01 Contents 03 Introduction from the ATYP Artistic Director and Head of Learning 07 Secondary Theatre Flat-Pack Student Workshops: Secondary Intersection Festival Teacher Professional Learning with Theatre Specialists
ATYP On Demand: Secondary Work Experience
19 Primary Student Workshops: Primary Theatre Flat-Pack
ATYP On Demand: Primary
ATYP On Demand Plus 24 Productions
The Resistance CUSP 28 Support 29 Sign Up
M.Rock School matinee, 2022. Photo by Erica Penollar.
In 2023, ATYP celebrates a milestone. The national youth theatre company celebrates its 60th birthday! We are the oldest theatre company dedicated to young people in Australia and one of the longest-running in the world.
So what does that mean for you? Well… it means you are in safe hands with ATYP.
Whether you are bringing your students to see a show or inviting our Teaching Artists into your school, we understand how to link learning with inspiration. We’re very good at it, and so we should be – we’ve been doing it for a very long time.
For six decades, ATYP has been connecting young people and teachers with Australia’s leading professional artists. Our work has changed the way we create theatre for children and young people in this country and has launched careers for some of Australia’s most famous faces. ATYP combines professional theatre processes with inclusive, supportive, child-centred learning practices. In the process, we
create extraordinary theatre and workshop experiences.
The ATYP Foundation Commission plays, published by Playlab Theatre, sell more than 3,000 copies to schools across the country every year. Our series of short plays for the classroom contained in The Voices Project and Intersection collections, available through Currency Press, sell more than 1,000 copies to schools every year.
ATYP’s major productions have won every major Australian theatre award for Artistic Excellence. This year The Guardian newspaper listed ‘The 15 greatest Australian musicals, on stage and screen’ … and two of them were commissioned and developed by ATYP (FANGIRLS and The Deb)
Contact Jacqui Cowell and our Education team to discuss how the national youth theatre company can support you to inspire the next generation of artists and audiences.
Fraser Corfield ATYP Artistic Director
Photo by Luke Stambouliah.
I’m thrilled to introduce ATYP’s exciting 2023 Education program – one we have crafted in response to conversations with teachers and students around what has had the most impact.
As we move into our second year at our new home in Pier 2/3, we are seeing a huge period of growth in our national education programs. This series of in-person and digital offerings and unique theatre experiences for schools will excite and engage teachers and students Australia-wide.
We’re delighted to once again offer Theatre Flat-Pack, where we co-produce an ATYP play with you at your school. An industry theatre director works with you and your students on your choice of play, supporting you every step of the way from auditions, to rehearsals, to opening night. After a series of successful Theatre Flat-Pack programs in schools in 2022, we’re excited to already be planning Theatre Flat-Pack with teachers for 2023.
After a successful pilot year, Intersection Festival is back by popular demand, giving teachers
and students the opportunity to work with ATYP to present new Australian stories. Your students will work on and perform new short plays, specifically written for young people, to be showcased at the annual Intersection Festival at The Rebel Theatre in Pier 2/3.
We continue to offer our acclaimed Student Workshop program for 2023. These workshops can be delivered at your school, in one of our new workshop studios at Pier 2/3, or online via Zoom to wherever you are in Australia. We have a list of renowned theatre and drama workshops available for your students and can tailor a workshop that suits your needs.
In 2023, our free ATYP On Demand digital platform will have new streamed productions and workshops. Make sure you’re subscribed as new content is added throughout the year. This includes a Director’s Series presented by Fraser Corfield and other ATYP creatives.
ATYP On Demand Plus, our national digital education platform, provides complete units
of work and video resources for primary teachers linked to areas of the curriculum, taught through drama and literacy exercises. There are six complete units of work for teachers including First Nations Connections (History), Waves of Migration (History), Bringing Poetry Alive (English) and Our Changing Environment (Science).
An exciting part of our 2023 program is school performances in the Rebel Theatre, with productions of The Resistance and CUSP. Give your students an inspiring theatre experience with plays created specifically for young people and schools.
