VENUE: Northcote Town Hall
WORKSHOPS: 13 March-15 May 2007
PERFORMANCE: 26 May 2007
Workshops
Emerging writers worked with two top playwrights – Ross Mueller and Tee O’Neill – to develop their writing skills and workshop ideas. At the end of the workshops, there was a public reading of the groups’ work.
Reading
Unravelling by Rachael Berry
A short play which revolves around the love lives of four young friends who communicate their frustrations and their desires to one another through an inter-weaving of popular 21st century expression and late 19th century (fin-de-siecle) sophisticated speech.
In Between by Amelia Evans
A short play about a young woman establishing a new relationship with a man, while trying to ignore the Ex, who is physically present and dredging up raw but almost tender memories.
Transition by Johanna Kelly
Explores Joh’s unique design aesthetic within urban love stories that have a distinctly Australian perspective.
Happy Birthday to me by Kate Nicholson
A short play which looks at the way people interact once the sun goes down an ordinary Friday night. Some benefit from the interactions and one person quickly sees a way he can use the situation to his advantage.
Infected by Chris Summers
1 and 2 meet. They have sex. It lacks lustre. 1 and 2 have unprotected sex. It gets violent. 3 follows 2. She builds a story in her head. 2 and 3 have sex. They are all infected. 1 keeps spreading. 1 keeps spreading. 1 keeps spreading. A disturbing tale of infection, set amidst the resurgent AIDS epidemic in contemporary Australia.
Two Women by Ayesha Tansey
The story of the elderly Shirley and Thelma who befriend two homeless men and become their legal guardians…and take out life insurance policies on them. After the men perish in separate hit-and-run accidents, the elderly women claim the money but do they get away with it? Two Women will be produced for Victorian Seniors Week in October of this year.
David Ryding is a director, dramaturge and writer with extensive experience in youth theatre. He has worked with Broken Limb Youth Theatre Company, University of Western Australia Dramatic Society, as well as many Barking Gecko Youth Arts initiatives. Most recently he directed the second year acting students at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has also sat on BSX, Black Swan Theatre Company’s youth theatre board, and is a former youth worker.