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VOLUME 1 – (1979)
EDITOR – GEOFFREY BROWN
NO. 1 (JULY)
Youth Affairs Council; Youth Theatre Toronto; TV’s Glitter Babies; Children’s Theatre in Canada; Young People‘s Theatre in Toronto; AYPAA Projects.
NO. 2 (SEPT-OCT)
ASSITEJ 6th International Congress; Professionalism in Theatre for Young Audiences; CYCLE (Community; Youth & Children’s Leisure Enterprises) Productions; AYPAA Projects; Edition Supplement: Inroads and the UN; ASSITEJ; AYPAA to South Australia?
NO. 3 (NOV-DEC)
AYPAA Projects & Lowdown Policy Statement; "Canada has its own Kids’ Train for IYC"; Edition Supplement: AYPAA Contribution to International Year of the Child 1979; John and Sue Fox from the Welfare State Company (UK); The Inroads Project.
VOLUME 2 – (1980)
EDITOR – GEOFFREY BROWN
NO. 2 JAN)
Salamanca Script Resource Centre; Opera and Music Theatre in Australia; Regional funding in Australia; 1979 Education Activities; The Fox Tour - A Postscript; Children’s Theatre in the USSR; Special:Theatre in Education: NSW TIE; Magpie (SA); Tertiary TIE.
NO. 3 (MARCH)
International Children’s Theatre; Queensland Youth Orchestra; Magpie (SA); Opera and Music Theatre in Australia; Drama in the ACT; Careers Week at the Drama Resource Centre; Australian College of Entertainers; Arts/Media Employees and Superannuation; Carclew history and background; National Youth Council.
Reviews: Marionette; Shopfront; Toe Truck; Nimrod
NO. 4 (MAY)
Drama Studies; Sydney;Community Arts Officer; 1980 NADIE Conference Report; XII Commonwealth Games; Keilor Heights High School.
Reviews: Marionette; West; St. Martins; Jigsaw
NO. 5 (JULY)
AYPAA Hong Kong visit; 4th Annual International Directors’ Symposium; 1980 Community Arts Conference; 1980 Drama Camp; Organising for Change in Local Government; US Alliance for Arts in Education; Nimrod Children’s Theatre Seminar; UK International Festival of Youth Orchestra and Performing Arts.
Reviews: Bouverie St; Early Childhood Drama Project; Chimera; Hole in the Wall; Theatreground; UDS-UWA; Tasmanian Theatre Co.
NO. 6 (DECEMBER)
World Theatre Conference 1981; Towards a ‘Living’ Youth Theatre;
Reviews: Magpie
VOLUME 3 – (1981)
EDITOR – GEOFFREY BROWN
NO. 1 (FEBRUARY)
20th Jugoslav Festival of The Child; We Need Our Rituals (extracts from a speech by Mr BPF Smith to a Conference of Advisory teachers in NZ); We’re On (Andrew Bleby looks at a Youth Arts Festival for artsworkers in Melbourne); Partners in participation (an address by Dr Peter Botsman to the AGM of the Arts Council of Aust.); The Arts in Remote Areas; The Aboriginal Cultural Foundation; Youth Theatre vacation Workshop (a project of the Assos. of Community Theatre).
NO. 2 (APRIL)
Come Out 81; Youth Music Festivals; 2nd Australian Drama Festival; Magpie TIE Touring; Adelaide Festival Centre & Young People; Newham Festival of TIE.
Review: Toe Truck
NO. 3 (JUNE)
1979-80 Australia Council Report; Adult Companies involved with Come Out 81; Children’s Theatre in the USSR; Children’s Festival - Festival of Perth 1980; AYPAA 1980 Annual Report; ASSITEJ Holland; Community Arts in the UK; AYPAA (WA) Xmas holiday project.
Reviews: Toe Truck; Acting Co.
NO. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITORS – ANDREW BLEBY AND SUE AVERAY
Victorian State Opera and Australian Youth Ballet; Creative Leisure Movement; Political Theatre 1855 Style; Coming to Come Out; Salamanca Theatre; State Opera youth company; Bread & Circuses Community Theatre; Groote Eylandt dance.
Reviews: Handspan; Kooka Puppet
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
Adelaide Festival 82; International Puppetry Festival 83; Actors’ Award 81; Rivercraft 81; Coarse Acting; Carclew Youth Performing Arts Centre; Salamanca Script Resource Centre; Australian Children’s Television Foundation; Energy Connection; 7th World ASSITEJ Conference and conference papers; Closing of London’s National Youth Theatre.
Reviews: Canberra Girls’ Grammar; CYT; Wesley and Penrhos College; Methodist Ladies’ College; Hole in the Wall
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
Future Playwrights; VCA; John Curtin Senior High; Little Patch; Yugoslav Festival of the Child.
Review: Toe Truck
VOLUME 4 – (1982)
No. 1 (MARCH)
EDITOR – ANDREW BLEBY
Carclew Opening; Melbourne 2nd Children’s Theatre Festival; 5th National Young Playwright’s Conference; Adelaide Festival; Death of AYPAA; Arts Council Programming; Asian Music Camp; St Martins; Homosexuality in Youth Theatre.
Reviews: CYT; Children’s Activities Time Society; Hole in the Wall
No. 2 (MAY)
EDITOR – ROGER CHAPMAN
St Martins Youth Arts Centre Opening; Role of Youth Theatre in contemporary theatre; Victorian Drama Resource Centre; Theatre in school; Rainbow Youth Theatre; Victorian Youth Theatre Association; Fringe Education Program; Adelaide Festival.
Reviews: Toe Truck; Mixed Co; Magpie
No. 3 (JULY)
EDITOR – HELEN RICKARDS
NSW Arts Policies; Jigsaw; National Playwrights’ Conference
Freewheels; Marionette Theatre of Australia; Musica Viva;
AYPT; Magpie.
