LyT Shows and Projects - DeoxyriboNucleic Acid

In 2007, LyT presented their version of Dennis Kelly’s DeoxyriboNucleic Acid, a darkly funny tale of teenagers who do something very very wrong indeed, and the even more questionable steps they take to cover it all up.

DNA played first at the Traverse Theatre in March 2007, and then was presented as the final performance of NT Connections 2007. LyT will perform the show one more time at the upcoming National Festival of Youth Theatre 2007 in Perth.

DeoxyriboNucleic Acid. DNA. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

When a high school “it” gang takes a joke too far, a lonely and terrified girl is lost … isn’t she?

‘I am trying to keep everyone together. Ever since I came to this school haven’t I been trying to keep everyone together? Aren’t things better? For us? I mean not for them, not out there, but for us? Doesn’t everyone want to be us, come here in the woods? Isn’t that worth keeping hold of?’

LyT perform this shadowy story to a hard-core soundtrack and in their trademark cutting-edge style.

Calling up contemporary media obsessions with “real life stories” and dodgy old men with rotten teeth, DeoxyriboNucleic Acid is a poignant and, sometimes, hilarious tale with a very, very dark heart.