Category: Rachel Chant

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,…

Photo by Rupert Reid Photography Millstone Productions presents MOTH, by Declan Greene, in the ATYP Theatre, Wharf 4, Hickson Rd., Walsh Bay. 6 September – 16 September. MOTH is a one act play by Australian writer, Declan Greene. It is a very early example of his work and the ‘promise’ that this text predicts has been continually advanced upon with project following project: e.g. LITTLE MERCY; EIGHT GIGABYTES OF HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY and more recently, THE HOMOSEXUALS OR ‘FAGGOTS’. Two young teenagers, Claryssa (Ruby O’Kelly) – a self-declared emo, Wiccan art-freak, and Sebastian (Jeremi Campese) – an underdeveloped, sickly 15 year old…

Photo by Andre Vasquez Cross Pollinate and Red Line productions present THE VILLAGE BIKE, by Penelope Skinner, at the Old Fitz Theatre, Cathedral St Woolloomooloo. 7th June – 8th July. THE VILLAGE BIKE is a British play by Penelope Skinner, first seen at the Royal Court Theatre, in 2011. Rachel Chant in her Director’s notes tells us In preparing this play we went down many tunnels of research: the Madonna/Whore complex, objectification, gender roles, pornography, power and sexual liberation. … In this so-called ‘post-feminist’ world, THE VILLAGE BIKE asks us to consider, “what does liberation look like?” Becky (Gabrielle Scawthorn), a…

  Some Company in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Co presents, LEAVES, by Lucy Caldwell, at the Kings Cross Theatre (KXT), Kings Cross Hotel, July 9 – July 23rd. LEAVES is a play by Irish writer, Lucy Caldwell, written in 2007, as part of a residency at the National Theatre Studio. A family is waiting for the return of their eldest daughter, Lori (Harriet Gordon-Anderson), from a recovery clinic after an attempted suicide. Her two younger siblings, Clover (Bobbie-Jean Henning) and Poppy (Poppy Lynch) have responded to the events differently and are trying to find a way to prepare to respond…

Photos by Zorica Purlija Peter Fray presents, BLUE ITALIAN and NIL BY SEA, by Katie Pollock, at the Leichhardt Town Hall, Sydney. April 29 – May 17, 2015. BLUE ITALIAN and NIL BY SEA are two new short plays by Katie Pollock. The evening is short, less than an hour, total. One enters the space by a side door from a bleak, small, fluorescent-lit foyer of the Leichhardt Town Hall and walk through some local council (LMC) yellow and black road block tools on the floor flat, with the blinking battery lights indicating caution. The light is dim and the…