Industrial wasteland sounds hum through the night; fluro lights flicker outside a warehouse while the industrial fans whir with the wind. The audience enters a derelict warehouse in south west Sydney. They meet Amoeba Ali – The gatekeeper to Australia’s power realm. The town of Fairfield has been taken captive by a force. In order to reclaim Fairfield, a challenge is to be taken up. The audience is to go on a quest to bring back the key. The audience members can pick a character through the various ethnic profiles, they select a combo – a series of characteristics and moves that extends the character’s ability to ‘clear a 100′. The audience have the ability to vote for a map change that will take them to suburbs that are alien and to change surroundings to escape the dreaded ‘authority’.The action begins when Amoeba Ali screams “fight!”.

How Big Is Your Gun? is a large scale performance event, created with young men from western Sydney.

Performance Season: December 2007

Regardless of our age, gender, race or abilities we all have one thing in common- we have all come from somewhere- A Place. How that place differs for each person though is what makes each and everyone of us unique. That place with all its sounds, smells and images stir all kinds of emotions in us some accessible by memory and some remaining just as feelings. It is these places and the emotions and memories strongly attached to them that give an enormous weight to that place and subsequently that place plays a hugely significant and important role in the shaping of our lives and the creating of the person that we are. My Space, My Place is devised with artists and people of mixed abilities This will be Stage 4 of the My Space, My Place project.

Director: Alison Richardson
Design: Kate Shanahan
Performance Season: October 2007

Cronulla Beach, Sydney, 11 December 2005.
Reports of assaults and intimidation by non-locals led about 5,000 people – mostly under the age of 26 – to gather at Cronulla, to “reclaim the beach”. Soon some of the crowd were hunting down and attacking anyone of Middle Eastern appearance. Reprisal attacks followed, and by nightfall there was a full-on riot.From a partnership between Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People and Fairfield’s Powerhouse Youth Theatre, This Territory emerges from an intensive, six-month collaboration with young people from a cross-section of Sydney suburbs. The dramatic, physical production draws on ancient myth, first hand accounts and the stories of the culturally diverse cast.

Writer: Noelle Janaczewska
Director: Becky Chapman
Venue: The Studio, Sydney Opera House
Performance Season: 3-11 March 2007
Bookings: www.sydneyoperahouse.com or call 61 2 9250 7777