Reviews: Jigsaw; Toe Truck; Tasmanian Dance Co.; Bouverie St; St Martins; Spare Parts
NO. 4 (SEPTEMBER)
EDITOR – HELEN RICKARDS
From Russia with Peace - an appeal to the Theatre people of the World; Tasmania; Salamana Arts Festival; On Theatre-In-Education; Youth Theatre - Boardwalk (Perth’s first Youth Theatre Festival); Caring for kids in Cuba (Andrew Bleby reports on the thriving theatre for young people); Why Isn’t Live Theatre More Popular?
Reviews: Jigsaw Theatre; Magpie Theatre in Education; Tasmanian Dance Company; Arena Theatre; Woolly Jumpers TIE Team; Spare Parts Puppet Arts Theatre; Down Under the Thumb
No. 5 (NOVEMBER)
EDITOR – HELEN RICKARDS
Australia Council Funding; Theatre Board Grants; NADIE; Australian International Puppet Festival; Warana and Commonwealth Festival; Interview: Tom McVeigh.
Reviews: CYT; WATIE; Salamanca
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – HELEN RICKARDS
Moomba; Bouverie St; VYTA; Sidetrack; Drama Resource Centre; "We’re On" Festival.
Reviews: CYT; NSW ToD; Bread and Circuses; Community Theatre;
La Boite; Energy Connection; Magpie; Theatre of Fantasy; Little Patch; WAAPA
VOLUME 5 – (1983)
No. 1 (MARCH)
EDITOR – ANDREW BLEBY
Youth Performing Arts in WA; Come Out 83; KITE; Australian International Puppet Festival; Interviews: Sen. Susan Ryan; Ron Davies.
Reviews: Festival of Sydney; Sydney Dance Co.; Big Kids; WA Youth Theatre; Children’s Festival of Perth
No. 2 (MAY)
EDITOR – ANDREW BLEBY
London’s Theatre Centre; Australian Arts Centres; Come Out; Brisbane’s Street Arts; Interviews: Jon Hawkes.
Reviews: Victorian Arts Centre; Bouverie St; Sidetrack; Toe Truck; Terrapin; Rae Gibson; Chimera
Acting School Troupe; Little Patch; Acting Co.; CYT
No. 3 (JULY)
EDITOR – HELEN RICKARDS
Little Patch; TIE Directors Conference and mini-Festival; Come Out 83; Tie and Children’s TV; Interview: Sen. Kathy Martin.
Reviews: CYT; Pipi Storm; Toe Truck; Brisbane Arts; Acting Co.; Paperbag Puppet; Lindy Batterham; Handspan; Gilly Farelly; Spare Parts
No. 4 (SEPTEMBER)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Federal Arts Budgets; Youth Arts in the NT; Hon. Barry Cohen speech; Interview: Michael FitzGerald.
Reviews: Freewheels; Marionette; Sidetrack; Acting Co.; Essaie; "Mixed Company"; WA Education Dept.; Spare Parts; CYT
No. 5 (OCTOBER/NOVEMBER)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
David Holman; Sydney Youth Theatre scene; Boyohboy banned; 1984 Theatre Board Funding; Adelaide Youth Theatre scene Teenage Roadshow; Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
Reviews: National Young Playwrights’ Conference Report; Jigsaw; CYT; ATYP; Gilly Farelly; Arena; New Patch; John Curtin High; La Boite
VOLUME 6 – (1984)
No. 1 (JANUARY)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Berlin’s Grips Theatre; Theatre for Young People; Sidetrack; NSW Children’s and Youth Theatre Conference; Arts Council changes; CYT’s Gail Kelly; Australia Council.
Reviews: Jigsaw; Sidetrack; NSW TOD; Toe Truck; Gilly Farelly; Magpie; New Patch; Salamanca; John Curtin Senior High; Swy
No. 2 (MARCH/APRIL)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Festival Fringe; Nanjing Project; Three Legends of Kra; Round Earth Theatre Co.; TIE in England.
Reviews: Freewheels; Deck Chair; Brisbane Arts Youth Co; U2S Theatre; St Martins + Playbox
No. 3 (MAY/JUNE)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Festival events; TIE Directors’ Conference; English TIE.
Reviews: Street Arts; Spare Parts; Toe Truck; Oz People; Magpie; Swy
No. 4 (JULY/AUGUST)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
World Theatre Symposium; TIE.
Reviews: CYT; CYT Troupe; Jigsaw; Toe Truck; Magpie; Skylark; Freewheels; NSW TOD
No's. 5 & 6 (NOVEMBER)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Editorial; Theatre Board Allocations; Lyn Tuit; Eighth National Young Playwrights Weekend; Young People's Theatre Workers Weekend; 8th ASSITEJ Congress; Barbara Manning; Mary Travers on T.I.E.
Reviews: Kingston & Woodbridge High Schools; Rockhampton Junior Little Theatre; T.A.U.; Canberra Youth Theatre; Unley Youth Theatre; Sidetrack Theatre; Various Puppetry Reviews
VOLUME 7 – (1985)
NO. 1(FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Editorial; Letters; $20 million Bicentenery Arts program appointment; Theatre for Children; Community Theatre; Getting the Dance to kids; St Martins Theatre of Yth - The End of Phase One; Arts Administration
Reviews: Toe Truck Theatre; Adelaide Festival Centre Education Program; The Acting Company; Freewheels TIE; Swy Theatre Company; U25 Theatre; Magpie Theatre; CATS.
No. 2 (MAY)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE Sydney Youth Festival; Toe Truck; Flying Fruit Flies; Interview: Bill Brown;
Reviews: Jigsaw; St Martins; CYT; CIYT; Toe Truck
No. 3 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Community Theatre; John McGrath (7:84); Next Wave (new festival); National T.I.E Conference Report; Funding news; Launch of Port Youth; Dance; Martha Hill; Interplay '85; Interview: Green Thumb Theatre; Come Out '85.
Reviews: Magpie Theatre; FM Live Theatre Company; 2 'Til 5 Theatre
No. 4 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
New Children’s Theatre; Next Wave; Interplay 85; Interview: Peter Oysten;
Reviews: Next Wave; Handspan; CYT Troupe; Bouverie St; St Martins; Jigsaw
No. 5 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Feats Unlimited; Breakout Festival; Theatresportsmania, Ariette Taylor; Interview: John Sanders.
