ATYP regrets to announce our co-production of THE LIES WE WERE TOLD will no longer be presented in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. We hope to reschedule the production in 2021 and will keep you posted with updates later in the year.
A Shopfront Arts Co-op Co-production
We grow up being lied to. Often for good reasons – so we can believe in something magical, to believe we can be whoever we want to be, or to shield us from pain. This is about those moments. When a lie is told, and the truth is revealed, and in that moment something is discovered, something that will change you forever, something that cannot be unlearned. From global conspiracies to childhood memories to the most personal moments of all. This is how we grow up. This is life!
Following our critically acclaimed partnership on 2017’s Dignity of Risk, ATYP and Shopfront Arts Co-op join forces once again to premiere The Lies We Were Told. An ensemble of young people aged 8-18 will share personal stories and verbatim texts, investigating the moments when it felt like you grew up in one day, or one hour, or one minute and nothing would ever be the same again.
Preview 26 August
Season 27 August – 6 September
Wed – Sat 7pm
Sun 5pm
Matinees
Thurs 27 August and 3 September 12pm
Fri 28 August and 4 September 12pm
Shopfront Arts Co-op
86-88 Carlton Parade, Carlton
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”
Maurice Chevalier
Buy Tickets
Shopfront Arts Co-op
Full Price: $25
Preview/Concession: $18
Family $70 (2 x adults 2 x kids)
Cast & Creative Team
Devised by
ATYP and Shopfront Arts Co-op
Director
Natalie Rose
Image Credit
Art Director
Justin Stambouliah
Photographer
Luke Stambouliah
Make Up
Sophia Lee
Image subject
Nick Annas
