Category: Australian Theatre for Young People

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…

Photo by Tracey Schramm Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) present SUGARLAND in the ATYP Studio, Wharf 4, Hickson Rd. Walsh Bay. 27th August – 13 September. SUGARLAND is a new Australian play, written by Rachael Coopes and Wayne Blair. Directed by Fraser Corfield and David Page. In 2011, ATYP began a series of residences in the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory. Over the following two years, playwrights Rachael Coopes and Wayne Blair spent two months in this unique place. The aim was to create a story that would allow people around the country to gain a personal…

  Australian Theatre for Young People presents The Voices Project 2013, OUT OF PLACE at the atyp Wharf Space Hickson Rd. Australian Theatre for Young People presents The Voices Project 2013, OUT OF PLACE by writers from atyp’s Fresh ink program directed by Paige Rattray. 10 young writers have written ten, seven-minute monologues and are performed by ten young actors, members of the atyp cohort. This exercise in joint creativity has been directed under the guidance of Ms Rattray. It is a highly polished production. Design by Lauren O’Flaherty, locating the work on an image of a building site, an…

  Australian Theatre for Young People presents “cursed hearts” inspired by ROMEO AND JULIET of Shakespeare, Gounod and Prokofiev at the atyp theatre space at the Wharf. Danielle O’Keefe, the director, has attempted to investigate with a young troupe of 21 actors, the thematics of Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET, specifically, the forbidden love between warring parties, families. Of the 15 women and 6 men, from my reading of the ensemble biographies in the program, most appear to be still at school. “The aim was to tell the well-known story of ROMEO and JULIET in a new way through the layering…