Reviews: Spare Parts; Patch; Woolly Jumpers; FM Live; Terrapin; CIYT; Salamanca; Next Wave
VOLUME 8 – (1986)
No. 1 (MARCH)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Sydney Festival; Sidetrack Theatre; Perth Festival; Theatre of the Deaf; Magpie’s new director; Panto’s annual resurrection; Interview: Paul Saliba;
Reviews: TOD; ATYP; Ariette Taylor; Australian Youth Ballet; Playbox
No. 2 (MAY)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Shopfront; African Youth Theatre; National TIE Agenda; Adelaide Festival;
Reviews: Handspan; Magpie; ADT; Awayi Puppets; Whistling in the Theatre; ToD
No. 3 (JULY)
EDITOR – IAN CHANCE
Youth Music Festival; TIE in New Zealand; WA Academy; Fremantle Arts Institute; Marionette Theatre; Gilly Farelly; 2 Dance Co.; Industrial Relations.
Reviews: Acting Out; TAU; Jigsaw; CYT; Sidetrack; Toe Truck; Belvoir St; Salamanca
No. 4 (SEPTEMBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Censorship in Queensland; Richard Tulloch; The Odeon; ITI News; Coca Cola Youth Music Festival; Exploitation of children in youth theatre; Interviews:
Paul Weingott; Cheryl Stock; David Young.
Reviews: Flinders Uni Drama Department; FM Live; Deck Chair; Freewheels TIE; Bouverie St; Dance North; No Grant Theatre Co.; Spare Parts; Brown’s Lane; Salamanca
No. 5 (NOVEMBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
The MacLeay Report; TIE in Queensland; Writing for pre-schoolers; Next Wave and Moomba Festivals; Interview: Leigh Warren.
Reviews: VCA; Woolly Jumpers; Arena; ETC Co.; Neobody; Toe Truck; First Stage; CYT; Patch; CPA; Magpie; Adelaide Dance Co.
VOLUME 9 – (1987)
No. 1 (JANUARY)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Chris Mangin; Bouverie St; Australia Council; CIYT; Interviews: Don Mamouney; Jon Hawkes; Dallas Lewis.
Reviews: Skylark; Fortune National Capital Theatre; 2 Dance Plus; WA Ballet Co.; Suitcase Circus; CIYT; TIE-DIE NT; Royal Burdon; Royal Qld. Theatre Co.; Theatreful of Fantasy; NIDA; Shopfront; Handspan
No. 2 (MARCH)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Young People’s Theatre in Australia; Choreography today; Skylark; Interview: Susan Ryan.
Reviews: London Theatre Workshop; ATYP; Self Raising Theatre; Michael Clark and Co.; Spare Parts; Le Theatre de la Marmaille; Allynn Gooen; Aaron Zaitman Prod.; Kite; Magpie
No. 3 (MAY)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
9th ASSITEJ World Conference; Come Out 87; Theatre in Youth Culture; Playwriting for Multicultural Youth Audiences.
Reviews: Dong Rang; Honolulu; Arena; Magpie; Riverland; Multicultural; Urrbrae; Patch; Unley; Troupe; Rainbow; Four’s Co.; Marion High; Dance Focus; Taking Flight
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
4th National Community Theatre Conference; Vancouver Children’s Festival; Canada Council; Interviews: Marjorie MacLean; Ernie Fladell.
Reviews: Living Arts Workshop; CYT; Patch; Salamanca; TN!2; Royal Queensland Theatre Co.; Broken Hill One Act Play Festival; Shopfront; Four’s Co.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Future of Australian Theatre; Spare Parts; Arts in Canada.
Reviews: La Boite; Dance North; La Luna; The Church Theatre; Handspan; Woolly Jumpers; Sidetrack; Marionette; Magpie; Unley Youth; Patch; Salamanca; Spare Parts; CYT
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Arts in SA; Carclew; Arts in Canada; Interviews: John Bannon; Chris Johnson.
Reviews: RITEJ Theatres du Monde Festival; Arena; FM Live; St Martins; Junction Drama Centre Co.; CIYT; Toe Truck; KITE; Athena; NADIE Conference; Jigsaw
VOLUME 10 – (1988)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER Arts Council of Australia; The Bicentennial; PACT; Arts in Canada; Interview: Steve Grieve.
Reviews: Pact; TasDance; Patch; Helen Beinke; Club Foote; FEIPP; Junction; Tropic Line; La Boite; Deckchair
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Queensland’s Youth Arts Festivals; Regional and Remote Areas; Adelaide Festival; Festival Fringe; Arts in Canada.
Reviews: St Martins; Brown’s Mart; Terrapin; David Poulton; TN!2; Circus Oz; Theatre Repere de Quebec; Vast; Magpie; Youth Theatre Co.; Jigsaw
No. 3 (JUNE/JULY)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Next Wave; Derailing the Gravy Train; Murray River Performing Group; Riverland Youth Theatre; NIDA; Toe Truck; Oz Puppet Festival; YAPA Conference; Arts in Canada.
Reviews: Next Wave Festival; Victorian Arts Council; Arena; 2 ‘til 5; Spare Parts; Oz Puppet Festival; Magpie; Centre for Drama Studies; Expressions Dance; RQTC Roadwork Team
No. 4 (AUGUST/SEPTEMBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Zen and the Art of Bookkeeping; NSW Ministry for the Arts; Interviews: Hon. Peter Collins; Richard Tulloch; Volker Lending.
Reviews: Jumbuck; Carouselle; Australian String Quartet; Helen Beinke Dance; ADT; TOD; Six Years Old; Pact; One Night Stand; La Boite; Whistling in the Theatre; Salamanca
No. 5 (OCTOBER/NOVEMBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Youth Theatre in Australia; Come Out 89; Criticising the Critics; Spoleto; Interviews: Angela Chaplin; David Sulkin.
Reviews: CIYT; Next Wave; Deck Chair; Arena; FM Live; Ballarat Women’s; ATYP; 2 til 5; Toe Truck; Flying Fruit Fly; Port Youth Theatre Workshop
VOLUME 11 – (1989)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Non-verbal Theatre; Making of Paddy Troy; Red Shed; Interviews: Andrea Hall; Adam Salzer.
