ATYP is bringing theatre to your home – starring you!
With help from the ATYP Foundation, we have commissioned 11 brilliant Australian playwrights to each write a 5-minute script that you can download and perform with your family and friends (when visitors are allowed at your place of course or try it with your friends over Zoom!). Each script features 2-6 characters, with a mix of some young people and some adults. Anyone in your house can play any character – or multiple characters! There are no boundaries!
Want to star on our YouTube channel? Your filmed masterpiece can be featured on the ATYP YouTube channel and our other social media. If you’d like to participate, simply:
- Download the script you like
- Read the play!
- Rehearse with whoever you’d like in your video
- Film your piece in landscape format – and get creative! We want to see how you bring the piece to life!
- Send your piece to atyp@atyp.com.au as a high-res video file using WeTransfer. By sending us your video you acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions* below. Please include your full name, age, and state (this information will not be published).
- Watch your masterpiece on the internet!
THE ATYP HOME THEATRE PLAYS
Lounge Room Lockdown News by The ListiesHieroglyphics by Finegan KruckemeyerMrs Shakespeare Draws a Line by Vanessa BatesThe Puppet Show by Ross MuellerStir Crazy by Emme Hoy and Gretel VellaSpying from Home by Jasper Lee-LindsayRamadan Rocketship by Tasnim HossainRing-a-ring by Leah PurcellThree Windows by Finegan KruckemeyerUche’s Token by Chika IkogweThe same tomorrow by Lachlan PhilpottFind My iPhone by Rachael Coopes
Lounge Room Lockdown News by The Listies
Characters: 5 – can be played by any age, 1 pet or stuffed toy
Kidult comedians, The Listies, present a slightly stir crazy comedy sketch about presenting the news from your lounge room. Warning: may contain traces of pirates.
Download cheat sheet (you’ll need this first!)
Download Lounge Room Lockdown News script
Hieroglyphics by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Characters: 4 – can be played by any age
It’s bad enough that someone in the family (not accusing anyone – but probably your sister) has drawn pictures on the wall. What’s worse is that those pictures… seem to predict the future. And what’s even worse than that last worse thing, is the future… looks insane. No spoilers but get ready for floods, exploding kitchens, and dinosaurs on motorbikes.
Mrs Shakespeare Draws a Line by Vanessa Bates
Characters: 5 – can be played by any age
Will Shakespeare’s group Zoom is going well until his mum appears. Will he and his friends be able to come up with an idea for his next play before Mrs Shakespeare’s yoga class starts?
The Puppet Show by Ross Mueller
Characters: 4 – can be played by any age
X-box is fine, but what is actually in the actual box?… Socks and undies collide to prove that there is still space for silly in our daily life.
Stir Crazy by Emme Hoy and Gretel Vella
Characters: 4 – can be played by any age
After OLDEST brings the terrifying virus into the house while mum’s at work, MIDDLE and YOUNGEST must use trench coats, a kitchen blender and their knowledge of zombies to stop the spread.
Spying from Home by Jasper Lee-Lindsay
Characters: 3 – can be played by any age
Home schooling? Working from home? Even a family of undercover insurgent spies on a top secret mission to gather intel for their Glorious Motherland think that this whole lockdown thing is a bit dull. Almost bored out of their minds, they’re going to have to use all their training to keep themselves entertained until they can get back to their more social life of espionage.
Ramadan Rocketship by Tasnim Hossain
Characters: 3 – can be played by any age
It’s a late afternoon in Ramadan and the iftar feast needs to be on the table before the grown-ups get home and the sun goes down. Can three kids get all the food ready, all by themselves, when it’s much more fun to play with things than to cook with them?
Ring-a-ring by Leah Purcell
Characters: 5 plus a voice off – can be played by any age
The whole family is too busy to play with little sister. She decides to call her Nanna on the old landline, and a world of story, memory and imagination starts to unfold.
Three Windows by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Characters: 2 – can be played by any age
Emmy loves talking with her granddad Doug. Doug loves talking with his granddaughter Emmy. Some stuff they talk about is one hundred percent true. Other stuff, one hundred percent isn’t. And that second lot of stuff – well that’s usually the best.
Uche’s Token by Chika Ikogwe
Characters: 3 – can be played by any age
Is bravery enough to be the best? A young warrior goes on an adventure to find the special token that’ll make her stand out from the rest.
The same tomorrow by Lachlan Philpott
Characters: 4 – can be played by any age
As isolation ends, most people assume things will go back to normal. But Amy’s family has other ideas.
Find My iPhone by Rachael Coopes
Characters: 2 – can be played by any age
Tess’s phone has gone missing. No doubt, thanks to her annoying brother. “Find My iPhone” locates it – in the home of a scone-baking, Bridge-playing grandma. Who is telling the truth? Technology or unlikely thief Barbara?
*TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
By sending ATYP your video, you agree to and acknowledge these terms and conditions.
• The video will be published publicly on ATYP YouTube and social media accounts
• The participants in the video consent to their image being published by ATYP
Please send your video to atyp@atyp.com.au with your full name, age, and state (this information will not be published).