondhand mobile classroom, a youth outreach centre was established in the village of Kesh. Staffed largely by volunteers, many local young people adopted 'The Fountain' as their home—their own space—on most Friday nights and during the long summer holidays, for over a decade. But our Fermanagh weather has taken it's toll on the building...and now it is to be demolished.
(Happily, this is where the story begins!)