Opportunity for budding playwrights


WRITING FOR THEATRE

An AWG/Stages workshop with Lachlan Philpott

Do you have a great idea for a play but don’t know where to begin?

Have you written the first scene and feel a bit stuck?

Does your dialogue ring true?

Keen to crack the form so the play is unique?

Playwriting workshop

Lachlan working with the director and cast of WAYTCo’s ‘TEARS’ in 2010

This workshop will offer explorations in entry points, the pulse and rhythm of characters, writing cracking dialogue, inventing an interesting form, and discovering the internal structure required for the play you want to write

Come and join award-winning playwright Lachlan Philpott in a dynamic theatre writing workshop filled with provocative exercises to charge your imagination and give practical tools to get words out of your head and into actors mouths on stage.
When: 9.30am – 4.30pm Saturday 29 June 2013
Where: AWG, 266 William St Northbridge
Cost: $60 AWG/Stages/WAYTCo/Blue Room/MEAA    $80 Others
Registration: Please email Alan Payne: wa@awg.com.au by Tuesday 25 June. Write “Your Surname THEATRE”  in the subject heading of your email and include a phone contact. You will be contacted to confirm your place and payment details. Optional: you may wish to provide a short outline (100 words max) of your experience and interests.
Places limited to ten participants – early registration recommended.
Presented in association with the WA Youth Theatre Company.

ALIENATION, a new work written by Lachlan Philpott presented by the Perth Theatre Company opens Tuesday 2 July, with previews from 28 June.

LACHLAN PHILPOTT- Lachlan is a theatre and screen writer, dramaturg, and teacher. His multi-award winning plays have been widely performed in Australia and The UK. Lachlan was writer in residence at Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne [2006] and Griffin Theatre Company Sydney [2010], Playwright’s Foundation, San Francisco [2012]. He is the only writer from the Southern hemisphere to be selected as one of Scotland’s Traverse Fifty writers at The Traverse Theatre Edinburgh in 2013. Lachlan was the Literary Associate at The Australian Theatre for Young People between 2008 and 2011 where he directed the FRESH INK emerging writers’ program. He teaches students in the post-graduate courses at Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Arts [NIDA] and MetroScreen and mentors writers as part of programs run by PlayWriting Australia and JUMP; Australia’s national arts mentoring program. Lachlan is the Chair of the Australian Writers’ Guild Playwriting Committee. The AWG acknowledges the support of the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest.

If you are or have learned acting in our Sunday acting classes we’ve emailed you a link to take part in a survey. Check your inboxes. If you respond by next Friday and reveal your name (otherwise it’s an anonymous survey), you may win a $25 voucher to spend on any WAYTCo ticket or activity.

❥Video: introducing our next show’s Über-cool team❤


Our cast and crew have been hard at work with planning and preparation for our next show

They’ve made a little video for you to watch – you can watch it on Vimeo here

We have a stunning design and production team on board as well as some great volunteers to help the cast create some great theatre.
Director: Kirsty Hillhouse, assistant director Laurie McAinsh
Designer: Lauren Ross, production design attachment Natasha Currell
Sound: Nikki Jones and Shaun Salmon (Late Night Shopping)
Lighting: Joe Lui (Renegade Productions)
AV design: Mia Holton
Production Manager: Emily Stokoe
Stage Manager: Scott Corbett (The Cutting Room Floor), ASM attachment Mark Sinclair
Marketing & PR: The Creative Arts House, marketing design: Amy Moffatt, marketing attachment Samantha MacLean
Special thanks to Caitlin Brass for education liaison work

We’d like to welcome Daley King and Verity Softly to the cast and the talent in this group is immense. another twin

Please donate to our crowdfunding campaign and help us reach our target of $2000 to support this production: rewards on offer include tickets to see the show and Tim Minchin signed merchandise.

Another Twin crowdfunding campaign

Young WA playwrights and actors celebrated at WA Youth Week with STAGES


A BIG congratulations to the playwrights Asha Healy, Barnaby Pollock, Benjamin Siddons, Chris Ratcliffe, Elysia Tsangarides, Jay Emmanuel, Jordon Nix, Kahlia Richardson, Kevin Wangai, Mikala Westall, Pauline Agius and Sandi Buckley who have been selected to have their monologues read for WA Youth Week: Stages WA “Wilderness Monologues” at the State Theatre Centre.  Lots of members and former members in this talented group. Among the actors reading the monologues are WAYTCo members Tahlia Norrish and Jessica Shallcross. Join them at the State Theatre Large Tenancy space occupied by Propel Youth Arts WA on Sunday 26 May, at 2pm.  Reserve your free seat here they have nearly reached capacity so, if you are keen to attend, book soon.  This project is supported by Perth Theatre Trust, Stages WA, Propel Youth Arts WA, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, WA Youth Theatre Co, Southern Edge Arts (City of Albany) and Cummins Theatre (Shire of Merredin).

