Drama Workshops

Looking for an opportunity to creatively express

yourself in a fun and relaxed environment? 

Do you want to increase your performance skills, develope your confidence

and make new friends along the way? 

If your answer is yes to any of the above they you have to enrol now

for Tantrum's term four workshops!

Term 4 runs from Monday 11th October to Sat 11th December.

For more information about any of our drama workshops click here.

Auditions for 2039

Tantrum Theatre is holding auditions for its forthcoming production of Carl Caulfield’s 2039, a world premiere commissioned by the company as part of the Civic’s 2010 Inspirations subscription series.

The cast is comprised of an even mix of male and female roles, with ages ranging from 16-30.

Auditions for this new work will be held on Sunday 28th August (4pm-9pm) and Monday 30th August (2pm-6pm), with callbacks to be held on Sunday 5th September (6pm-9pm). Auditions will be held upstairs at Civic Arcade (403 Hunter St – please wait outside glass doors until called) on both days.

For the audition, you will be required to prepare a short contemporary monologue that you feel best showcases your skills. After presenting this, you will undertake a brief cold read of an excerpt from the script.

If you are successful in being cast, you will be required to pay a performance fee to Tantrum Theatre ($100) as well as an annual membership fee ($25) if you are not already a financial member.

The performance season is 18-27 November 2010 at The Playhouse, with rehearsals part-time from September onwards. 

To book an audition time, please email Tantrum’s Artistic Director, Brendan O’Connell at ad@tantrumtheatre.org.au. Further information on the play is below and also available at www.tantrumtheatre.org.au/2039.html.

“Tantrum Theatre and acclaimed Newcastle playwright Carl Caulfield come together for the first time with an exciting new collaboration to close out the Civic's 2010 Inspirations Playhouse season.

2039 is an edgy, satiric, black comedy that looks to the future to examine the present. Directed by Brendan O'Connell, this dark, dystopian political thriller will use eye-catching multimedia techniques, including the integration of film and movement. This new play by one of Newcastle's most popular dramatists will explore ideas about religion, freedom, uses of technology, surveillance, terrorism, celebrity, and notions of reality.”

The Sydney Fringe and Tantrum Theatre present...

Peepshow is a tantalising, bold installation performance that explores our fascination with what is behind closed doors. At times provocative and titillating, but most often banal and mundane, the inner workings of us all are on full display in Peepshow.

Tantrum Theatre’s Peepshow premiered in March 2009 at Civic Arcade. This premiere production was a site-responsive work that directly engaged with the architecture and history of both the real and imagined spaces within the building. Peepshow was such a great success that it has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival!

Audience members are invited to come down to the festival to immerse themselves in Peepshow and experience all that is on offer.

Auditions for Short + Sweet

Short + Sweet Newcastle is focused on community development and mentorship. The festival aims to provide new and upcoming writers, directors and actors with the opportunity to participate in an internationally-renowned festival.

Short + Sweet was conceived by Mark Cleary, Newtown Theatre, Sydney with the aim of encouraging and supporting local theatre talent by providing opportunities and mentorship for emerging writers, production of their works, marketing and audience development.

In just nine years, Short + Sweet has grown to be the world’s biggest festival of its kind, with more than 1500 international entries received annually. Previous seasons have featured more than 100 plays drawing sell-out audiences in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore.

Short + Sweet Newcastle has just announced the ten finalists and are now looking to audition actors to help bring the scripts to the stage.   

The season will be staged in the Playhouse from 10th– 13th November 2010.

Auditions will be held on Saturday 11th September at THE LOFT YOUTH ARTS & CULTURAL CENTRE, 1/7A Wolfe St, Newcastle Mall between 11am and 5pm.

Please click here for an audtion kit