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Happy Days review

11.11.21 Belinda Giblin in Red Line Productions’ Happy Days By Samuel Beckett. Photo by Robert Catto. Have you ever enjoyed a show even though you were mentally constantly banging your brain against the inside of your skull? What felt like hours, felt like minutes after the show. As my mate…
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We’re buzzing with activity this November! 🐝

Claudene Shoesmith, Deputy Workshops Manager I recently read that in all 154 sonnets and 37 plays written by Shakespeare, the month of November isn’t mentioned by name a single time – boy was he missing out! There are lots of things to love about November. Spring weather, the anticipation of…
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Return to the Dirt review

21.10.21 Queensland Theatre – Return to the Dirt, 2021 – photo by David Kelly It’s hard to say no to theatre with a life-sized “OUCH” board used to explain embalming, or a passionately delivered TED Talk-style monologue about the funeral industry. Add in references to my hometown, and I’m front…
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Hush review

22.10.21 Clementine Anderson for Hush. Photo by Jacinthe Lau. Content Warning: References to violence against women, as well as themes of fertility and birth (including miscarriage, birth-trauma, and post-natal depression). “The drive of this wasn’t to write a medical drama, it was to write a work about emotions and fear and…
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New look, who dis? 👀

Amanda Wright, Executive Director After a year away from the company spending time with my small humans, it’s been really lovely to see how much has changed, and how much stays the same. Young people continue to express themselves in artistic ways, but the content and delivery is ever-shifting. Of…
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Rebel Wilson makes our September spectacular 🎆🎭

Judith Seeff, Archivist ATYP is a very mature youth theatre company – if you define maturity by experience (58 years in the biz), perspective (focused on young people in the arts), knowledge (learnt from history), up for challenges and change (innovative initiatives in pandemic times), and measured reactions to crises…
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