Youth and Education Program

From Suzie Miller — celebrated Australian playwright behind Prima Facie and RBG: Of Many, One — comes the untold story of the AFLW's formation. In 2010, a report recommended a national women's league. Seven years of grit, passion, and fancy footwork later, it was born — a sensation the sports world could no longer ignore.

Barrack your heart out for this inspiring story of determination, legacy, and pride. Theatre written in mud, sweat, and belief.

Year Levels 9-12

Style/Form Contemporary Australian Theatre, Personal Narrative

Senior Units Drama – Unit 1, 2 and 3 Drama in Practice – Unit Option C and D English – Unit 3 and 4 Literature – Unit 3 and 4 Physical Education – Unit 2

Themes Gender, Representation, Identity, Resilience, Agency

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening, Auslan Interpreted Event, Audio Described Event

Please be advised Contains some coarse language and adult themes

Duration Approx 1hr 40mins (no interval)

A single mum, a teenage daughter, and a new life in a regional town where neither quite fits. It's always been just the two of them — against the world, dancing in supermarkets, getting the hell out after the ‘Very Bad Thing’. Now Mum is finding rebellion in the sweaty, radical world of roller derby, while Billie's anxieties are manifesting in unnerving ways.

Windmill Production Company's Mama Does Derby is a no-holds-barred riot of reinvention and reckoning. About falling down, getting back up, and befriending your demons.

Year Levels 10-12

Style/Form Immersive Theatre, Expressionistic/Non-Naturalistic Theatre, Site-specific, Multi-Artforms

Senior Units Drama – Unit 1, 2 and 3 Drama in Practice – Unit Option B, C and D Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Coming of Age, Family relationships, Self Discovery, Mental Wellbeing, Isolation and Belonging

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening, Audio Described Event, Auslan Interpreted Event, Live Captioning

Please be advised Production contains some strong language and references to domestic violence and mental health. Includes theatrical smoke, haze, lighting effects, live music and loud noise.

Duration 90mins (no interval)

Deep within the underworld, two skeleton friends dig tirelessly for fresh bones as their ancient forms deteriorate. When the Dodo miraculously sprouts feathers, chaos erupts and the order of the dead is shattered. Infused with puppetry, humour, and stunning visuals, this mesmerising musical odyssey follows their epic fight for survival, transformation, and true friendship.

Year Levels 5-12

Style/Form Puppetry, Theatre, Visual Theatre, Cinematic Theatre, Children’s Theatre

Curriculum Links Drama Years 5–6 AC v9 – AC9ADR6E01, AC9ADR6E02, AC9ADR6D01, AC9ADR6C01 Senior Drama – Unit 1,2,3,4 Drama in Practice – Unit Option B, C and D Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Friendship, Transformation, Survival.

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Auslan Interpreted Event, Audio Described Event

Please be advised First 9 minutes subject to lockout, latecomers will not be admitted until lockout complete. Contains use of haze and smoke machines, as well as strobe and sound pressure effects.

Duration 75mins

From the writer of The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera, comes this new adaptation of the epic tale of Tiri Mahana, a 185-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to present-day Aotearoa.

With award-winning actors Miriama McDowell (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) and Nī Dekkers-Reihana (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou), audiences are invited to a play for the whole whānau where Tiri wants us all to remember that the good things, the right things in life, are worth fighting for.

Year Levels 9-12

Style/Form Theatre, First Nations (Māori)

Senior Units Drama – Unit 1,2 and 3 Drama in Practice – Unit Option B, C and D Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Colonisation, Identity, Whakapapa, Resistance, Memory

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening

Please be advised Includes sexual content and descriptions of violence.

Duration 1hr 20mins (no interval)

A rip-roaring ride into the depths of the Chinese afterlife.

When two best friends spend a night holding vigil for their dead grandfathers, their conflicting attitudes grow, clashing over tradition and superstition. But the lords of the Underworld have their own thoughts, and they’re going to drag our heroes beyond the grave to resolve their differences.

Year Levels 11-12

Style/Form Australian Theatre, Personal Narrative, Non-linear

Senior Units Drama – Unit 1,2 and 3 Drama in Practice – Unit Option B, C and D Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Friendship, Cultural identity, Superstition vs Cultural beliefs.

