Due to popular demand, the 2009 Adelaide Fringe production ‘Party House’ is off to tour schools on the Fleurieu. You’re invited to experience the partying, the drinking and the excitement of this house party!!

Originally set in a Real House with the audience traveling from room to room of the party meeting the characters, the situations, the problems, SYTE brings to the Fleurieu Peninsula a new and improved production…

PARTY HOUSE…On Tour

This is going to be the biggest in school party ever!

Using Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre or ‘theatre of the oppressed’ seven young people and the director created the party scenes through exploration and improvisation around the issues facing the community (the young people in the cast). The audience will watch the party unfold, and will then be invited into the party the second time it is performed. Together, we work as a community to try to find alternative actions and strategies to deal with these problems in a safe but realistic environment.

The aim of forum is to discover ways of dealing with the situation as a group…. Because in the end, it is our problem as a community.

A collection of performance pieces from the SYTE workshop groups,
to showcase what each group has discovered over the semester.

Get ready for a SYTE for your eyes! Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble’s bi-annual showcase! Every semester we hold a night for our participants to get up on stage and show off what they’ve been doing for the past six months! From short films to Fairy Tales to everything wacky and exciting, this show is going to be a blast!

Come and support Yankalilla’s and Noarlunga’s budding talent at 6pm on Friday 25th June at the Yankalilla Youth Centre or on Saturday 26th June at the Port Noarlunga Arts Centre for only $10 or $5 concession and not only will you see a show, but SYTE’s design class will also have a free display in the Port Noarlunga Arts Centre art gallery! We will be presenting costume design sketches for scenes from Romeo and Juliet by participants aged 16-19. The display will be in the gallery from 22nd to 30th June.

We look forward to seeing you at a SYTE for your eyes, and don’t
forget to book ahead on 8384 67 44 or at syte@syte.org.au

Too much for your console, bigger than your TV and louder than your surround sound.

SYTE, in partnership with IMPACT is embarking on something very new and very exciting… a musical: Retaliation.

A large-scale musical production using the topical environment of a computer game, to focus on real world violence verses the inability to understand how conflict affects another person. Young people from all over the southern suburbs have been involved in all aspects of the production, including writing, acting and music.

Emerging writer Alex Vickery-Howe (Once Upon a Midnight 2008), the SYTE ensemble and participants from schools in the local area have collaboratively writen the script.

The young people had input into the narrative. Their stories and experiences have influenced the subject matter and the characters based on their own physicalisation. The SYTE membership have been exploring and understanding non-violence over the past two years through the IMPACT partnership and will bring this knowledge and experience with them to these sessions. Throughout the creative development, the creative crew (writer, director, composer, digital artist and mentee) have collated and discussed the material generated from the Retaliation Ensemble with the IMPACT agency steering committee.

This incredible opportunity sees the young people at SYTE develop skills in a new art form that includes singing, choreography and character development. The Retaliation ensemble will always have the opportunity to feed input into the production, and thus have ownership over the final script and musical composition. They will be viewed as the experts in the subject matter, as they are part of the community that we, the partnerships, are trying to reach.

Bookings are now open for term 4 workshops!

The following workshops are held at the Port Noarlunga Arts Centre:

KIDS PLAY: THEATRE & FUN!
firstSYTE 4-7yrs $90
4.30-6.00pm Thursday
Trish Herreen

FirstSYTE is all about guiding your child’s first footsteps along their creative pathway. There will be a focus on creative play, imagination, character, working with others, confidence and much more. The children will use their imaginations and ideas to create a performance for the end of semester showcase.

STORIES FROM ANOTHER WORLD
'outtaSYTE' 8-10yrs $90
4.30-6.00pm Thursday
Sharon Scott

Have you heard the story about the fountain of youth or the crab and the monkey? Have you ever wondered about the myths and legends from Europe or Asia? We'll look at traditional stories and performance styles from other cultures looking at the whole world of theatre. Then, using these new skills, we will create a performance for the end of semester showcase.

MELODRAMATIC ME
'xSYTE' 11-13yrs $90
6.00-7.30 Thursday
Mieka Owens-Phillips

xSYTE will be studying melodrama in semester 2, and we don’t just mean soap operas! You’ll learn to exaggerate plot and character in order to evoke emotions in your audience and you’ll get a chance to test it all out at the end of year performance. This is a must have building block for the aspiring actor!

THE REAL SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS
'inSYTE' & 'adultSYTE' 14+yrs $100
5.30-7.30pm Tuesday
Russell Slater

Participants will take one of Shakespeare’s wonderfully complex characters and learn how to bring them to life on the stage. This performance-based workshop will give you the tools to understand and develop the Bard’s characters. The semester will end with an evening performance of famous Shakespearean scenes to showcase each character.

BOYS
14-26yrs Males $100
5.00-7.00pm Thursday
Tyson Wendell

SYTE in partnership with choreographer/director Tyson are entering dangerous territory together… exploring male identity. What is it that makes us men? How do we make the choices we make to become who we are? I am me, and you are you but we are both men. Join us as we delve into the dark and mysterious sea of our own psyche. This will be a creative development of a physical theatre performance.

BIG DAY OUT
11-14yrs $90
6.00-7.30pm Thursday
Sharon Scott

In this workshop we'll be working on the process of page to stage with a script by British playwright Willy Russell. Learning how to interpret and perform a script is a major part of being an actor, so here is your chance to make words from a page come to life on stage with a performance of the show at the end of semester.

TV HEADS
14+ $100
7.00-9.00 Monday
Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart & Toni Main

TV heads is a specialized workshop aimed at creating our next SYTE troupe! Professional mixed-media artist Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart will be working with the participants to create a troupe of roving characters fit to perform at community and corporate events. Applications for the troupe are available from the SYTE office.

The following workshops are held at the Yankalilla Youth Centre, Main South Road, Yankalilla:

MAKE SOME NOISE
'firstSYTE' 6-11yrs $90
4.30-6.00pm Wednesday
Karen Holmes

This semester come and create some weird and wonderful new worlds as we will play with body percussion, sound scapes and controlled movement techniques. Slap on your silly voice, slide on over doing a funny walk and join us as we have fun making some noise.

GET MY TXT!
'inSYTE' 12-16yrs $100
6.00-8.00pm Wednesday
Karen Holmes

Step inside the mind of a stranger as we explore well-known scripts and bring life to the printed word and the characters who dwell within them. If you enjoy escaping into another world and exploring its possibilities, this workshop is for you!