Stages Writing Consortium

A BIG thank you to STAGES for supporting our fire writers group led by Hellie Turner. Congratulations to the following writers for successfully getting onto the team
>> Ellen O’Connor
>> Sandi Buckley
>> Geordie Crawley
>> Jessica Messenger
>> Kane Parker

Lastly here’s an opportunity to find out more about how to raise money for artistic training and activites through the state government of WA

DCA Grant info session 2013

FIRE – writing mentor


WAYTCo is pleased to announce that award winning screen and stage writer, Hellie Turner, will be leading the writing process for FIRE. Reg Cribb has taken on an Indian/Australian feature film and will be head-down working on that over the next few months. Luckily for us, Hellie has just returned from New York and will be able to share her skills and experience with the selected writers for the project. Welcome on board Hellie!

Hellie Turner

Hellie Turner

Another Twin cast/crew meet for the first time


cast and crew meet

Director Kirsty Hillhouse and assistant director Laurie McAinsh introduce the 17 cast members to some of the production team – Lauren Ross (set design), Nikki and Shaun (music and song), Daley King (stage management).

set designer Lauren Ross

Lauren Ross briefs the cast

Kirsty writes “It’s so exciting to finally have everyone of the creative team in one room.  It’s been quite a process to  assemble this collection of theatre makers.  Everyone was chosen carefully.  But it all paid off on Sunday. There was a palpable buzz.  Lauren’s designs were evocative, imaginative, and captured perfectly the visual world of this weird and wonderful piece.   It is all delicious in it’s newness.  This ensemble will work really well together. Each character’s voice and rhythms are already beginning to form,  and the early sketches of sound from our designers, Nikki and Shaun, ignited our ideas and imaginations.  This is a strong and talented team.

firstrehearse2We have stood on the cusp and now we plunge into the creation of what I’m sure will be stunning theatre.”

You can support this production by donating any amount from $1 to $300 at our Pozible crowdfunding site http://pozible.com/anothertwin – we have rewards including tickets to see the show, VIP opening night invitations, collectible Tim Minchin merchandise signed by our Patron Tim Minchin, and a golden ticket to see theatre in Perth.

firstrehearse4

WAYTCo represents WA at National Youth Theatre Summit


We’re excited to announce that young emerging theatre maker ZOE HOLLYOAK will be accompanying our Artistic Director Kirsty Hillhouse to the

NAtional Youth Theatre Summit 2013

Canberra April 11-13 2013

Zoe Hollyoak

Zoe Hollyoak

More than just a series of discussions, the outcomes and ideas sparked at the summit will be presented at the Australian Theatre Forum in May this year, so it is of vital importance that Western Australian voices are included in these discussions.

Zoe is currently studying Performing Arts at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and is part of The Cutting Room Floor, a collaborative theatre ensemble based in Western Australia. Her most recent work, includes ‘Poly’ for the Fringe World Festival and is soon to star in WAYTCO’s upcoming production, ‘Another Twin’.

“There is something about the collaborative environment and the devising process that I’m drawn to more than any other theatre – it’s not only a cathartic experience, but I’ve found it’s one of the most honest ways to create theatre. I feel so honoured to attend The Youth Theatre Summit, to work with young passionate theatre-makers from all over Australia. It’s going to be a place bursting with creative energy – I’m excited just thinking about it.”

We’d like to acknowledge the generous support of Canberra Youth Theatre and the WA Department of Culture and the Arts in helping us to take advantage of this opportunity to attend at very late notice.

The summit will feature various workshops and seminars for artistic development, as well as a key note speech and masterclass by Baba Israel, former Artistic Director of Contact Manchester, and Contacting the World Theatre Festival, which we hope to be a part of next year.

Department of Culture and the Arts

Another Twin casting announcement


Act-Belong-CommitIt was a long and difficult process, but here at last is the full cast for our next play ANOTHER TWIN by Lally Katz.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Healthway and we are proud to promote the message of our sponsors ACT-BELONG-COMMIT Mentally Healthy WA

Charlotte Westrip

Charlotte Westrip

Character name Actor
Aishling Charlotte Westrip
Cassandra Zoe Hollyoak
Samantha (twin) Rachel Chamberlain
Clara (twin) Lucy Clements
Amanda Mariah O’Dea
Frieda Catherine Bonny
The Postman Keiran Wych
Hayley Jodee Anderson
Martha Olivia Finlay
Tim Murphy Voight
Angela Kaycee Graham
Bernadette Emily David
Linda Madelaine Page
Mark Campbell Greenock
Andrew Nic Doig
James Scott Corbett
Travelling Man Zachary Drieberg
Lucy Clements

Lucy Clements

Olivia Finlay

Olivia Finlay

Another twin

Emily David, Mariah O’Dea, Campbell Greenock and Madelaine Page

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