Reviews: Barnstorm; Gardner Puppet Theatre; Danceworks; Adelaide Festival Centre Trust; Deckchair; WA Ballet Co.; Spare Parts; Shopfront; Salamanca; CYT; La Boite
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Festival of Perth; Handspan; Saturday Night in Darwin; Interview: Leigh Warren.
Reviews: Toe Truck; Warringah; Theatre of Image; Darwin Theatre Co.; Elcho Island; Gulpul Language Dancers; CIYT; La Boite; Rock’n’Roll Circus; Woolly Jumpers; Mummers; Junction; SWY; Chung Ying
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Come Out 89; Aboriginal Arts Program; 3rd Allwrite; Literature Program; Victorian Arts Program; Community Come Out; Over to Youth Program; YAPA Conference.
Reviews: AFCT; AFCT/Patch; New Dreaming; Lyndal Jones/Danceworks; Russell Cheek; Unley; Jigsaw; Magpie; Kite; Cirkidz; Ludus Dance; Multicultural Youth Theatre; ADT/Come Out 89; Blackburn high; Multicultural Artworkers.
N0. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
National Youth and the Arts Development Project; Stage as Space International Theatre Design Conference; Circus Skills Training in Australia.
Reviews: Acting Out; ATYP; Handspan; Victorian State Opera Schools Co.; Woolly Jumpers; Red Shed; TN!2; Extensions; Brolgas; CYT; Salamanca.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Arts in Victoria; Magpie; Deaf Way Conference; Anne Levy and Jennifer Cashmore.
Reviews: Handspan; Barnstorm; FM Live; Sidetrack; 2 til 5; Contact; Skylark; CIYT; Arts Council of Australia NT; Patch; Regional Cultural Council of SA; ASO; Carouselle; Hong Kong International Arts Carnival.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – JO SHEARER
Theatre in the 90s; 1990 Adelaide Festival Fringe; FM Live; Pamela van Amstel and Graham Pitts; Interview: Aubrey Mellor.
Reviews: Spare Parts; Coco; Gaudeamus; Mainstreet; Magpie; Pact; Freewheels; Toe Truck; La Byte; Access Arts; St Martins; Arena; Tasmanian Youth Circus; Gambit.
VOLUME 12 – (1990)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – ANNA DOLLARD
National Arts Debate; CIYT; Actors’ Equity; Adelaide Festival Youth Program; Interviews: Andrew Bleby; Gillian Rubenstein.
Reviews: CIYT; Barnstorm; TOD; John Curtin; WA Priority Schools Program; SA Youth Music Theatre; Red Shed; Dance North; Toadshow; Salamanca; Terrapin; Canberra Multicultural Youth Theatre.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – DEBORAH HEITHERSAY
Newcastle; Views on Review; Copyright; Adelaide Fringe Youth Education Program.
Reviews: Bran Nue Dae; Voice Vox; Magpie; Patch; FEIPP; Toe Truck; Salamanca; Mummers; Polyglot; Performers Independent theatre; Brolgas; Jigsaw
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – DEBORAH HEITHERSAY
Next Wave; Circus Summit; Tasmanian Funding Cuts; YAPA Conference; Rainforest Project; WA Youth Arts.
Reviews: New Moon; TN!2; Backstares; Jumbuck; Arena; Midnight Spankings; East/West; Tasmanian Institute of Technology; Sidetrack; Warringah; Acting Out; Spare Parts; Steps.
No 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – DEBORAH HEITHERSAY
10th ASSITEJ World Conference; Europe after the Wall; Leeds Young People’s Theatre Festival; Gambit.
Reviews: Pact; Storyteller’s; Jigsaw; Patch; Jest in Time; Tropic Line; St Martins; Araluen; Terrapin; Acting Out; Deckchair.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – DEBORAH HEITHERSAY
Nepabunna; Gay issues in Theatre; Voice Art; NT Dance; Interview: Mem Fox;
Reviews: ATYP; Toe Truck; CYT; Stagecoach; Unley Youth Theatre; Adelaide Performing Theatre; Back to Back; Christine Hutchinson; MUD Festival; Salamanca; Logan; Albert & Street
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – DEBORAH HEITHERSAY
Blue Paper; Come Out 91; IDEA - International Association of Drama in Education; Cirkidz; Katoomba Conference.
Reviews: Shopfront; Freewheels; Skylark; Carouselle; Magpie; Terrapin; Playback; Woolly Jumpers; CIYT; La Byte; Contact; Renewing Arts Co.; WATC; Coco.
VOLUME 13 – (1991)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – DEBORAH HEITHERSAY
Casting techniques; Maintain Your Stage; Reaching Black; Dhaka Conference.
Reviews: Zeal/Hunter Valley; Pact; Backstares; Westenders; Theatre Now; RMIT Union; St Martins; Maggie Miles Chris Brown Jenny Vuletic Bronwyn Calcutt and Ensemble; Brolgas; Contact; Spare Parts; Council and People of Kwinana.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
International Workshop Festival; Rock’n’Roll Circus; SA Arts Training Enquiry; Arena; Triple J.
Reviews: TOD; Toe Truck; SAYT Co.; Port Youth Theatre; Salamanca; Broccoli Education; Arena; Storm Festival; Jigsaw; Piccolo; Snarling Beasties; Spare Parts.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Come Out 91; Spilt Milk; YAPA 91; Jeannie Baker.
Reviews: Tjapukai; Magpie; Patch; Theatre Erumu; Come Out on tour; Handspan; CYT; VAC; CIYT; Tasdance; Brolgas; John Curtin Senior High.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Theatresports; Theatre on campuses; Queensland Arts Council; Ideology in Youth Theatre.
Reviews: ATYP; 2 til 5; Death Defying; Parting Co.; Jumbuck; Barnstorm; Woolly Jumpers; Kite; Tropic Line; Skylark; Acting Out; Loud Thud; Gambit; Theatre Now.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Youth Arts Parliament House Rally; International Juggling Festival; Funding and fundraising; Queensland Youth Arts Festival; Ideas; Fact and Futures: Youth and the Arts.
