ESCAPE HATCH

Westwide Circus, 2008

DIRECTOR: Ailsa Wild
DRAMATURGE: Anthony Crowley
SET DESIGNER: Tanja Beer
COSTUME DESIGNER:  Melanie Liertz
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Gina Gascoigne

Performed at Westside Circus,
Melbourne, Australia 2008

INFO:
The Westside Circus community show presented a story of humanity and art with 35 teenagers from dramatically different backgrounds. Inspired by the art of modern abstract painters, the mondrian-esque set features a large aluminium framed corflute wall with multiple suspended frames and becomes the backdrop to an art gallery inspired circus show.

AN UNEXPECTEDLY MIND
BOGGLING ADVENTURE

State Library of Queensland, 2007

WRITER: Scott Witt and Sean Dennehey
DIRECTOR: Scott Witt
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER: Tanja Beer
PUPPET DESIGNER & MAKER: Amanda Karo

INFO:
'An Unexpectedly Mind Boggling Adventure' was created by The Edge and Backbone Youth Arts as part of the Queensland State Library school holiday program. The show also featured an exhibition and puppet making stations that were presented in the public spaces around the Library. In order to see the show, the audience enters through the forest pathway to a clearing which is centred around a children’s bedroom and are seated on cushions to watch the show. Our central character Flynn meets Al, Poo (Wompoo bird), and other puppets throughout his journey into his own imagination and make-believe paradise.