SEASON: 10-19 July 2008

Written by Wes Snelling and Wally Gunn

Directed by Wes Snelling

Musical direction by Wally Gunn

Set design by Ben Landau

Costume design by Hannah Cuthbertson

Lighting design by Russell Snelling

Performed by Members of Platform Youth Theatre

How do you survive when there isn’t ENOUGH?

A dark tale told from the diary of Atalanta, a teenage girl on the run in a city devastated by war and starvation.

A city where food costs the earth, and is near impossible to get. A city without fuel, without transport, where homes are no longer sacred, where safety is never guaranteed. A city where people line up for rations at a football stadium. A city where religion falters, and faith is in question.

The city is Melbourne. This is how it begins. Do you want to know how it ends?

ENOUGH is a new musical written by Wally Gunn and Wes Snelling. Featuring young performers from all over Melbourne. The first of four projects in 2008-09 by Platform Youth Theatre inspired by The Book of Revelations’ Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, ENOUGH focuses on the third: famine, the Black Horse. This brave new exploration into a dark future is not your average musical.

WORKSHOPS: 4 August-22 September

SEASON: 27 September, 4 October, 11 October

Facilitated by David Ryding

Production design advice by Tanja Beer

Performed by Members of Platform Youth Theatre

Part improvised theatre, part installation with a little dash of street performance, Pestilence, the last horseman of the apocalypse, is riding into view Saturday 27 September, Saturday 4 October and Saturday 11 October at the Synergy Shopfront Gallery in Northcote. Performed from 12pm to 4pm each Saturday, the audience is invited to wander and linger in the space, and witness entirely improvised moments, stories and scenes – stay a minute, stay the afternoon and encounter an ensemble of improvised characters. And all for a gold coin donation.

Under the direction and guidance of artist David Ryding, Pestilence has been created with no script, just devised characters. The Pestilence performance ensemble comprises young artists from various backgrounds who aren’t comfortable calling themselves ‘just actors’ or ‘just writers’ or ‘just designers’ or ‘just performers’. These young people have been working with David Ryding since the beginning of August in devising, creating, producing and performing a multi-artform production.

The theme ‘pestilence’ is inspired by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which is the overall theme for Platform Youth Theatre’s projects in 2008. Following on from a dark musical production inspired by the horseman famine – ENOUGH – which played at fortyfivedownstairs in July, the horseman pestilence will link in with the notion of the ‘plague’ of consumerism rather than a biblical plague of locusts or disease. The Syngery Shopfront Gallery, usually a hub for visual arts, will be stripped back and re-fashioned into a familiar supermarket setting which is non-descript in its generic atmosphere but universal.