Cirrus@Austlit

'A discovery makes AMERIE an instant pariah at Hartley High, and causes a mysterious and very public rift with her ride-or-die HARPER. With her new friends - outsiders QUINNI and DARREN - AMERIE must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.'

Source: Netflix.

'Matthew Whittet’s We Are The Mutable externalises the internal worlds of four teenagers through the magical phenomenon of waking up changed, transformed or mutated. It questions how we deal with change and being vulnerable, what happens when you are faced with your fears, and how we find empathy.'  (Publication summary)

'Lukas isn’t in a good place. He hasn’t been for some time.

'His friends Claude, Song and Dylan decide they can’t sit by and watch anymore. Tenderly and with great patience, they start to tell each other stories. Of the moments they all met. Of the times they were complete idiots and the happiness they’ve shared together. They tell these stories because they know their friend Lukas also needs to tell his. His life depends on it. A gentle soul with a love for ancient night skies, Lukas has fallen into a deep and complicated grief. One that he can’t pull himself out of. He can feel history repeating and black holes opening up. But this isn’t who he is. In fact, he doesn’t even recognise the person he’s become.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'This is a story about three teenagers. Matt, Luke and Jonathon. They’re meeting up before the school dance. They’re on a mission. But they’re losers.'

Source: Screen Australia funding approvals.

'It's not easy being young and smart.  

'Alex is a twelve-year-old with a keen eye and a wit to match.  She's been watching everyone at school for the last few days like an eagle... or maybe a hawk, and something's not right.  Everyone is acting weird.  They're all starting to say the same things, wear the same clothes, do bad dance routines in the corridors for no reason at all and meet up after school to drink decaf-mocha-latte-soy-frappucinos.   The writing's on the wall.  She knows what's happening.  They're all turning into zombies.

'In fact, it's the Night of the Zombies - that fateful occurrence that happens once every 200 years.  Alex and her buddies know what to do, they'll have to fight with all their might the zombies of tonight.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'You’re in for a treat.

'Matthew Whittet is the true original mind of Australian theatre – actor, writer, muse, inventor of marvels, scribe of human beauty and lover of oddity. Seventeen is the play he’s been getting ready to write for a long time. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, and it has been specially, like really specially, written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors. To be precise:

'Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden, Barry Otto. The lot of them.

'These venerables play a group of teenagers (!) drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing (!!) their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood.

'Funny, immature, wise and a little bit but quite beautifully sad, Seventeen is about the size of life.' (Production summary)

Girl Asleep is a film adaptation of the acclaimed 2014 play of the same name. It follows shy teenager Greta Driscoll as life takes unexpected turns in the lead up to her fifteenth birthday.

'Big Bad Wolf is a charming family production that offers playful re-imagining of a classic fairytale figure.

'From acclaimed Australian children’s theatre company Windmill Theatre, this production has earned rave reviews from critics, parents and most importantly children. This table-turning play reveals Big Bad Wolf is in fact the most misunderstood character in fairytale history.

'With plenty of audience interaction, young theatre goers will be captivated by this inventive, high quality production, that re-introduces the Big Bad Wolf as a vegetarian, poetry-writing, people person.' (Production summary)

'It’s a fantasy, manga, hip-hop, slacker Australia, sometime in the near future. The leaders have disappeared and it’s every man for himself. In the fog of his urban chaos, a young man returns. A guy with strange power and a backpack of destruction. His name is Robin. In a bold retelling of the classic folklore Robin Hood, Fugitive is a hysterical, anarchic knife-edge ride that is contemporary Australian theatre at its best.

'Windmill Theatre’s Fugitive, School Dance and Girl Asleep form a unique trilogy of rites-of-passage stories by Helpmann Award-nominated writer/director team Matthew Whittet and Rosemary Myers. The adrenaline of the alpha male, the pain of the loser, and the dark inner world of the teenage girl underscore these three distinct works each delivering an outrageous, hilarious, painful, violent and ultimately celebratory experience.' (Source: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2014/theatre/fugitive )

'Greta Driscoll is frozen in the spotlight of her fifteenth birthday party. As the events of the night unfold, going from bad to worse, a stranger arrives sending Greta into a parallel place; a latent world that’s weirdly erotic, ultra-violent and thoroughly ludicrous – it is there she will find herself. This is a girls’ own adventure where heroism and gender are turned on their head in a unique explosion of the sisterhood.

'Windmill Theatre’s Fugitive, School Dance and Girl Asleep form a unique trilogy of rites-of-passage stories by Helpmann Award-nominated writer/director team Matthew Whittet and Rosemary Myers. The adrenaline of the alpha male, the pain of the loser, and the dark inner world of the teenage girl underscore these three distinct works each delivering an outrageous, hilarious, painful, violent and ultimately celebratory experience.' (Source: http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2014/theatre/girl_asleep )

'This Cinderella is not about princes and princesses. It’s about a single woman in her early 40s trying to go on a date, and a single guy who has an unreasonable fear of not being heard over loud music in bars. There may not be any ugly sisters, but there’s the occasional mysterious animal. There’s midnight. There’s a shoe. There’s dancing. And there’s beautiful transformation.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A delicate creature, part fable, part mystery, 'Silver' tells the strange and beautiful tale of a young girl's search for stillness lost.'

Source: Belvoir St Theatre website, http://www.belvoir.com.au/
Sighted: 13/10/2009