Reviews: Warringah; Sidetrack; Red Shed; Mainstreet; Patch; Dance Focus; St Martins; Rock’n’Roll Circus; Contact; Bauhina; Jigsaw; Multicultural Youth; Coco; Steps; Terrapin
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Publicity; 1991 Prague Quadrennial; TIE; 15th National; Conference of the National Association for drama in Education; Women in contemporary music.
Reviews: REM; Pact; 2 til 5; Unley; Drama for Kids; Magpie; Gardner Puppet Theatre; Murray River Performance Group; Trellis of Lizards; Reflex; Skylark; Spare Parts; Acting Out; Salamanca; CIYT; Araluen
VOLUME 14 – (1992)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Company Directions 1992; ASSITEJ future prospects; Queensland funding changes; Motivation of Youth Theatre companies; National Youth Theatre Policy. Reviews: Freewheels; Toe Truck; Circus Maximus; Junction; Doppio
Teatro; Peter Gray; David Poulton’s; Princeless; Raucous Children’s; Lester and Smart; Rhinoceros Players; CYT; Cats; Mummers.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Hon. John Beswick MHA; Funerals and Circuses; YAPA 92 Audiences; World Theatre 92; 2nd Australian Music Conference.
Reviews: Sidetrack; Belvoir St; Before You Were Blonde; Backstares; Magpie; AFC; Handspan; No Mates; Theatre de la Marmaille; Small Pond Clowns; Theatre is Moving; Narrabundah College; Black Swan; Acting Out; Salamanca.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
Next Wave Festival; Australian Arts Industry Councils; YAPA; Art of Theatre Criticism; Gay Abandon; Jenny Davidson; Literature; Around the Edge; Women's Plays.
Review: Roundabout; 2 til 5; Powerhouse; Unley Youth Theatre; Goose Look; Cirkidz; Next Wave Festival; Back to Back; Brolgas; Splinters; Skylark; Interplay; Mandaring Community Arts; Theatre Now.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY
A Tale of Two Festivals; Katarina Ivak; Theatre for Young People Funding Policy; Graham Gavin & Michael Leunig; Jane Westbrook; International News; Literature; Playscripts.
Review: Byron Shire Youth Theatre; patch Theatre Centre; Carouselle; Theatre Centre; The Woolly Jumpers; Araluen Youth Theatre; Corrugated Iron; Out of the Box Festival (various); Lillian Community Theatre Project; Canberra Youth Theatre; Stage One Festival (various); Umbrella Theatre; Gambit Theatre.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – LEIGH ELLIOT
Zane Trow; High Tech Art & Youth Arts; Mark Thompson Come Out Designer; Theatre for Young People Directors' Meeting; Youth Theatre & Secondary Drama; Safe Dance Practice; Lajamanu Kurra Karna Yani (background) Zap Theatre Company; Literature; Playscripts.
Review: Jigsaw; Bennelong Education Program; Pact Theatre; ATYP; Red Shed; Vitalstatistix; Theatre of Image; Melbourne Uni Student Union; Swinburne College of TAFE Performing Arts Department; La Byte Youth Theatre; Extensions; Reflex Theatre; James Cook University Performing Arts; Coco Youth Thetre; Tasdance.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – RACHEL HEALY AND DARRELYN GUNZBURG
Youth Orchestras; Murri meets Maori; The Property of the Clan; Daynan Brazil (RQTC- Courier Mail George Landen Dann Playwriting Award; Female Parts; Literature Playscripts.
Review: Death Defying Theatre; Rem Theatre; Zeal Theatre; Scotch College; Unley Youth Theatre; Footscray Community Arts Centre; Vic State Opera; Barnstorm; Acting Out; Spare Parts; Qld Uni of Technology; Kite; Waiting Women; Rosny College; Terrapin.
VOLUME 15 – (1993)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – DARRELYN GUNZBURG
GST; Access to Excellence; Flying Fruitfly Circus; Arts on a Tightrope; Morris Gleitzman; Radio Daze; Highs & Lows; David Carlin at Arena; Ausdance National Biennial Conference; Nick Hughes at Backstares; Literature; Playscripts.
Review: Magpie Theatre; Corrugated Iron; Patch Theatre; Real Fantasy Theatre; ATYP; Wentworhville and Holroyd Youth Services; Back to back Theatre; IRAA Theatre; Doppio Teatro; Sydney Theatre Company; One Toe; The Intergalactic Players; Rocky's Youth Theatre.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – DARRELYN GUNZBURG
ASSITEJ Congress Special; Colonial Conclusions Youth Theate in Britain; Choreography at Green Mill; Dances with Genevieve; Julie-Anne Long; Criticising Criticism; Wesley Enoch; Antoinette Blaxland ATYP; Literature; Playscripts.
Review: Canberra Youth Theatre; Boulevard Theatre; Kite Preschool Theatre; Byron Shire Youth Theatre; Masks & Mirrors; Riverina Theatre; Theatre South; Melbourne Maskworks; Bizircus; Somebody's Daughter Theatre; Thrice YA Theatre Company; Trestle Theatre Company; Patch Theatre Centre.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – DARRELYN GUNZBURG
Youth Ballet; Youth Dance; Restless Dance Company; Views on Reviews; Anne Fine; Second Australian International Workshop Festival; international Popular Theatre Conference; ASSITEJ; Literature; Playscripts
Reviews: The Arafura Sports Festival Opening; Contact Youth Theatre; Tango 160 with Jigsaw; Salamanca; Flying Fruitfly's/One Extra Company; Coco Youth Theatre; The Broken Limb Youth Theatre. Come Out '93: Freewheels; Jumbuck Theatre; Canberra Youth Theatre/Unley Youth Theatre; Rem Theatre; Cirkidz; Dance Magic; 2 'Til 5; Magpie Theatre; Narrabundah College; Restless Dance Company; Brolgas Youth Theatre; Poet Youth/Magpie Theatre.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – DARRELYN GUNZBURG
Indigenous People in Performance; Youth Ballet; Youth Dance; Danceworks; In the Company of Angels; Literature; Playscripts.
