Do you feel like a small child again? Do you want to be a small child again? To be looked after? Don’t your parents look after you? Do you not feel looked after? Do you feel people take their emotions out on you?

Written by Sarah McKenna Dunne, “Waiting List” is a raw, honest, and darkly funny exploration of youth mental health, identity, and the systems meant to support us—but so often fail. Told through the interwoven lives of teenagers in Cavan navigating friendship, anxiety, creative pressure, gender identity, family expectations, and online culture, the play dives deep into the chaos of coming of age in 2025 Ireland.

Through surreal nightmares, school drama, TikTok dreams, and sugar-fuelled satire, Waiting List asks: What happens when help is months away—and you need it now?

A moving, multi-voiced performance that blends poetry, drama, music, and heartbreak, this is youth theatre at its boldest.