Please contact our Education team about any of the in-person and digital programs on offer for 2023. We can’t wait to engage with you online, collaborate with your school, show you around our fabulous new workshop studios, and welcome you to your seat at The Rebel Theatre.
Jacqui Cowell Head of Learning Photo by Luke Stambouliah.
as part of Theatre Flat-Pack, 2022. Photo by Clare Hawley.
The Chapel, the Fire and the Dead Cat at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts
Unbox your next big production!
Theatre Flat-Pack gives you everything you need to stage an ATYP production at your school. Our team will work with you from the very beginning; from choosing the play, to scheduling auditions and rehearsals, and getting you ready for opening night!
Taking place over one to two terms, Theatre Flat-Pack can be customised to suit your school’s specific needs.
Not only is this a great opportunity for students to work with an industry Theatre Director but Drama teachers can also use the program for their own professional learning, gaining new skills and processes for directing theatre.
As part of Theatre Flat-Pack, you and your students will receive an online workshop with the playwright or ATYP’s Resident Dramaturg, which includes a reading of the play and a discussion of its ideas and characters.
Theatre Flat-Pack includes:
An ATYP play
ATYP management of the production rights*
An ATYP Theatre Director (the director will have 50 hours of rehearsal time)
For an additional cost –an ATYP Designer and/or Stage Manager
*The licensing cost of two performances is included in the price. The school will be required to pay a $165 licensing fee for each additional performance.
Cost: $9,000
This cost includes staffing, administration and production rights.
Theatre Flat-Pack is available all year. Regional and interstate bookings are dependent on Director availability in your area.
See the suite of available plays, enquire, and book here.
workshop with Kirrawee High School, 2022. Photo by Bec Herkess.
ATYP’s dynamic Student Workshops are in high demand and better than ever! Book in for one of our popular workshops, customised to support your curriculum needs and provide an engaging and fun experience for your students.
Delivered by ATYP’s industry Teaching Artists, workshops can be tailored to your students’ level of experience, making them perfect for introducing your class to new approaches or building upon a unit of work you are currently teaching.
Student Workshops can take place at Pier 2/3, at your school, or online.
Booking a Workshop: Complete the online booking form and a member of the ATYP Education team will be in contact to discuss your workshop.
Artists in Residence: If you are looking for a longer engagement, are in a regional area, or have large year groups, why not consider an Artist in Residence? Please contact the Education team to discuss your needs.
Who is it for: Years 7–12 Maximum 30 students
Cost: Prices start at $460 for a 2-hour workshop.
The HSC program includes a suite of HSC Drama Workshops available throughout the year.
HSC Drama Workshops are designed to offer students a practical experience linked to Drama curriculum areas and topics from the HSC Drama course. The workshops explore content related to the Group Performance, the Individual Project, and Drama topics through an experiential workshop.
Each session is led by an ATYP Teaching Artist with expertise in the chosen topic and can be customised to focus on the texts, performance styles, or practitioners studied by your class.
You will also receive an accompanying Teacher’s Resource when booking an HSC Drama Workshop. The resource includes discussion questions and further practical exercises for your chosen topic that will assist you in delivering class lessons with your students.
Who is it for: Years 11–12
Maximum 30 students
Cost: Prices start at $460 for a 2-hour workshop.
Full-day workshop package starts at $950. Book your student workshop.
ATYP Intersection Festival, 2022. Photo by Georgia McGinness.
Where writing, performance, and education meet.
Intersection Festival gives students and teachers the opportunity to work with ATYP to present brand new Australian stories and showcase their work in our state-of-the-art Rebel Theatre.
This program offers students the chance to develop their acting and staging skills by working on new scripts written by emerging Australian Playwrights in ATYP’s National Studio program. Plus, Intersection Festival provides professional learning opportunities for teachers to refine their skills in directing. The Festival culminates in the Rebel Theatre where students present new short plays specifically written for young actors.
The hugely successful 2022 Intersection Festival gave students the opportunity to perform in a semi-professional showcase to a completely sold-out theatre. Join us in 2023 for another actionpacked Intersection Festival for you and your students!