Review: Queensland Theatre Company; Midnite Youth Theatre Company; St Martins Centre for Youth Arts; Unbeatable; Anthill Theatre; 2 Dance Plus; Puppets Androids and Icons; Arena Theatre; ABC Radio Drama; No Mates Drama in Action; Danceworks; Dance North; Carouselle Theatre Company; The Capricornia Players; St Martins Theatre; Woolly Jumpers.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – DARRELYN GUNZBURG
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Education Program; South east a Next Wave Project in Melbourne; 1993; Colin Offord & Restless Dance Company; Trash Metal; The Young Drums; Rainbow Soup; Stephen Leek; Youth Music Australia; Musica Viva in Schools; Tessa Duder; Challenges of Brecht; Wendy Dent; In Memorium; John Maxwell; Literature; Playscripts; Music Reviews: Rock around the Clock; Songlines; Book Review: Theatresports Downunder.
Review: Murray River Performing Group; harlequin Puppets meet Community Aid Abroad; The WA Youth Theatre Umbrella; Lillydale Youth Performing Arts Company; Helix Physical Theatre; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Riverland Youth Theatre Company; Barnstorm Theatre Company; Acting Out; Rivcol Drama.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – DARRELYN GUNZBURG
Puppetry; Darzbor Divided (Teresa Crea & Wojciech Pisarek); Lorrie Gardner; 6th Triennial DACI Conference; Kite Theatre; Polyglot; Dorinda Hafner; Dramaturgs; Mary McMenamin; Fools Theatre Company; Emma Freeman; 17th Annual NADIE Conference; YATAC Conference.
Review: Contact Youth Theatre Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Program; Araluen; Newcastle Regional Museum; Polyglot Puppet Theatre Arena/Melbourne Theatre Company; Unley Youth Theatre; Shopfront Theatre; Willoughby Youth Theatre; Aboriginal Youth Theatre; The Woolly Jumpers; Canberra Youth Theatre Company; Kite Theatre.
VOLUME 16 – (1994)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Puppetry; Prestige and Professionalism; Shopfront's tour to China; MAYA Thailand's only youth theatre company; Dance North to Hanoi; Barking Gecko's Ivory Circle; YEP the Fringe for kids; Neil Gladwin; The Language of Theatre; Moorli in Wagga Wagga John Saunders; Performance; Puppetry and Darzbor Divided; YATAC Conference; Next Wave Festival; CD Reviews.
Reviews: McDonald College of the Performing Arts; Theatre North; The Women's Circus; Tasdance; James Cook Uni Drama Students; Skylark Theatre Company; Boulevard Theatre; Brown's Mart Dance Troupe; Jigsaw Theatre; Canberra Youth Theatre; Mainstreet Theatre.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Kym Carpenter; Surrealism and Simplicity; Lou Westbury; Gaelle Mellis; Cliff Dolliver; Greg Clarke; Tim Newth; Okinawa Festival; Gary Crew; Book Reviews; Sam Oshidi.
Reviews: Compagnie Phillipe Genty; Cybercircus; Salamanca Theatre; Patch Theatre; Bay Street Productions; Narrabundah College Theatre; Death Defying Theatre; Restless Dance Company; Mornington Island Dancers; Pat Mitchell; Murphy's Puppets; Stride.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Mary Morris; The Art of Silence; Annie Stainer; Triptych; Lindsay Vickery; Fran Kelly; Australasian Performing Rights Association; YATAC 1994; overview; DACI; Interplay '94; Out of the Box; 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference.
Reviews: Centre Stage Theatre; Members of St Martins; The Wooly Jumpers; Magpie Theatre; Shopfront Theatre for Young People; Red Shed; Coco Youth Theatre; Terrapin Puppet Theatre; WA Academy of Performing Arts.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Corrugated Iron World Environment Day; Tasdance in Smithton; Queensland Arts Council Schools Touring Program; Joey Kennedy in Oodnadatta; Coco Youth Theatre; Out of the Box; Edinburgh & Vancouver Children's Festivals; Colin McNoughton; Panic Stations at the Port; International Drama/Theatre and "Education Association (IDEA) Conference.
Reviews: Jigsaw Theatre Company; Theatre Guild; Unley Youth Theatre; Arena Theatre; St Martins Vic Centre for Youth Arts; Queensland performing Arts Trust with Handspan Theatre; Barking Gecko; 2 Dance Plus; Murray River Performing Group; Salamanca Theatre; Carouselle Theatre.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
SA's Youth Theatre Companies; Censorship; Support and Sensitivity; Rosemary Myers; NSW Youth Arts and Skills Festival (YASF); 6th Dance and the Child International Conference (DACI); Wendy Dent; Paul Jennings and Jane Tanner; 18th NADIE Conference; 4th International Festival of Young Playwrights; Youth Theatre in Japan; 3rd International Women Playwrights Conference.
Reviews: CZN; Polyglot Puppet Theatre; The Capricornia Players; Melbourne University Student Union Guild Dance Theatre; Gambit Theatre Company; ATYP; Safe Chamber; McDonald College of the Performing Arts; Kite; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Cirkidz; Reg Bolton; Coco Youth Theatre; Flying Fruitfly Circus; Creative Nation; REM Theatre; Terrapin ; Salamanca and Arts Funding; MAYA & Kim Hanna; Annie Dalton.
Reviews: Peter Gray Artiste Extraordinaire; Salibury High School; Canberra Youth Theatre; Back To Back and Circus Oz; Cirkidz; James Cook University; Bright Star Productions; Unley Youth Theatre.
VOLUME 17 – (1995)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Come Out '95; Powerful Puppets; Post Cards from Pakistan; ISTA Ozfest (Rosemary Luke); Australian Music Industry Directory; Melbourne Children's Arts Festival; Peta Murray; Epitaph - Greg Temple.
