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A word from the AD
I am overwhelmed by how much is going on at RYT in the next few months. We are bursting with events and activities and are so busy we hardly have had time to put this newsletter together, but there is too much to tell you!
It seems so long ago but I must mention Colliding Worlds – the Wireless Voices Radio Play. I had the best time working on this project, from the school workshops to rehearsals with my fantastic cast and the live performance with Peter Goers. It was an absolute delight to direct this production and to be part of Come Out 09. Via the online podcast I have had friends in the UK, USA, Canada and across Australia listen in and they have all loved it – Thank you to all involved, at every stage, for being part of such an amazing project.
Since then there has been much traveling. Brett and I represented RYT at the Australian Theatre Forum in Melbourne – An amazing meeting of over 200 leaders, managers and artists from the national theatre sector. I attended Young People and the Arts Australia Youth Sector Forum as part of Come Out 09 with other Youth Arts practitioners from around the country. Toni (Finance), Nic Tubb (Board Member), Alysha Herrmann (Youth Rep) and five Colliding Worlds cast members met me in Adelaide to attend 3 performances and 2 exhibitions on a Come Out 09 Road Trip. Freaky by Cirkidz and Circus Monoxide was the favorite of the day. Brett and I (plus many other RYT’s) attended Urban Myth’s Out of the Boot season of new work – featuring a beautiful new play by our own Alysha Herrmann. Finally, last week, Alysha, Nic and I led a Road Trip to Adelaide with 6 youth members to see Mnemonic by the State Theatre Co and The Wizard of Oz by Windmill. The productions offered lots of new ideas about performance and staging and it was a great fun day.
So for now we are staying closer to home. Coming up are four fantastic EAT workshops; RYT’s first foray as a Country Arts SA Presenter Group, (presenting small touring productions at the Renmark Institute) – A Country Dance; we’re hosting a Riverland Open Mic Night for budding musicians and singers; The YELP launch; ArtSpace – an open studio by young people of the Riverland, as part of SALA; Bell Shakespeare Regional Performance Scholarship Auditions; Riverland Field Days Video AD Challenge; and Playfest_09 - the Riverland’s very own community arts festival of theatre dance and film. Oh and then I’m also starting work on RYT’s next major production BigSmoke for ages 5-8 years. So we should stay out of trouble. Read more information in the following pages and I hope to see you at RYT soon, participating, watching or supporting one or many of these exciting events.
Best, Julie