“Everything was so positive and the kids are still buzzing from it. The whole team was professional, supportive and made our young people feel confident and important. Thank you!” Clare Anstey, Katoomba High School
“It has increased their confidence and passion for performance.
I was super proud of what my students achieved. It also fed well into my teaching program, giving me new and current material to explore.”
Cate Whittle, St Ives High School
Who is it for: Years 8–11
What schools receive: By registering, you will receive the following resources:
• 10 new Australian short plays written for young people.
• A complete guide on ‘How to read and discuss a script’.
• Access to ATYP’s Directors’ Series; a series of videos on directing theatre for young people.
• Early access to the currently unpublished Intersection 2023: Undercurrent short plays.
• Registration closing date:
Term 1 – Week 8
Friday 17 March, 2023
• Video submissions due:
Term 2 – Week 10
Friday 30 June, 2023
• Festival date:
Term 3 – Week 3
Tuesday 1 August, 2023*
*With a possible second evening of performances on Wednesday 2 August, 2023.
Cost: $200 per school (8 play entries max + resources)
Check out the Intersection Festival process and register your school on our website.
After a sold-out series in 2022, ATYP is excited to once again offer a suite of Professional Learning workshops for teachers featuring theatre specialists.
VERBATIM THEATRE MASTERCLASS: PARRAMATTA GIRLS AND SHAFANA AND AUNT SARRINAH WITH ALANA VALENTINE
Term 1, Week 8 – Tuesday 14 March, 2023 6pm – 8pm Cost: $65 Delivery: Online via Zoom
DEVISING A GROUP PERFORMANCE
WITH FRASER CORFIELD Term 1, Week 8 – Saturday 18 March, 2023 9.30am – 12pm Cost: $80 (or both sessions for $150) Delivery: In-person Where: ATYP, Pier 2/3
PHYSICAL CONTACT AND EMOTIONAL INTIMACY IN THE DRAMA CLASSROOM
Term 1, Week 8 – Saturday 18 March, 2023 1pm – 3.30pm Cost: $80 (or both sessions for $150) Delivery: In-person Where: ATYP, Pier 2/3
BREAKING DOWN A SCRIPT 101 WITH GEORGE KEMP Term 2, Week 3 – Monday 8 May, 2023 5.30pm – 8pm Cost: $75 Delivery: In-person Where: ATYP, Pier 2/3
Book Semester 1 Teacher Professional Learning Semester 2 Teacher Professional Learning with Theatre Specialists will be announced in early 2023.
On Demand filming, 2021. Photo by Erica Penollar.
High-quality theatre in your classroom, whenever you want it, for free!
ATYP On Demand is our digital classroom and the best of its kind. The platform is designed to make it easy for you to include quality, relevant theatre in your lessons no matter where you are across the country. When you sign up for FREE, you receive unlimited access to a growing library of high quality, live-streamed productions as well as curriculum-linked support material.
The Secondary branch of ATYP On Demand offers productions that are specifically written for high-school age students allowing them to see themselves reflected on stage and hear stories that are relevant to their lives.
Of particular interest to Secondary teachers is the Director’s Series, featuring ATYP Artistic Director, Fraser Corfield, and notable ATYP creatives. This resource is a carefully crafted Professional Learning tool that gives you unique insight into how to direct and work with young people.
Teachers and students currently working at or enrolled in an Australian school or tertiary training institution can sign up today at atypondemand.com.au
In 2023, ATYP is pleased to offer an immersive Work Experience program at our home in Pier 2/3. Students will join the ATYP team for an entire week to find out just what it takes to run a professional theatre company. Students in Year 10 or Year 11 who have an interest in Drama or Entertainment are invited to apply to be one of 16 students taking part in this unique experience.
During Work Experience, students will take part in practical sessions around acting, directing, design, marketing, development, producing, education, and writing to explore the day-to-day operations of a theatre company. They will also work in groups throughout the week on a project that they will present to ATYP staff; a pitch for a show they would like to put on as their newly formed ‘theatre company’.
Entry by application only. Students in regional/interstate schools are encouraged to apply, however, ATYP is unable to cover travel and accommodation costs.
