Australian Theatre for Young People and Brown’s Mart in association with Artback NT present

CUSP

BY MARY ANNE BUTLER

How do you move into the future, when your past keeps dragging you backwards?

ATYP is proud to have commissioned this urgent new work by award-winning playwright Mary Anne Butler.

Elvis wants Rosie. Rosie wants to escape. Maddie doesn’t know what the hell she wants, but it sure isn’t this.

While Rosie balances the needs of community with her own life dreams, Elvis juggles a life of crime with a tougher path into the straight-and-narrow, and Maddie faces life as a single parent. CUSP juxtaposes the Northern Territory’s vast Top End landscape with the turbulent lives of three emerging adults as they swim against the tide of irrevocable change; balancing choice versus fate in a world where, as Elvis observes, “Some people get better choices to choose from.”

Created by Mary Anne Butler, CUSP is a love letter to the young people and landscape of Australia’s Top End, and a reminder of the inherent privilege of being able to make your own choices. 

Join us at The Rebel Theatre for a reminder of the power that young Australians hold, and the hope that future generations carry.

WARNINGS: Adult themes, frequent coarse language, descriptions of sexual acts, suicide and references to trauma.

WRITER 
Mary Anne Butler

DIRECTOR
Fraser Corfield

DRAMATURG
Jane FitzGerald

SET DESIGNER
Cj Fraser-Bell

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jessie Davis

SOUND DESIGNER
Brad Fawcett

LIGHTING REALISER
Jasmine Rizk

TOUR MANAGER
Kate Atkinson

TECHNICIAN/OPERATOR
Chris Kluge

CULTURAL CONSULTANT
Rosealee Grimes [nee Pearson]

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Hayden Tonazzi

REHEARSAL STAGE MANAGER
Bronte Schuftan

WITH
Lakesha Grant
Joshua McElroy
Abbey Morgan
Isaac Harley (Understudy)
Mema Munro (Understudy)

IMAGE
Tracey Schramm