11 - 14 February 2012
From the wildly inspired mind of Perth’s very own Academy Award winner Shaun Tan, The Red Tree draws you into a vibrant world of bold imagery and sparkling live music. A young girl embarks on an epic adventure in an unfamiliar land filled with peculiar creatures and dream-like landscapes. The Red Tree creates a path that gradually leads her home. The play engages imaginations with design, sound and lighting that make Shaun Tan’s visions thrillingly real.
25 February - 3 March 2012
We asked. You told us. Making out, fighting, laughing, dancing and confessing … Drawn from over 500 starkly honest and highly confidential interviews with Western Australian teens, this intimate and confronting play draws back the curtain on what it means to be young in our modern, media-driven society.
School Term / March - July
Improvilicious 2.0 is a hilariously entertaining show where two actors use student suggestion to create fast, funny, physical theatre on the spot. This year our Masters of Improv, Sam Longley and Damon Lockwood, bring a new twist to this much loved show, taking audiences through The History of Theatre. Greek, Shakespeare, Moliere, Realism, Brecht, Absuridsm and Australian Theatre – nothing is sacred!
10 - 21 July 2012
Three girls. Three pathways. One destination. Three sisters are abandoned in the middle of a forest by their father. Facing an uncertain future, one decides to walk one way around the world, one decides to walk the other way and one decides to stay right where she is. After 20 years having crossed oceans, toppled lighthouses and conquered Vikings – the two wanderers find themselves back at the same place in the woods, where the third sister waits…