19-21 May, 2000
Mechanic Institutes Performing Arts Centre

26-28 May, 2000
Northcote Uniting Church

3-4 June, 2000
Next Wave Festival
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre

10-11 June, 2000
Next Wave Festival
Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine

Written by Platform Youth Theatre members
Directed Bagryana Popov

Two young refugees attempt to escape awful circumstances by stowing away in the cargo hold of a plane. They freeze to death. This is the starting point of Home. Nine young people from culturally diverse backgrounds explore the concept of home.

When Platform was still a part of the City of Darebin, Home was a project centred on young people from the local area working with professional writers, director and musician to workshop, write and perform a work of contemporary theatre. Funded by the Department of Immigration, the focus was on young people’s experience of cultural diversity – its positives and contrasting points of prejudice and racism.

The play was written and devised primarily by the cast of young non-professional theatre workers, over a period of about six months. It toured regional Victoria as part of the 2000 Next Wave Festival.