‘Space to dream’: new home for Youth Theatre
Canberra Youth Theatre is moving house, the company’s jubilant artistic director and CEO Luke Rogers told a crowd gathered in Gorman Arts Centre courtyard on Wednesday night.
Canberra Youth Theatre
Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN rates Mary Rachel Brown's "Rosieville" as a "sane and funny play, a rarity in that it is about ordinary life in Canberra".
"There’s tragedy in these lives; parents die, cancer strikes. Sexual relations can be fraught. Finding one’s identity is tricky. Growing into adulthood is hard.," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
SAMARA PURNELL reviews Canberra Youth Theatre's production of "The Trials" at The Courtyard Theatre.
Theatre
When ‘angry’ teens put the adults in the dock
“It's ‘Twelve Angry Men’ – with teenagers,” Canberra Youth Theatre director Luke Rogers says of Dawn King’s “The Trials”, the hot-topic play to which he’s just snared the Australian performing rights.
Theatre
Youth theatre launches a season of new works
After a bumper 50th anniversary year, Canberra Youth Theatre has unveiled a season of new works to run at Canberra Theatre Centre in 2023.
Reviews
An amazing premiere for amazing playwright
Reviewer ARNE FEALING reviews Canberra Youth Theatre's "How to Vote".
Julian Larnach, a former student politician himself, has written “How To Vote”, a play for Canberra Youth Theatre involving an opportunity, he says, “to write a really big play about what happens when the system breaks apart”.
"The Initiation" is lively and funny; dramatic and dynamic; never turgid or self-indulgent, says reviewer SIMONE PENKETHMAN.
Reviewer SAMARA PURNELL enjoys the laughs in "Dags"... "Refreshingly, this is not a nasty, bitchy play with heavy topics, despite the squabbles and emotional rollercoasters of the characters."
WITH the hashtag #50yearsyoung, Canberra Youth Theatre celebrates its half century this year, writes HELEN MUSA.
In a short but snazzy virtual launch last night, Canberra Youth Theatre artistic director and CEO, Luke Rogers, ushered in a year of mostly original plays to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Reviewer by ARNE SJOSTEDT says this play gets busy. Rude. Argumentative. And WOKE.
HELEN MUSA previews the arts on offer as we head to the weekend.
Canberra playwright Joanna Richards has been announced as the inaugural recipient of Canberra Youth Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Commission, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Rose’s script for "Little Girls Alone in the Woods” is accessible for young artists, with a link between the absurd pressure cooker of high school and the menace of soul-crushing laws imposed by frantic adults, writes reviewer JOHN LOMBARD.
Canberra Youth Theatre’s director Luke Rogers is determined to make up for covid-lost time with a year of stage plays that address young people’s fears and strength.
Canberra Youth Theatre has announced its four new resident artists for 2021.
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