What's On - QLD

BACKBONE YOUTH ARTS INC
Level 3, Metro Arts
109 Edward Street
Brisbane, Qld. 4000
Ph: (07) 3210 2666
Fax: (07) 3210 2655
Email: info@backbone.org.au
Website: www.backbone.org.au

Backbone Youth Arts offers term based workshops (following the school/university year) and intensive programs

Booking are now open for Term-based Workshops series and Easter Holiday Workshops – Term 1, 2008 starts Saturday 2 February - Find a program to suit you or for further information and bookings please call Backbone Youth Arts (07) 3210 2666 or visit www.backbone.org.au. Program out NOW!

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Punks
It’s a bloody riot!

On 30 November 1979 a battle took place in the unbalanced war between the Queensland police and young Brisbane punks. In this city, more than anywhere else in Australia, the punk scene had a sharp political edge. It was a finger in the face of a repressive State Government and their chief weapon, the highly politicised police force.

This new development revisits a very different Queensland from the one we know now. Actors aged between 18 and 26 will have the opportunity to work with Backbone Youth Arts’ creative team of Fraser Corfield and Andrew Cory and award winning playwright Sven Swenson to develop the script. It will be loud. It will be rude. It will not make any apologies. Don’t miss out!

Ages: 18-26 years
Auditions:     Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March
Registration: Email CV and headshot to info@backbone.org.au, or phone (07) 3210 2666

The Spotlight Season

The Café!
Physical comedy devised with Andrew Cory

Suit: 14-16 years
Synopsis: Welcome to a small café with a menu of comic characters!

Ingredients: add one temperamental chef, a clumsy food waiter, a pompous head waiter, a crazy dishwasher and a few of the locals who come for the soup. Stir vigorously, throw in a couple on a first date and spice with a tourist who does not speak the language. Put in oven and serve with a side order of giggles.

The Café will perform a school holiday season in the Sue Benner Theatre at Metro Arts. Participants will devise and rehearse this physical comedy over the term. It is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in working with one of Queensland’s leading professional physical theatre practitioners.

Auditions:    Saturday, March 29
Cost:     $300
Rehearsals:    Mondays, 4 – 7pm
14 Apr – 23 Jun
    School Holiday Period, Monday – Friday, 9am – 2pm
    30 Jun – 4 Jul
Director: Andrew Cory
Season: Sue Benner Theatre, Metro Arts
2:00pm July 8 and 9, 2.00pm and 7:30pm July 10.
Tickets: $10 per person, $25 per family

Backbone’s 2008 2high Festival

Want to be involved in the biggest, boldest, longest-running celebration of independent artists in Brisbane? Then sign on for the 2high Festival! This ground-breaking event is the development opportunity for anyone aged up to 26 interested in marketing, publicity or event, festival and company management.

Be mentored by some of Queensland’s most respected professionals. Work in a team of motivated movers and shakers. Select and manage a program of inspirational artists. Learn by getting out there and making it happen

“I was able to carry out everything I wanted to achieve. I learnt so much that I couldn’t have got anywhere else. It was such a nurturing environment.”

“It was such a wonderful experience. I worked with some really talented people, learnt some fabulous skills and leapt out of my comfort zone!”

“Truly worthwhile!”

Feedback from 2006 coordinators

Find out more by calling Backbone Youth Arts or by visiting www.backbone.org.au. Applications for Coordinators will close at 5pm on Friday March 7.

EXTENSIONS YOUTH DANCE COMPANY
PO Box 1645
Townsville QLD 4812
Ph: (07) 4772 2549
Fax: (07) 4721 3014
Email: xtensions@bigpond.net.au
Website: www.dancenorth.com

Extensions celebrate their 21st Birthday in 2008. Auditions for their first project Le Chat Noir, collaboration with La Luna Youth Arts, will be held on February 24 at the School of Arts Theatre, Cnr Stanley and Walker Sts, Townsville. Le Chat Noir aims to recreate the ambience and intimacy of Paris’ Rodolphe Salis’ “cabaret artistique” with a North Queensland Flavour. This joint performance will provide light entertainment featuring comedy, dance, circus, song and theatre. Stay tuned for further information or contact Artistic Director Kylie Ball.

JUTE THEATRE
96 Abbott St
Cairns QLD 4870
Tel: 07 4050 9444
Fax: 07 4050 9440
Email: info@jute.com.au
Website: www.jute.com.au

Gods of Spicy Things – A Divine Comedy by Sue Hayes
SUITS: Year 10 – 12
A JUTE THEATRE AND CROSSROAD ARTS CO-PRODCUTION
A THEATRE TO THE EDGE TOUR
SYNOPSIS: Two Hindu Gods, Two Mortals, and a Lonely Planet Guide. Writer/Performer Sue Hayes brings us a delightful ‘Bollywood’ travelogue where the Gods take two unsuspecting westerners and use them as pawns in their godly clash of wills. Staring Sue Hayes and Christopher Glover this magical, mystical romp through India takes our unwitting travellers on an unexpected journey.   Leela, a magazine writer seeking exotic adventures and Chris a slick London advertising guru visiting his Indian homeland to scatter his mother’s ashes are thrown together and only the gods Krishna and Durgha know what is in store for these mere mortals. A visually sumptious and colourful production. A divine comedy about the beautiful contradiction that is India.
SEASON: Opens 6 Feb. Returns 28 Feb – 8 March
VENUE:     JUTE Theatre, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns
COST:    Half Price Tuesday: $15
Other nights: $25 Under 25.
    Full price $30
BOOKINGS: Phone ticketLiNK on (07) 40319 555

ALSO TOURING TO:
Mackay Entertainment Centre:        13 - 16 February
        Tropic Sun Theatre, Townsville:        18 – 24 Feb
        Browns Mart, Darwin:            10 – 16 March

QUEENSLAND THEATRE COMPANY
Education Program
PO Box 3310
South Brisbane BC QLD 4101
Ph: (07) 3010 7600
Fax: (07) 3010 7699
Email: mail@qldtheatreco.com.au
Website: www.qldtheatreco.com.au

The first Queensland Theatre Company Education Performance of 2008 is the contemporary Australian black comedy, Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron.
SEASON: 8 – 16 May
DURATION: 95 minutes, no interval
WORKSHOPS: Workshops with the actors are available for $7.50 per student after the 1.00pm and 6.30pm performances.
COST: $17.50 per student, one complimentary teacher for every fifteen students booked
CONTACT: QTIX Schools Groups on 07 3840 7127

For more information regarding the Youth & Education Program at Queensland Theatre Company, contact our Education Liaison Officer, Katie Stewart, on 07 3010 7623 or elo@qldtheatreco.com.au.

SAINTS YOUTH THEATRE
251 Draper St
Cairns QLD 4870
Tel: 07 4052 9164
Fax: 07 4031 5465
Email: boswellle@sac.qld.edu.au
Website: www.syt.org.au

Out-of-SYT
SUITS: Year 8 – 12

Synopsis: This is a youth theatre project that will devise, script and perform two, one-act plays for young people and by young people for National Youth Week. Out-of-SYT will take a local approach working with the Migrant Settlement Service and focusing on the diverse cultures within our multicultural landscape within the far north.

SEASON:     Sunday April 5 - Sunday 13 April 2008
VENUE:         The McLaughlin Theatre, St Augustine’s College
COST:        Free.
BOOKINGS:    Not Required