Canberra Youth Theatre is the longest established youth theatre in Australia with a high profile and an unequalled reputation in theatre creation. Since 1972 CYT has provided young people age 7-25 with the opportunity to explore, extend and develop their creativity through theatre workshops and productions. We create works that encourage participants to voice their ideas and promote their experience of the world. Young people work with professional artists to unleash their imaginations in order to create exciting, fun and challenging theatre.

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holiday workshops are go! posted 18/03/2008 Canberra Youth Theatre has realised it's ever exciting holiday workshop program for the April school holidays! Keep an eye out for one of our jazzed up fliers, or head to the program page and check out Wavey Tales for 7 - 9 year olds, or TADAH! for 10 - 12 year olds. get comfortable from november 21 to 27 at cyt posted 09/11/2007 BOOK NOW! AUDIENCE PLACES ARE LIMITED! “There is no Mystery so great as Misery.” The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde Comfort is a theatrical tale of compassion, which invites the audience to embark on an interactive journey. It is an installation-based group-devised performance created by Canberra Youth Theatre that looks at the greatest crime of humanity – passivity. Comfort invites us to look outwards rather than follow the self help trend to look within. The creation of comfort has been a dynamic process involving forty young people aged 13-25 and five professional artists at Canberra Youth Theatre. Louise Morris a Melbourne-based installation artist, Sound Artist Kimmo Vennonen, Video Artist Stephen Barker, and directors barb barnett and Pip Buining have been collaborating with the CYT participants to generate a theatrical reflection of their collective notions of comfort. What we have come to understand is that every moment of every day we seek to be in a state of comfort: physically, emotionally, psychologically and materially. We strive to create our own worlds of comfort. In our world of comfort, we justify wars to feel safe about our borders, we spend money we don’t have to fill expensive homes we don’t own, we shut our doors in the name of self-preservation and we speak of celebrities like they are our friends. Comfort asks the question: how willing are we to look outside our “pleasure domes” for the benefit of others? When: 8pm 21-27 NOVEMBER 2007 Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon Cost: $15 Adults/ $10 Concession Tickets are limited. Bookings 6248 5057 Dress: For Comfort For more information contact Pip Buining, Artistic Director, Canberra Youth Theatre pip@cytc.net or 6248 5057 production: comfort canberra youth theatre will not shoot the messenger! posted 16/10/2007 Come along to CYT on Thursday 18th October at 6.30pm to meet Ross Mueller, the Melbourne based playwright who is undertaking the adaptation of Markus Zusak’s The Messenger. The Messenger will be our major production for 2008. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to informally meet Ross and learn more about the play and how you could be involved and/or inspired. comfort posted 27/09/2007 "If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door." Canberra Youth Theatre is currently creating Comfort, its major production for the year. Comfort is an installation based performance which examines our ideas of comfort. Comfort looks at the greatest crime of humanity – the crime of passivity. Comfort provides the young people of CYT aged 13-25 with the opportunity to work with a dynamic creative team: Directors Pip Buining & barb barnett, Installation Artist Louise Morris, Associate Artist Antonia Aitken, Video Artist Stephen Barker and Sound Artist Kimmo Vennonen. Comfort will be on at the C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, November 21-27. production: comfort more news...