Halfway or more, through what a lot of teachers call the most productive term and it's the end of Autumn tomorrow - it's notable the year is speeding past.
Term 3 and 4 will be upon us soon, so start booking your events now. Just search our extensive show lists.
On the 2025 VCE Theatre Studies list, Love and Information by Caryl Churchill is a fast moving kaleidoscope, where more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.
Interesting both for content and form, students and teachers will be glad this one made the list.
Make Term 3 & 4 really sing, with fabulous music workshops from experienced teachers/facilitators who know the music curriculum in detail and easily engage all students.
'Welcome to Music' by Susie Splitter-Davies and Phil Splitter, adapted to K - Yr 6.
Active Minds & Dancing Feet, from Brisbane based Creative Dance Industries, is an incursion tailored to students from P to Yr 9.
Reconciliation Week commemorates the 1967 referendum and the High Court Mabo decision,respectively. On 27 May 1967, 90.77 per cent of Australians voted 'Yes' to change the constitution, the highest 'Yes' vote ever recorded in a Federal Referendum.
Whoops, Merchant of Venice Symposium, presented by Sport For Jove, is on at the Seymour Centre on June 12!
Just time enough to get organised.
Hurry to get to these fantastic events:
Sydney & Wagga Wagga - The Macdonald College's Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in June and early July
Perth - Blue - Studio Underground - finishes 8 June
The following finish on Friday 23 May:
Sydney - Yes Yes Yes - Seymour Centre
So many places depend on volunteers giving their time to help their communities. As cost of living rises, fewer people are able to volunteer. Those who still do should be celebrated.
Thank you all the volunteers!
And thank you to teachers for doing more than is required
Melbourne Playback Theatre have added more incursions for Yrs 7-12.
If you book Play-back Your World before June 30, you get a discount!
All their shows here
Melbourne Playback Theatre have created an incursion for secondary students and also for teachers, titled Healthy Relationships
Go here for details.
There are difficult issues in schools. We offer several shows around student well being - such as Meerkat's Mr Huff, live and online for primaries in Qld, NSW, Vic,ACT and SA
Many hows focusing on anti-bullying and resilience for primary and secondary students
And others with a cyber safety angle.
The Garden of Broken Things, live show, is touring Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, SA and Tas in Term 3. For students K -6. Or if it suits you better, the online show is also available.
Term 2 is a great term to bring live performance in or go out to see one for Senior Secondary students, especially for English and Drama students.
Excursions:
Sydney - Seymour Centre has several offerings
Melbourne - Theatre Works has 3 suitable shows this term.
Complete Works Theatre Company, based in Melbourne, is committed to presenting high quality, classic works and workshops for secondary students. Some of their productions are also available online.
See all their productions, here