Dates: Term 3, Week 7 Monday 28 August – Friday 1 September, 2023
Work Experience applications open in March 2023 via the ATYP website.
“The best thing was meeting a bunch of theatre-lovers with whom we could all share our unique love for theatre. In doing this, we met professional creatives giving insights into all sorts of subsets of theatre – we were immersed into their craft (directing, designing, acting, producing, dramaturgy). I hope that one day I can inspire people everyday through theatre and experiences like those provided to use through work experience.” Marc De Iorio, St Aloysius College 2022 Work Experience Student
ATYP Workshops, 2022. Photo by Clare Hawley.
ATYP creates Primary-focused Student Workshops aimed to encourage and engage students from Kindergarten to Year 6. The workshops provide students with practical experiences in specific areas of drama. ATYP Teaching Artists will create a fun, safe, and educational workshop for you and your students.
Primary Student Workshops can take place at Pier 2/3, at your school, or online.
CUSTOMISE your own workshop. Complete the online booking form and a member of the ATYP Education team will be in contact to discuss your workshop.
Who is it for: Years K–6 Maximum 30 students Cost: Prices start at $460 for a 2-hour workshop.
Full-day workshop package starts at $950.
On Demand features engaging productions catering to students in later primary years. Driven by our ATYP Foundation Commission program, the works for Primary students are written with them in mind, ensuring that your students experience captivating and relevant theatre.
Primary teachers can also utilise the Workshop Series, created to explore approaches to drama in your classroom. It contains a series of warm ups and activities you can use to help students understand and develop playbuilding skills.
Teachers and students currently working at or enrolled in an Australian school or tertiary training institution can sign up today at atypondemand.com.au
“An online resource is beneficial in supporting teachers with our planning along with having examples of performances and activities that have been provided by ATYP to reinforce key ideas. ATYP On Demand supports and extends our students’ learning.”
Laura Keech, Teacher, Tocumwal Public School, NSW
ATYP On Demand Plus is a digital platform that provides Primary educators access to a series of detailed, multi-week units of work that use Drama and Literacy exercises to teach content and concepts of the F-6 Australian curriculum. The program has been developed with academics from The University of Sydney, Professor Emerita Robyn Ewing AM, Dr Catherine Smyth and Dr Alison O’Grady.
In 2023, subscribed schools will have access to six complete units of work and accompanying resources linked to the following Australian Curriculum areas:
Past and Present: F–2
First Nations Connections: Years 3–4 Waves of Migration: Year 5–6
ENGLISH
Teaching Poetry through Drama: Years 3–6 (In collaboration with Poetry in Action)
Our Changing Environment: Years 5–6
Me and You (Understanding Ourselves & Others): F–2
Each eight-week unit of work includes instructional videos featuring ATYP Teaching Artists that you can use for your own professional learning or to show students in the classroom as examples. All activities in the units are linked to Australian and State Curriculum content and concepts, making it easy to integrate the resources into programs and lessons.
Schools subscribed to ATYP On Demand Plus will be invited to exclusive online teacher events throughout the year. These events include interviews with authors and seminars with academics including Professor Emerita Robyn Ewing AM on teaching crosscurricular programs and Literacy and Drama strategies in the classroom.
ATYP On Demand Plus Cost: Subscription per school for schools with an ICSEA value over 1001: $500
Subscription per school for schools with an ICSEA value of 1000 or less: $450
This is an introductory price for your first year subscribed to ATYP On Demand Plus. Each subscription has a duration of 12 months, at which time schools will be offered a renewal.
Check out ATYP On Demand Plus today.
Enrich your experience.
ATYP offers face-to-face On Demand Plus workshops with Teaching Artists delivering a lesson or a complete On Demand Plus unit of work to your students in the classroom. The Teaching Artist works with the teacher in a co-teaching capacity, providing a professional learning opportunity for the teacher. In-school workshops are available in metro and regional areas and can be delivered online over Zoom.
