Category: Karen Therese

  PYT Fairfield presents. PLAYLIST, a group-devised work by the company, at the old School of Arts, 19 Harris Street, Fairfield. 2-11 August. PLAYLIST is a new Australian work devised by PYT under the Direction of Karen Therese. The company of five performers, five young women: Ebube Uba, Mara Knezevic, May Tran, Tasha O’Brien and Neda Taha, part of the diverse cultural community in the outer Western suburb of Fairfield, have developed a ‘show’ based on their conversation about the artists, not exclusively female, but mostly, that have helped shape their everyday lives and social and political worlds, under the…

  PYT FAIRFIELD presents, TRIBUNAL, a devised verbatim work led by Karen Therese, at the PYT Performance Space in Fairfield. 2 March – March11. TRIBUNAL, was presented last year in a short and sold out season at the SBW Stables Theatre. This re-mounting of the work has been prepared for the local audience of Fairfield, the ‘home’ of the young theatre company. What was exciting about the showing in Fairfield is to experience the sense of community and its support for one another. In the foyer we were regaled by The Choir of Love, invited to dance, and offered coffee…

Photo by Alex Wisser Powerhouse Youth Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company present TRIBUNAL. Concept by Karen Therese, at the SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, 12 – 20 August. A tribunal is a court of justice. This TRIBUNAL, in the SBW Theatre, does not reach for that definition, rather it facilitates a gathering of tribunes: indigenous peoples and refugees with their empathetic supporters. Tribunes being defined as a person who upholds or defends popular rights, or dare one say in Australia in August 2016, persons who uphold and defend human rights. TRIBUNAL is a modest but powerful piece of verbatim theatre.…

Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) in association with the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP), present TEAM AUSTRALIA: STORIES FROM FAIRFIELD, at the ATYP Theatre, Wharf 4, Hickson Rd, Miller’s Point. 21 -24 October, 2015. TEAM AUSTRALIA: STORIES FROM FAIRFIELD is the Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) Ensemble showcase for 2015. It seems that this core group of six performers: Luke Cignarella, Monica Kumar, Mahdi Mohammadi, David Robertts, Barbara Schefer, and Amanda Sullo, young artists from South West Sydney, have met for two hours each Monday, over the past year or so, to research and train with professional arts practitioners. Says Karen…

  Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) in association with STARTTS, present, LITTLE BAGHDAD: LET’S PARTY LIKE IT’S 620BC, at the Powerhouse Youth Theatre, Fairfield, 11th and 12 July. LITTLE BAGHDAD: LET’S PARTY LIKE IT’S 620BC, was presented by Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT) in association with STARTTS (Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors.) It is a festival developed in collaboration with Fairfield’s Iraqi community. Hosted by Layla and Firas Naji, it is the second iteration of Little Baghdad, bringing together artists, community members and first time visitors to Fairfield in a unique celebration of the Iraqi-Australian experience. A friend…

KISS Club present THE HUNTING PARTY, activists, outlaws, artists. At Fraser Studios, Heffron Hall, Palmer St, Darlinghurst. An initiative supported by Queen Street Studio and The City of Sydney. On invitation, thirty-odd guests, including myself, arrived at 7pm at Heffron Hall, where a long table had been decorated and prepared for a dinner. Some of us had dressed for the occasion, some didn’t. We stood about and introduced ourselves with a glass of one’s preferred beverage. There were a few people I knew, but, mostly were meeting for the first time. Conversation usually began shyly and gradually, mostly, became animated.…