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CUSP is a new work by Mary Anne Butler. It has taken three years of discussion, development and rehearsal which included two weeks of that development – one week in Darwin and another in Sydney – with the writer, director and actors to find manifestation in a theatre. It is a quasi-poetic play that uses an abundance of ‘lists’ to achieve this – true to our Elizabethan and Jacobean forebears and their example. We meet three actors playing three young Northern Territorians at the cusp of having their life cycles moving from the teenage metamorphic to the young adult evolution.…

INTERSECTION 20—19: ARRIVAL, is the manifestation of the ATYP Summer Program that has worked with a group of young writers of the 2018 National Studio, to develop some short plays dealing with the seminal arrival at the age of 17, and rehearsing the outcome with a group of young actors. It is an annual event. The writers for 2019 were: Grace Chapple – SOMEDAY; Meg Goodfellow – DEAD THINGS; Emma Skalicky – PANOPTICON; Jasper Lee – THE ICEBURG; Joshua Allen – TWO HOURS AHEAD; Georgie Adamson – REAL DRY; Brooke Murray – PINK SOAP; Flynn Hall – FISH FINGERS; Sasha…

Photo by Tracey Schramm Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) present, IMPENDING EVERYONE, by Michael Andrew Collins, at the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross. until the 7th July. IMPENDING EVERYONE, is a new Australian play, by Michael Andrew Collins. It is the inaugural winner of the ATYP Foundation Commission Award for actors aged between 14 and 18. After a ‘Pitching’ process to create a play for at least 10 actors, each Award winner is given two years to develop a script to be published and produced. Says, Fraser Corfield, the Artistic Director of ATYP: The intention is to build a…

Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) presents INTERSECTION 2018: CHRYSALIS, at the Griffin Theatre, in the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross. 31January – 17 February. Fraser Corfield, the Artistic Director of the ATYP tells us in the introduction to the published texts of this play program: Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), the national youth theatre company, is committed to commissioning and developing plays that young people can perform. … INTERSECTION 2018 is a collection of short stories for the stage written by some of Australia’s leading young playwrights. … INTERSECTION is an annual program, each year offering new characters,…

Canberra Youth Theatre in association with the Australian Theatre For Young People (ATYP) THE VERBATIM PROJECT, AT ATYP THEATRE, Wharf 4, Hickson Rd., Walsh Bay. 19-22 July. Canberra Youth Theatre under the Direction of Katie Cawthorne has developed a Verbatim work: THE VERBATIM PROJECT, with sixteen participants – ten 14-16 year olds and six 65-80 year olds – and brought it to Sydney for a short season, hosted by the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP). It is in the typical verbatim theatre staging formula – physical ‘choreography’ to illustrate and demarcate the issue segments with direct vocal communication to…

Seymour Centre presents 2071, by Duncan Macmillan and Chris Rapley, in association with Australian Theatre For Young People (ATYP), in the Everest Theatre, at the Seymour Centre, Chippendale. 26 May – 10 June. 2071 was first presented at the Royal Court Theatre in 2014, with Chris Rapley, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, investigating the central question: Is human-induced climate change real? Professor Rapley CBE, M.A., P.H.D., D.S.C. was a co-writer with Duncan Macmillan, and ‘performer’. The work has been kept updated with the present science. In Sydney, John Gaden has taken on the formidable task of making the…