2016 Winter Holiday Workshops

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Week 1 School Years K-2 School Years 3-4 School Years 3-6 School Years 5-6 School Years 5-7 School Years 7-9 School Years 9-12 Preschool Weekend Workshop Week 2 School Years K-2 School Years 3-4 School Years 3-6 School Years 5-6 School Years 5-7 School Years 7-9 School Years 8-11 School Years 10-12 ATYP Scholarships About Partners & Supporters Contact

*Earlybird finishes Fri 6 June 5pm

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WELCOME TO WINTER AT ATYP! I am thrilled to be able to launch ATYP’s Winter Holiday Program for 2016.

This winter, our juniors will be excited to hear the circus is coming to town! Along with it, the opportunity to explore the world of Roald Dahl, return to the Land of Oz, delve into some classic musicals and so much more.

Our senior students can get in front or behind the camera with our short film making course or screen acting class. Perhaps you want to get into theatremaking with our Rebel Wilson scholarship winner Yve Blake, or focus on your investigative scene work?

It is such an exciting time to be involved in ATYP. Our shows are getting rave reviews, our community is as strong as ever, and many of the industry’s most exciting, award-winning professionals are ready and willing to share their skills and experiences with you all.

Can’t wait to see you all down here at the wharf soon!

Robert Jago Workshop Manager

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School Years K–2

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Roll Up! Roll Up! Roll up! Roll up! The Circus is in town! But there’s a problem… we’ve lost our ringmasters and performers! The show must go on, so we need your help! What will you be – the ringmaster, a plate twirler, trapeze artist, lion tamer, or maybe even the lion? Spend the week learning all about the circus, developing characters and creating a story, and bring all your skills together to produce The Greatest Show on Earth right here on The Wharf!

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

School Years 3–4

How to Hide an Alien Camping out with your friends one night you all discover the unthinkable – a lost alien who is scared and needs to find his way home! What will you all do?

You want to help but no one else can know about him or they’ll take him away! Investigate themes of home, teamwork, and together work out how to keep this alien safe. Learn skills in characterisation, devising and storytelling, and by the end of the week you will have devised a show that is sure to captivate your family and friends.

*Earlybird finishes Friday 17 June 5pm

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

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School Years 5–6

We Will Survive

Matilda and the Big Friendly Peach Factory Get inspired by some of this author’s most famous tales (Matilda, The Witches, The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and more), this winter we will be creating our own magical and imaginative world.

We’ll begin with his books (and musical), and then using our powers of improvisation and devising, we will create our own characters, worlds and stories to share with our audience at the end of the week.

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue Glebe Public School, Derwent St Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

School Years 3–6

How did we end up here?

Where is everybody else?

Something very strange is going on and we can only look to ourselves to survive!

Explore a post-apocalyptic world and decide what it might look like. Investigate the theme of survival, learn how to create tension, and discover characterisation and storytelling techniques. By the end of the week use all of these skills to create a show for your family and friends.

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

School Years 5–7

Musical Theatre – From Rags to Riches

TOP SECRET! Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Spend a week cracking codes, writing letters in invisible ink, moving about undetected, and collecting top-secret material. Of course, every famous spy needs to bring down a famous villain who is out to conquer the world! Explore the theme of secrecy, come up with your own agent name and number, uncover secret hideouts and create whacky gadgets. Taking inspiration from shows such as Spy Kids, Pink Panther and Get Smart, devise, write and perform a show ready to premiere to your friends and family at the end of the week.

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Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

Explore the archetypal rags to riches stories of some of our favourite musicals. Matilda, Annie and of course Oliver.

What common traits do these musicals have? What types of characters are you drawn to?

Spend a week learning skills in voice, characterisation and storytelling. Use the songs of these great musicals as inspiration to create your own story, and perform a moving and fun piece for your family and friends at the end of the week.

*Earlybird finishes Friday 17 June 5pm

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Seymour Centre, Chippendale Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $370 Earlybird $350*

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School Years 7–9

School Years 9–12

Short Film – The Secret

Screen Acting

Filmmaking is becoming ever more accessible and popular.

These holidays, we are devising around the theme of The Secret. Learn how to create tension and suspense through camera techniques, and work both in front and behind the camera. There are cafes, alleyways, theatres – what will you write and where will you create your masterpiece?

During the week you will scout locations, write your own script and shot list based on what you find, and direct and perform in your own short film.

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue Redfern Town Hall, Pitt St, Redfern Time 10am – 4pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

Explore the difference between acting for the stage and the screen. Learn how so much can be said in just a look, discover techniques that can give you the edge in giving a more truthful performance, learn how stage can help screen acting and screen can help stage acting.

