GET COMFORTABLE FROM NOVEMBER 21 TO 27 AT CYT
posted november 09, 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

canberra youth theatre will not shoot the messenger!
posted october 16, 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 september 27, 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.

winter holiday workshops are fast approaching!
posted june 27, 2007
CYT is running Drama workshops in the upcoming Winter Holidays for ages 7-9 and 10-12. The workshops will both be packed full of fun drama games as they work towards creating a short performance for the end of the week for family and friends.

Act It! Sing It! Move It! for 10 - 12 year olds and runs 10.00am - 3.00pm Monday July 9 to Friday July 13
Make It Up! for 7 - 9 year olds and runs 10am to 3pm Monday July 16 to Friday July 20.
Call the office on 6248 5057 for more information!

FALL INTO CANBERRA YOUTH THEATRE THIS AUTUMN!
posted march 14, 2007
CYT is running Drama workshops in the upcoming Autumn Holidays for ages 7-9 and 10-12. The workshops will both be packed full of fun drama games as they work towards creating a short performance for the end of the week for family and friends.

BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

SEMESTER 1 in 2007
posted december 11, 2006
We have just released the details of our Drama Workshops, Acting Classes and Productions for Semester 1 in 2007!

Feel free contact us at the office on 6248 5057 if you would like us to post you a brochure otherwise have a look inside this website for details and an enrolment form.

In a nutshell we are running: - Drama workshops and Acting classes for ages 7-25 - An acting ensemble for the over 18’s which will meet every Saturday for training, applications due 19th Feb and auditions are on Saturday 24th February - A special collaborative project called On-Line Soap in which participants will write, film and edit the second episode of a soap opera that will be cast on the web. Youth Theatres from around Australia are doing various episodes. - A production called Moving Beyond in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation in which participants will explore the daily triumphs and struggles of those living with mental illness. - A youth run performance event at The Folk Festival called hiJinx, so join in for boisterous celebration or merrymaking and unrestrained fun - 7 Professional Development workshops run by leading Australian arts practitioners in conjunction with The Street Theatre. Details are listed in “Other” in our program and in the CYT and The Street Theatre brochures. - An opportunity for young independent artists/companies to develop a project in our theatre space called Open House

Office Closed for Christmas
posted december 11, 2006
The CYT office will be closed for business from the 15th December and will reopen on the 15th January 2007.

The Moth Tree: an awesome adventure
posted december 11, 2006
CYT concluded 2006 with a magical production by sixteen energetic 9-12 year olds. The Moth Tree was a collaborative production devised by the participants with emerging director Tim Hansen, and then written by an emerging writer from Sydney, Shiereen Magsalin. As reviewer Peter Wilkins from The Canberra Times wrote, the mythical tale was “thoroughly engaging and heart-warming, to be enjoyed by young and old alike”. A HUGE congratulations to the cast and crew who all worked very hard to create and bring the story of The Moth Tree alive.

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!
posted november 01, 2006
Canberra Youth Theatre production finally has a name…

For 10 weeks now an energetic group of 9-12 year olds have been busy creating characters and devising an original story based on an “Awesome Adventure”. Weekly they meet, with local Director Tim Hansen and a young emerging writer from Sydney Shiereen Magsalin, to workshop their ideas, developing plot lines and improvising encounters between characters of their own imaginings. The project began with the working title “Awesome Adventure” and now after much discussion the cast is excited to announce that their play will be entitled The Moth Tree. With the arrival of the name comes the first draft of the script which the cast will spend the second week of their holidays rehearsing and further developing.

The Moth Tree is a quest story set in a distant place, in a quiet part of the world, where the ancient and beautiful Algoma City lies. Since the very beginning of time the city has been protected by moths that grow on an enchanted tree. Until now the city has been a haven of harmony and a place of gentle joy. However, a band of villains have hatched a wicked plot to bring the city to its knees. All that stands against the coming darkness are a ragged pair of unlikely young heroes...

The Moth Tree opens on Tuesday 5th December until 12th December at the C Block Theatre, Gorman House, Braddon. Call the CYT office for tickets or more information 6248 5057.