To enquire about having ATYP On Demand Plus at your school please fill in the online form at atypondemand.com.au or email education@atyp.com.au
“The material itself was really great quality...It helped our students to engage with often very abstract concepts in that part of the curriculum, but turned them into very concrete physical experiences which helped them to engage with it in a much better and much deeper way. Things they remember and keep talking about. It’s wonderful to find a resource that has everything involved. You don’t have to go looking for anything extra.” Jane Vaughan, Railway Town Public School, Broken Hill, NSW
On Demand Plus at Willmot Public School, 2021. Photo by Erica Penollar.Marlee’s running late, Hayden is seeking justice, Miro has his head in the clouds and Pepper just wants to blow things up. With this group in charge, it’s no wonder the rally is going nowhere fast. But when Marlee is unexpectedly thrust into the limelight, it suddenly feels as if the whole country is watching. Could these young people maybe save the world?
Set in the arena of the climate justice movement and social media, The Resistance is a giant protest rally exploring the power of friendship, the pain of ambition and the deliciousness of potato chips. Interactive theatre maker Kip Chapman (Destination Mars, APOLLO 13: Mission Control) takes over The Rebel Theatre and immediately destroys the fourth wall, welcoming the audience in on the action.
You are personally invited – in fact, you’re downright encouraged –to jump into this wholehearted theatrical celebration of the power of collective action. And trust us... a lot can happen in 90 minutes.
Put your hand up if you’re ready to save the world.
When: Term 1
15 February – 11 March, 2023
Who is it for: Years 9–12
Where: The Rebel Theatre, Pier 2/3
Schools shows:
11am, Friday 17 February 11am, Wednesday 1 March 11am, Tuesday 7 March
How long: 90 minutes (no interval) + 20 minutes Q&A
Cost: $25* (1 free teacher per 10 students)
Themes and Ideas:
• Youth climate change action
• Bravery
• Finding your voice
• Environmental issues
• The power of friendship
Style:
• Interactive Theatre
• Multi-discipline Theatre
• Comedy
Curriculum links: Stage 4 & 5 Drama – Dramatic Contexts; Playbuilding; Comedy, Street and Environmental Theatre
Stage 6 Drama – Multi-discipline Theatre
As part of ATYP’s 2023 productions we’ve created a special schools package for Onstage week for the interactive play, The Resistance, co-produced by Auckland Theatre Company.
The package includes a student ticket to the schools performance in The Rebel Theatre on Friday 17 February, combined with a 1.5 hour Devising or Multidiscipline Theatre workshop led by Kip Chapman or one of the creative team.
Cost: Performance only: $25 per student*
Performance and workshop: $60 per student^
*Plus $5 booking fee
^Based on 20 students in the group or a minimum workshop cost of $350
How do you move into the future, when your past keeps dragging you backwards?
Elvis wants Rosie. Rosie wants to escape. Maddie doesn’t know what the hell she wants, but it sure isn’t this.
While Rosie balances the needs of her community with her own life dreams, Elvis juggles a life of crime with a tougher path into the straight-and-narrow, and Maddie faces life as a single parent unless she aborts her unborn child.
CUSP juxtaposes the Northern Territory’s vast Top End landscape with the turbulent lives of three emerging adults as they swim against the tide of irrevocable change. Balancing choice versus fate in a world where, as Elvis observes, “Some people just get better choices than others.”
When: Term 2 24 May – 2 June, 2023
Who is it for: Years 10–12
Where: The Rebel Theatre, Pier 2/3
Schools shows: 11am, Wednesday 31 May
How long: 70 minutes + 20 minutes Q&A
Cost: $25* (1 free teacher per 10 students)
*Plus $5 booking fee
ATYP is motivated to improve access for all young Australians to participate in the world of theatre, regardless of economic or geographic barriers. We strive to offer opportunities for young Australians from diverse backgrounds to participate in our innovative, challenging, highquality drama workshops which are transforming young lives.
We encourage teachers from schools that are challenged by financial, socio-economic and geographical barriers to get in contact for funding or subsidy opportunities to access ATYP’s learning programs, including workshops, schools performances and subscriptions to On Demand Plus.
To express your interest, please fill out this online form or email education@atyp.com.au
Jacqui Cowell
learning@atyp.com.au
Education Coordinator George Kemp education@atyp.com.au
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