2010 WATDI Recipients Announced

The next round of the Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative will support...

- Side Pony Productions' Guess Who (Zoe Pepper; Adriane Daff; Brendan Ewing; Nathan Nisbet; Rebecca Baumann; David Rosenberg, advisor from UK's Shunt Collective; and Charlie Todd, advisor from USA based Improv Everywhere). Blurring the audience/performer relationship using the characters from a well known board game, Side Pony moves into new terrain with the use of aural devices and masks to assist in this experimental site specific work.

- Jambird's Kings and Queens (Chrissie Parrot; Patrick Doherty; Reg Cribb; Jonathan Mustard; Margaret Cameron; Kate Hall; George Shevtsov; Claudia Alessi; Rhiannon Newton; Russell Leonard; and Tom Penny). Principal artists collaborate to explore script, sound, visual and movement material to bring images by artist Patrick Doherty to life as a work of physical theatre.

- Pinstripe Circus's The Lost Boys (Joey Roigruk; Simone Obrien; Nathan Kell; Dawn Pascoe; Adam O'Connor; Kim Upton; Ross Vegas; Ella Hetherington; Steve Buckles; Leon Krassenstein; David Franzke; Claudia Alessi; and Sally Richardson). This development will focus on the creation of a circus theatre work set in an urban streetscape environment, embracing the conventions of theatre on an epic scale while incorporating highly skilled circus acts within a character driven narrative.

WATDI will also contribute $5K towards the development of an Intellectual Property framework which will benefit Jambird and Pinstripe's developments but also provide a template for other collaboratively devised work in the future, an identified need in the WA sector.

For more info visit WATDI.org.au