Reviews: The Vic Arts Centre with Nexus Arts; Death Defying Theatre; Jumbuck Theatre; 2 ‘til 5 Youth Theatre; Queensland Performing Arts Trust; Rip & Tear Theatre; Shopfront Theatre for Young People; Queensland State Theatre Company; Yirra Yaakin Youth Theatre; Coco Youth Theatre/Denmark Arts Council/ Plantagenet Players Kids Company.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Assessment & Excellence - Funding in the Arts; Tony Lee; Wired - National Youth Arts Festival; Wesley Enoch; Techno Anarchy; Pat & Paul Mitchell at the International Puppet Festival; 2nd World Congress of Drama/Theatre and Education - background; Joanne Petersen - Creative Services at MCA; Reading Matters; Qld Arts Council's 9th Annual Artists-in-Education Forum.
Reviews: Hartwell Players; Perth Theatre Company; Bizircus; Pact Theatre; Genco Theatre Company; Patch Theatre Centre with AFCT; Northern Rivers Performing Arts; Carouselle Theatre; Magpie Theatre & The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Ungariks Riksteatern.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Danielle Cooper; Taming TV; Sheela Langeberg; Careering Towards Rock; Australian Script Centre; 2nd World Congress of Drama/Theatre & Education
Skylark Theatre; Come Out Theatre Critics Symposium; Pablo Percusso; Berlie Doherty.
Reviews: Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Salamanca Theatre; Barking Gecko; Gale Lajoye; Teatromusica; Yirra Yarkin; Wayjo YTC & Steps Dance Co.; Swinburne Uni; 1st Site.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
2n World Congress if Drama/Theatre & Education; Australian Contemporary Music; Level Crossing-Australian People's Theatre; Creative Communication - puppetry; Ran Dan Club on Christmas Island; Triple Bill - Baden -Wurttembergische; Interplay Europe & Theatre Treffen der Jugend 95; Brackets & Jam; YEP at The Adelaide Fringe; One World Theatre - US Symposium in Seattle; Isobell Carmody; Vale - Irene Mitchell MBE.
Reviews: The Alexander Theatre; Arena Theatre; International School of Lae; The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild; REM Theatre; Melbourne University Student Union; Theatre South; Stompin Dance Company; 2 Dance Plus; In Context: Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Innovation in the Arts.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Cash & Commitment - Youth Arts Funding in WA; Livid Festival; Mainstreaming Young People's Theatre; Michael Lindsey-Simpson; Issues based Youth Theatre- Hold!; Thrill; Kiss; Kill; State of Theatre for Young
People in Victoria; NADIE Thetre Industry Survey Project; Learning to Grow is TIE dead; Living Legends; Margaret Clark & Ted Ottley.
Reviews: Polyglot Puppet Theatre; Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre; Restless Dance Company; Musikteatergrup Pen Ragnarock; Dramawest Theatre; Murray River Performing Group with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus; Before You Were Blonde; Steps Youth dance Company with 2 Dance Plus; Queensland Theatre Company.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Environmentally Recycled Theatre; The Moot Group; 10th International Festival of Student Theatre; China Children's Art Theatre; Making Contact with Grunt; Funding Bodies Comment on Theatre for Young People in Australia;; What Inspires You - empowerment and development; John Marsden; Summersault; YEP.
Reviews: Coco Youth Theatre; Vietnamese Youth Theatre and Y3P; Mainstreet Thetre; Extensions; Salamanca; Yirra Yaakin Youth Theatre; The Art-Ed Winterarts Program of Vic Arts Centre; XYLOSAX with Qld Performing Arts Trust; Magpie Theatre; Polyglot Thetre; David Pulton's Theatre of Puppets;
VOLUME 18 – (1996)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
1995 Sydney Young Playwrights Weekend; Port Youth theatre Workshop; Winterarts Program (Vic); One Extra Company; Sheela Langeberg; Farewell to Dahl; The Maze - Background; Jane Pirani; Gabe Universe - installation & performance artist; Brian Caswell; Book reviews; Reviews: 2 Dance Plus; 4th Wall; CPA Graduating Dance Students; Jam Theatre; Splinters; Unley Youth Theatre; Sydney Puppet Theatre.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
1996 Next Wave Youth Arts Festival; Yak on the YEP; Charles Slucki winner of the 1995 Herald sun and Commonwealth Bank Victorian Teacher of the Year Award; Australia Council: Future of Funding; WIRED; International Children's Festival in Perth; Claiming Youth Culture; Interplay International; Writer at Work - Peter McFarlane.
Reviews: Duck & Co with One Toe; Ricochet Theatre; Canberra Youth Theatre; Barking Gecko; Phillipe Genty/AFCT; PACT Theatre; Boots and all Dance Collective; Drum Drum and Sanguma; Magpie and State Theatre.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – LEIGH MANGIN
Arena Theatre; Listen Up! Writing for Radio Drama; Impro and Group Devising Part 1; From Hughes to Hanoi; NIDA Open Program; Australian Youth Orchestra 1996 World Tour; Rock n Roll Eisteddfod; Second Statewide Cross Arts Victoria Conference; Lesley Howarth.
Reviews: Co-Opera; Sheela Langeberg; The Young Vic Company; Canberra Dance Theatre; Brand X Theatre; Image Aigue; 2 til 5 Theatre; Narrabundah Theatre Company; Flying Fruitfly Circus; Kite Theatre.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – LEIGH MANGIN
Improvisation (Improcorp article); Theatresports; Bangarra Dance; Nigel Jamieson interview - Take Over Festival; Playback Theatre; Next Wave Festival; Out of the Box Festival; Artbreak Theatre - Mike Leigh etc; A Philosophy for Improvising and Group Devising (Pt. 2).
Reviews: Stompin’ Youth Dance Co.; Company Skylark; Salamanca Theatre Company; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Coco Youth Theatre.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – LEIGH MANGIN
City Moon; Marilyn Capper interview; Canada: Three Childrens’ festivals; Murray River Performing Group; PACT Youth Theatre; Sponsorship; Australian Theatre of the Deaf; Co*Opera; Christobel Mattingley interview. Reviews: Unley Youth Theatre; Salamanca Theatre Company; WAPA; Jigsaw Theatre; PACT Youth Theatre; Sydney Theatre Company; Barking Gecko; Pt Youth Workshop.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Freewheels; Scottish Children’s Festival; 15 Years of a Day with State Theatre; Youth arts in Bendigo; Odeon Theatre; Bell Shakespeare; Sonya Hartnett interview; The Register of Peers - Australia Council; Story by Hamish Macintyre.
