Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer

Everything was normal on your flight over the ocean… until the plane went down and you crashed on an unknown island!

Now there are vampires, time machines and superpowers to deal with, and any decision could mean life or death. The hardest part? It’s the audience who decides!

This is choose-your-own-adventure theatre, and with your very own hand-held controller, you’ll be steering the play. But think carefully before you make a choice – or you might end up on the island… forever!
Come Out Festival presents a Windmill Theatre production in association with the Border Project.

Director: Sam Haren
Designer: Jonathon Oxlade
Composers: Cameron Goodall + David Heinrich
Lighting Designer: Mark Pennington
Controller Designers: Matthew + Ray Gardiner
Starring: David Heinrich, Jude Henshall + Alirio Zavarce

For more details visit www.windmill.org.au

Meet Laura - habitual fibber and high school geek. Then there's Catriona - the popular princess, upset because her jet-setting parents are going to miss her 13th birthday.

Seeing an opportunity to score popularity points, Laura convinces Catriona to lure Mummy and Daddy back from OS. But as soon as their diabolical plan is set in motion an unfortunate series of events begins to unfold in a way that neither of the girls could have ever imagined.

This is a high tech, wittiy and sharp-tongued satire on the politics of the playground.
Originally produced by Arena Theatre Company with the support of the Sydney Opera House.

Writer: Angela Betzien
Director: Rosemary Myers
Video + Set Designer: Chris More
Composer: Jethro Woodward
Set, Costume + Props Designer: Emily Barrie
Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre
Starring: Danielle Catanzariti

For more details visit www.windmill.org.au

Windmill Theatre and the Adelaide Festival Centre present a Belvoir and Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image Production.

Thomas is nine and he's writing a book. His father says all important books are about God. Even so, Thomas writes down all the interesting things he sees that other people seem to ignore: tropical fish in the canal, a deluge of frogs and the Son of God popping in for a chat. He also writes down his greatest determination: When I grow up, I'm going to be happy.

Feature the Bottombiter, the startling Miss Van Amersfoort and a beautiful girl with a leather leg, acclaimed author Guus Kuijer's magnificently humble store grabs your heart, challenges your mind and makes you laugh, no matter how old you are.

From the novel by Guus Kuijer
Adapted by Richard Tulloch
Director: Neil Armfield
Set and Costume Designer: Kim Carpenter
Composer: Iain Grandage
Lighting Designer: Nigel Levings
Choreographer: Julia Cotton
Sound Designer: Steve Francis
Assistant Director: Eamon Flack
Starring: Alison Bell, Iain Grandage, Deborah Kennedy, John Leary and Matthew Whittet

For more details visit www.windmill.org.au

Based on the picture book by Phil Cummings and Nina Rycroft, this play follows a hugely successful season in 2008, for the newest and littlest theatre lovers.

Shhh listen, what's that sound? A mouse creates a single ting with a bowl and spoon triggering a makeshift band. An explosion of rhythm and song springs to life as an ensemble of animals move out of the kitchen and on to the glittering stage, complete with magic cupboard, hatching baby chickens and a gigantic washing machine.

Specially crafted to provide our toddlers and pre-schoolers with intimate theatrical experiences, this musical humbug goes off with a ting-tong clickety bang!

Director: Rosemary Myers
Designer: Jonathon Oxlade
Composer: Quincy Grant
Starring: David Heinrich, Ezra Juanta + Alirio Zavarce

For more details visit Windmill Theatre

Writer and Director Scott Rankin. Composer Beth Sometimes. Cast includes Trevor Jamieson, Derek Lynch and Anne Golding, project advisors Pantjiti Mckenzie, Simon Tjiyangu and Dora (Amanyi) Haggie.

A new production by Windmill and Big hART in association with Adelaide Festival Centre's Australian Stories Program.

It is the 22nd century in central Australia. Everyday life is basic in this future world. The post climate change environment demands that skills for living return to the way they were for thousands of years before that fast-paced period of just 10 generations, which resulted in global warming and the near destruction of the planet.

Eva and Roam have fallen in love and they face a life and death predicament as they run from an unseen enemy, because of their wrong-skin marriage.

This moving and powerful story of survival in both English and Pitjanjatjara is interspersed with sand storytelling, choreography, video art, shadow play, weaving and a highly atmospheric musical score.

Nyuntu Ngali is a collaboration between Windmill and the renowned Big hART, which also presented Ngapartji Ngapartji- a sell-out success at the 2007 Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

For bookings call BASS on 131 246 or visit www.bass.net.au.

The power of steel. The soul of a scoop. The heart of a hero.

An ice–cream van comes alive as everything in it transforms in a wild and epic story.

Scoopy is an ice–cream scoop who can’t stand the cold or the brain freezes that come with his job. When his home is endangered, he is called by Mr Freezy on a quest to distant and dangerous lands. On his travels, Scoopy encounters a world of robo–chickens, milkshake speedway racers and Godzilla–like food processing machines.