Using modern scripts you’ll put your new skills into practice by filming yourself and analysing your work as you watch it back.

At the end of the week perform your scenes live for your family and friends!

Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 10am – 4pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

Ages 4&5

School Years 7–9

Weekend Workshop: Treasure Hunters

Skitting Around

From Laurel & Hardy, Monty Python, The Goonies, Little Britain, Saturday Night Live, all the way through to The Chaser, sketch comedy has been making us laugh forever. Get the edge you need in comedy, learn to write your own original sketch, play with improvisation techniques, physical comedy and a whole lot more. Have your friends and family rolling in the aisles at the end of the week with a variety of sketches and learn the form that has produced the likes of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and of course ATYP alumni Rebel Wilson and Chris Lilley.

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Dates Mon 04 July – Fri 08 July (5 Days) Venue The Seymour Centre, Chippendale Time 10am – 4pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

All aboard and set sail for the high seas because we are on a treasure hunt! Spend two fun days exploring islands, drawing maps, and of course collecting treasure. Enjoy hearing stories of pirates, mermaids and much more. Let our youngest actors spend the weekend expanding their imaginations, making craft and new friends. On the last day there will be a showing of the adventures they have been up to!

Dates Sat 09 July – Sun 10 July (2 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 12.30pm Price $100

*Earlybird finishes Friday 17 June 5pm

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School Years K–2

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The Baker’s Bread Have you been down to the bakery lately? There’s something going on. The bread and sweets are amazing, but people are different afterwards. What are the baker’s special ingredients and what affect is his food having on the town? Spend a week creating your own village of people, learn storytelling and characterisation techniques, and create a fable to present to your family and friends at the end of the week.

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

School Years K–2

A Shipwrecked Story Oh I do love to be beside the sea side, oh I do love to be beside the – Oh no what’s that?! A huge wave has shipwrecked you and your crewmates onto a mysterious island that no one has been to before! On this island you discover a cave full of rock paintings – clues to how you can survive and how to get to safety. Spend a week exploring and creating a new world, and with your friends devise a show to perform at the end of the program.

*Earlybird finishes Friday 17 June 5pm

Dates Mon 11 July – Tue 12 July (2 Days) Venue Glebe Public School, Derwent St Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $180 Earlybird $170*

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School Years 3–4

School Years 3–6

The World of Oz

The Abandoned House

Strap yourself in as you get thrown into a tornado that takes you back to the land of Oz. Revisit some of your favourite characters such as Scarecrow, Tin Man, the Munchkins or perhaps even Dorothy herself.

Why have you had to go back, and what problems need fixing in the Emerald City this time? Enjoy developing story telling skills, improvisation and characterisation techniques and create a show sure to transport your family and friends at the end of the week.

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue Redfern Town Hall, Pitt St, Redfern Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

You moved into a new home and it’s a house that has been abandoned for years. On your first night sleeping there things don’t seem quite right. Who used to live here and why did they leave? What did they used to do in here? What rooms will you discover? Enjoy developing story telling skills, devising and characterisation techniques to create a show that solves this mystery for your family and friends.

School Years 3–4

School Years 5–6

Crazy Castles

Be Inspired by Shaun Tan

Ever wanted to play the part of a King or Queen? Perhaps you’ve wanted to be a Knight or the Court Jester? Here’s your chance but there is a catch – this castle is not your average castle. This castle just happens to be a little bit crazy.

During the week you will see a production of The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Learn storytelling techniques, create crazy characters and with your class produce a performance sure to have your family and friends giggling all the way home.

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $380 Earlybird $360*

Spend the week learning about the work of Australia’s own Shaun Tan. His amazing picture books such as The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia and the Oscar winning short film The Lost Thing have an ability to move audiences and make them see the world through a different lens. Discover the common themes throughout his work. Learn devising skills, character creation and create a play inspired by the work of this great Australian artist.

(incl. ticket to show)

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Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Seymour Centre, Chippendale Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Seymour Centre, Chippendale Time 9.30am – 3.30pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

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School Years 5–7

School Years 7–9

A Case of Deja vu!

Voice and Accents

What if you knew what was coming before it actually happened? Even though you’ve never been here before it feels like you have. It’s like you’re trapped in a time warp destined to see the same events happen again, and again, and again. Use this week to explore themes of time travel, repetition and sliding doors. Learn storytelling and characterisation techniques to create an amazing show for your family and friends at the end of the week.