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening, Audio Described Event

Please be advised Production contains adult themes, sexual references, coarse language. Includes haze, strobe and loud noise.

Duration 75mins

Hannah had it all planned — travel to Korea, visit her birth mother, spend a golden summer together. But her Umma is more interested in working day and night at a convenience store than connecting. In Umma's eyes, Hannah is a “Koreaboo” — a foreigner captivated by K-Pop, kimchi, and hanboks. Armed with only Google Translate and unrelenting optimism, Hannah must find her place in Umma's world before the sweltering summer ends.

Year Levels 10-12

Style/Form Theatre, Personal Narrative

Senior Units Drama – Unit 1,2 and 3 Drama in Practice – Unit Option B, C and D Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Belonging, Family, Inter-country adoption, Cultural Identity, Connection

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Auslan Interpreted Event, Audio Described Event

Please be advised Discussions of inter-country adoption, culturally contextual references to diet and body image. Theatrical haze, smoke and flashing lights.

Duration 80mins

Scorched Earth is part crime-drama, part psychological thriller — piercing into a dark but fundamental question of the Irish psyche. What right do we have to the land beneath our feet? What are we willing to do to keep it? Or take it. Inspired by John B. Keane's The Field, the work draws audiences into the stark world of an interrogation room, where a detective and suspect dredge through the ghosts of an unsolved murder long thought forgotten. Blurring the lines of dance and theatre, Luke Murphy — creator of the flawless multi-award-winning Volcano, a hit at Brisbane Festival 2024 — weaves story, striking visuals, and visceral movement into a tapestry through which five international performers sear a picture of wanting, striving, deserving, and resenting.

A poetic final chapter of reaching and failing leaves no doubt about the cost of success.

Year levels 9-12

Style/Form Contemporary Dance, Dance Theatre

Senior Units Dance – Unit 1,2,3 and 4 Dance in Practice – Unit Option B Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Land Ownership, Relationship with the Environment,

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening, Auslan Interpreted Event, Audio Described Event

Please be advised Contains use of Haze, Strobe Machines, Theatrical Smoke and Adult Themes.

Duration 80mins

What do you get when trees, ghosts and deer combine in a magical mix by one of Aotearoa's most ingenious dancers, storytellers and award-winning choreographers? You'll find yourself in the offbeat, playful world of Shel We by Tupua Tigafua. Off-beat, upbeat and heartwarming, Shel We has delighted audiences of all ages from New Zealand to Sweden.

Year Levels 9-12

Style/Form Contemporary Dance, Pacific Dance and Theatre, Narrative

Senior Units Drama – Unit 1, 2 and 3 Drama in Practice – Unit Option C and D Dance – Unit 3 and 4 Dance in Practice – Unit B

Themes Family, Love, Culture and Memory.

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening.

Duration 55mins (no interval)

Rooted in lived experience, Bleachers is a disability-led dance-theatre work by Sprung Ensemble — 10 d/Deaf and disabled artists from Bundjalung Country — exploring isolation, connection, and belonging through a striking production built around a custom bleacher set. More than a show, it's a conversation.

Year Levels 10-12

Style/Form Dance Theatre, Physical Theatre, Cinematic Theatre.

Senior Units Dance – Unit 1, 2, 3 and 4 Dance in Practice – Unit option B Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Isolation, Connection, Relationships, Belonging, Disability

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening, 75% Visual Content, Auslan Interpreted Event, Audio Described Event

Duration 50mins

Created by The Farm, No One Gets Out of Here Alive confronts mortality in a culture that prefers to look away — where velvet curtains drape coffins and the dead are painted to look living.

But this isn't just about the big D. It's also about the little d's: the death of dreams, of past selves, of quiet everyday endings. Weaving dance, voice, music and humour, this visceral, cathartic work creates a communal space to grieve — and to remember we are alive.

Year Levels 11-12

Style/Form Contemporary Dance, Dance Theatre

Senior Units Dance – Unit 1, 2, 3 and 4 Dance in Practice – Unit option B Art in Practice – Unit option A and D

Themes Death, Mortality, Ageing,

Accessibility Wheelchair Accessible, Assistive Listening, Audio Described Event.

Please be advised Production contains adult themes. Includes theatrical smoke, haze and nudity.

Duration 75mins