With all the characters created out of real food, utensils and packaging, Mr Freezy blends incredible puppetry with an extraordinary set design and original music. Mr Freezy is a celebration of imaginative play and an exploration of bravery, loss and belonging.

Playing with food has never been so exciting!

'Anarchic, messy and highly intuitive, this is a fabulous children’s show. It’s brilliant, silly and often hilarious.' The Stage, UK about Men of Steel

Created by: Hamish Fletcher, Chris Kohn, Tamara Rewse and Sam Routledge
Director: Chris Kohn Performers: Phil McInnes, Tamara Rewse, Sam Routledge Composer: Kelly Ryall
Designer: Jonathon Oxlade Dramaturgy: Julianne O’Brien

October 27 10am & 12.30pm
October 28 10am & 12.30pm
October 29 12.30pm
October 30 10am & 6.30pm
October 31 10am, 12.30pm & 5pm

For information and bookings visit BASS www.bass.net.au or phone 13 12 46
(All ticket prices are inclusive of BASS booking fee).

Commissioned by Windmill and The Arts Centre Melbourne, Born in a Taxi’s

The Whale’s Tale

A free, outdoor family show in and around a giant whale!
Life for a whale is not all plain swimming. There may be lots of small creatures to eat and plenty of room in the sea but for a whale in modern times, life can be precarious.
Immerse yourself in The Whale's Tale as you watch from the shore, or submerge yourself in this underwater playground full of surprises and become a part of this large outdoor performance. Ever wondered what it's like to be swallowed whole?
It's time to put on your shrimp helmet, take a deep breath and dive inside the massive jaws of Manilayo the humpback whale. Become the hero of the story and live to tell the tale.
A great school holiday outing!

"Each performance will offer its own delicious moments and, considering Born in a Taxi's history, none will disappoint." Herald Sun

Created and performed by Born in a Taxi: Penny Baron, Carolyn Hanna, Nick Papas
Music and sound designer: Michael Havir
Whale design and construction: Bryony Anderson
Costume designer: David Anderson
Props: Annette Ringrose
Artwork: Jonathon Oxlade; Linehan Scott Design Photo: Tomek Sikora

NEWS ALERT!
Four Australian companies were invited as part of the international contingent to Showcase as part of the International Performing Arts Youth Conference in Pittsburgh in January. Windmill Theatre’s production of PLOP was huge hit and is looking at considerable touring to the US, Canada and possibly Europe in 2011 - watch this space!

International Performing Arts Youth (IPAY) showcase – Pittsburgh USA
Benedum Studio A, The Pittsburgh International Children's Theater (Pennsylvania, USA)

When two tiny rabbits get frightened by an apple falling from above, the anticipation of it happening again and again leads to an interactive and action-packed adventure.

Can our little fluffy heroes overcome their fear, and will they outwit the big, scary block-rocking bear?

Specially crafted to provide preschool audiences with intimate and non-threatening first theatrical experiences, this is a show full of invention and theatrical magic as the performers duck, dive and do their level best to stop the terrible plop!

Based on the picture book The Terrible Plop
by Ursula Dubosarsky, illustrated by Andrew Joyner

Director: Sam Haren
Composer/Musician: DJ TR!P
Designer: Geoff Cobham
Creative Consultant: Kath Fyffe
Starring: Nathan O’Keefe and Nadia Rossi
Suitable for ages 1-4
Show duration – 35 mins

Photo Credit: Nathan O’Keefe and Nadia Rossi in Windmill’s Plop!

Suitable for 1 – 5 years

Based on the much loved picture book character created by Ted Prior, Grug is brought to life in this magical stage production for young theatre lovers.

Grug began his life as the top of the Burrawong tree that fell to the ground. Resembling a small, striped haystack with feet and a nose, Grug is fascinated by the world around him and solves everyday problems creatively and without fuss.

When dancing instructions are too difficult to understand, he invents his own dance and calls it ‘The Grug’. When snails eat his cabbages, Grug plants more cabbages so there will be enough for both him and the snails.

Ted prior’s hugely popular character (with 52,000 Facebook fans!) is brought to life for this magical stage production for our very young theatre lovers.

Director: Sam Haren
Designer: Jonathon Oxlade
Composer: DJ TR!P
Starring: Jude Henshall, Nathan O’Keefe and Lucas Stibbard

It’s a world where all bets are off. Corruption, sleaze and violence pervade.

When a young boy is brutally attacked, one guy and his crew take the law into their own hands seeking retribution and a new world order deep in the depths of a dark forest.

Young, sexy and invincible, the group lives large. But violence comes at a cost and Robin has secrets. Cracks appear and the friends face off. As they fight to keep it together, the enemy closes in and their world starts to implode.

In the unique theatrical voice of Australia’s Matthew Whittet, Fugitive is an anarchic, hysterical, knife-edge ride with a direct line out of the psyche of a contemporary anti-hero.

By the director and designer team that created The Wizard of Oz, Fugitive considers just how far a group of people will go for their ideals and the quest for justice?

Champion of the underdog, a fleeing desperado, a modern-day man in tights.