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 9.30am – 3.30pm

These sessions will explore vocal technique, confidence and range, as well as accent training. Students will begin to free and strengthen their voices by finding the connection between voice, the body and emotion. There will also be special attention paid to vocal warm ups, characterisation through vocal ability and clear and concise delivery.

Price $350 Earlybird $330* School Years 8–11

What Happened to Alex Barton?

Young Women’s Theatre Lab - Yve Blake Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 10.00am – 4.00pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

Dates Wed 13 July – Fri 15 July (3 Days) Venue Glebe Public School, Derwent St Time 10.00am – 4.00pm Price $270 Earlybird $250*

School Years 7–9

Did you hear about Alex Barton?

They were here one day and gone the next. They literally vanished into thin air! Together you and your class mates have taken it upen yourselves to solve this mystery. What clues did Alex leave behind? What are the conspiracy theories going around school? Spend a week exploring the mystery genre and themes of loss, rumours and urban myths. At the end of the week you will have an intriguing showing for your family and friends.

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Rebel Wilson Theatremaker Scholarship winner Yve Blake is creating a new show all about what it truly feels like to be a teenage girl in 2016. What’s old, what’s new, what’s excellent about it, and what’s awks. The key ingredients of this show will be true stories, playlists, and the internet. This one-off workshop will be a chance to learn about a professional artistic devising process, and develop a toolkit of musthave skills in storytelling and collaboration. At the end of the week you’ll present a showing of your work.

Places for this workshop are strictly limited, and are available to girls only

*Earlybird finishes Friday 17 June 5pm

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 10.00am – 4.00pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

School Years 10–12

Investigative Scene Work This course takes you all the way from a first script read, to getting up on the floor and performing. Discover the characterisation and emotional clues the playwright has placed in the script, and get an insight into how professional actors work in a rehearsal room. Explore blocking, and new acting techniques to help maximise your scene. At the end of the week you will present your rehearsed scenes for your family and friends.

*Earlybird finishes Friday 17 June 5pm

Dates Mon 11 July – Fri 15 July (5 Days) Venue The Wharf, Hickson Rd Walsh Bay Time 10am – 4pm Price $350 Earlybird $330*

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ATYP aims to provide up to 10% of all holiday workshop places to young people from financially and geographically disadvantaged backgrounds. Please email hello@atyp.com.au to request an application form.

These places are made available each year thanks to the generosity of our supporters.

You can support the ATYP Scholarship Fund. Your donation ensures access → for all young people Show your support to the benefits of A donation to ATYP drama: engaging supports the next generation their own creativity of theatre-makers. as well as improving atyp.com.au/support communication and social skills, and increasing confidence and self-esteem.

Please contact Andrew Deane development@atyp.com.au or give online at atyp.com.au/scholarship-fund

Scholarship Partners ATYP partners with The Girls and Boys Brigade to identify young people in greatest need of workshop scholarships.

Scholarships are also available to individual applicants from finacially and geographically disadvantaged backgrounds. Please contact Rob Jago for more information rob@atyp.com.au

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Staff

Tutors

Artistic Director Fraser Corfield General Manager Amy Maiden Finance Manager Kate di Mattina Development Manager Andrew Deane Marketing Manager Kar Chalmers Workshop Manager Robert Jago Education Manager Adèle Jeffreys Production Manager Lauren Makin Finance & Operations Co-ordinator Chrissy Riley Education Co-ordinator Rowan Bate Marketing & Development Co-ordinator Elise Barton Writing Co-ordinator Jennifer Medway Graphic Designer Justin Stambouliah Administration Assistant Odetta Quinn Archivist Judith Seeff Geek-in-Residence Daniel Andrews Writer-in-Residence Lewis Treston

Jacob Allan

Sophie Kelly

George Banders

Luke Kerridge

Sorie Bangura

Amy Kersey

Guillaume

Danielle King

Barriere Hilary Bell Ana Maria Belo

Matt Levett Caleb Lewis Brendan

Yve Blake

McDonall

Justin Buchta

Felicity McKay

Simon Burke

Danielle O’Keefe

Mitchell Butel

Sam O’Sullivan

Laura Buxton

Grace Partridge

Heather

Jena Prince

Campbell Lauren Claire Briallen Clarke Rachel Coopes Michael Cullen

Alex Lee-Rekers Natalie Richards Kate Skinner Eloise Snape Clara Solly-

Drew Fairley

Slade

Curtis

Chris Tomkinson

Fernandez Bronwyn Davies Glover Luisa Hastings

Jessica Tovey Laura Turner Jo Turner

Edge

Kate Walder

David Harrison

Kate Worsley

Honora Jenkins

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*Earlybird finishes Fri 6 June 5pm