Summer Stage
Side by side with WAYTCo's Artistic Director, take part in creative development activities across the Summer. This is a hot new works incubator to watch!
In Birak, WAYTCo’s Artistic Director, Amelia Burke, turns up the heat with Summer Stage. This program sees members aged 13-26 work on new projects in two streams of creative development. Takes place in the comfort of the WAYTCo Studio and by invitation only.
For an idea of the kinds of ideas that Summer Stage explores, check out the three works that went into intensive creative development last February:
Work 1 – A Response
Led by WAYTCo’s Artistic Director and taking question, “what does it mean to be a kind person in the world right now?” as its starting point, this project is being devised by a group of young people spanning 16-26.
Work 2 – The Shakespeare (a)Gender
Led by Humphrey Bower and Teresa Jakovich, a selection of scenes from some of Shakespeare’s most loved plays are explored through the lens of gender. Shedding new light on the canonical texts of the Bard!
Work 3 – The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia
Written by Grace Chow and directed by Emily Mclean, this new play is a portrait of our nation in photographic negatives, where we capture and ask: who do we forget? Who do we remember? And why? A complex pastiche of love, loss, longing…and threat. This development will create a dialogue between these ambitious themes and a young cast.
For the inaugural run of this new works incubator the heat was certainly turned up!