Reviews: Backbone Youth Arts; Level Crossing; Magpie Theatre; Playbox; Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre; Patch Theatre Company; REM Theatre; 2 Dance Plus; Theatre Praxis.
VOLUME 19 – (1997)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Awesome Festival; Awesome reviews; Street Arts; 1996 ASSITEJ Conference; 1st Site; Take Over Festival; PACT Youth Theatre; Accolade; Jackie French interview; Letter from the Minister. Reviews: Carouselle Theatre; Copeland College; Death Defying Theatre; Zeal Theatre; Canberra Youth Theatre; Edith Cowan University; Brink Productions; Court Theatre (NZ).
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
RMIT; Fried; The Lab; Outback Theatre; Melbourne Moomba International Children’s Festival; Sydney Young Playwright’s weekend; D’Arts; Perth Festival 1997; Eco Man and Dr Earth; Gillian Rubinstein interview.
Reviews: QPAT & QUT; Riverland Youth Theatre; Dream Puppets; Deckchair Theatre; Australian Theatre of the Deaf; Cracka Theatre Troupe; Outlet Dance; Arena Theatre Company.
No. 3 (JUNE) - 1st A4 format!
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Roundabout Theatre; Bradfield College; Annamaria Beni; Take Over; Backbone; Australian Youth Dance Festival (Darwin); Jacqueline Wilson interview.
Reviews: Looking Glass Theatre & Canberra Youth Theatre; Melbourne Uni Student Union Theatre Dept; Yirra Yaakin; Dynamo Theatre; Arena Theatre and Back to Back Theatre; Canberra Youth Theatre; Barking Gecko; Polyglot Theatre; QLD Theatre Company; Flying Bookworm Theatre.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
The Playhouse (India); Theatre of Image; Four Little Girls; Fourth German Meeting for Children’s and Youth Theatre; Cracka Theatre; VRAP9; Salamanca Theatre Company; Stage X.
Reviews: Street Arts; 2 Dance Plus (now Buzz Dance); Salamanca Theatre Company; Theatre South; Cirkidz; Extensions; The Modd Show; Roundabout Theatre.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
The Clapping Oyster Company; Graft ‘n’ Arts; Sounding Out; Saturday Music School; Windows; Interplay; Playhunters; Polyglot History.
Reviews: Cracka Theatre Troupe; St Martins; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; La Luna; Mainstreet Theatre; Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Kite Theatre.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Arts Funding - It Takes 2; Kool Skools; Tracks Dance and Corrugated Iron Theatre; LOUD update; St Martins; Young Performers of the Year Awards; REM Theatre; New Erecktions - 1997 fringe program.
Reviews: Canberra Independent Artists and Ugly Duckling; Croation National Theatre Company; QPAT and QUT; Powerhouse Youth Theatre; Company Skylark; Freewheels; Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre; Tic Toc Theatre; Paige Gordon & Performance Group; WAPA; The West Side Circus; Salamanca Youth Theatre.
VOLUME 20 – (1998)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY - called JANUARY!)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Awesome Festival; Funding; LOUD; ATYP; Dare: the National CCD Conference; Munich Puppet Festival; Phil Cummings interview; Mummers Theatre.
Reviews: Cleanskin Theatre; Urban Myth; Urban Theatre Projects; RMIT Union; Theatre Alfresco; the Surf ‘n’ Theatre Company; Yirra Yaakin.
No. 2 (APRIL)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Emerging Artists; Claire McCarthy interview; Drum Drum; Nescafe Big Break winner; Andrew Robinson; mentors - An emerging fashion; the Pad Boys; Adelaide Fringe Festival; LOUD; Letter; Joining the Chorus; Soul Vision Program.
Reviews: School Holiday Program; Hothouse Theatre; Carclew Youth Arts Centre; Greg Lissaman; Salamanca Theatre Company; Shopfront Theatre; Barking Gecko.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Funding Report; Festival of Perth; Out of the Box; Music Education in Victoria; RMIT Union Arts; Carclew Youth Arts Centre/Patch Theatre - Hyper-Active; Youth Arts in QLD; PACT Theatre - Zing!; the North QLD Festival of One-Act Plays; Heartspace.
Reviews: Mathew Aberline productions; Restless Dance Company; Ricochet Theatre; St Martins; WAPA; ACT 1; Victorian Arts Centre; SYTE.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Backbone; A comparative critique of performing arts school touring programs; Elbow Theatre; Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Hothouse join forces; Theatre SA; Melbourne Fringe and Emerging Artists; Denmark Festival; Defining Youth Dance Practice.
Reviews: St Martins; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Odd Productions; Zen Zen Zo; Monkey Baa Productions; Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre; Freewheels TIE; Urban Myth & Riverland Youth; Victorian ARTED.
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Seadragons in Arnhem Land; Sandy McKendrick & Ulli Keck tour Arnhem Land; The Third Place; Contact Inc with Aboriginal & Vietnamese communities for Brisbane Festival; In the Box Seat; an overview of the Out of the Box Festival; Monkey in the Islands; Self Raising Theatre tour for QLD Arts Council; Respect your Culture; Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre; Whose Idea Was This?; IDEA ‘98 in Kenya; The Soundhouse: The Victorian Arts Centre’s fifth performing arts venue.
Reviews: Union Theatre (In Context); Yirra Yaakin; Elbow Theatre; Polyglot Puppet Theatre; Griffith Uni; Barking Gecko; Shopfront Theatre; Salamanca Theatre; Out of the Box; Powerhouse Yth Theatre; Splash Theatre; Ludwig-Maxillillians Uni Theatre (Germany).
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
TYP - More than a School Excursion; Apra; Barking Gecko - From Little Things Big Things Grow; Patch Theatre - Interview with Ken Evans; Arena Theatre; Tasmanian Youth Theatre Scene - Triumphant Tassie; The German Experience; Cirkidz; The Commonwealth Regional Arts Fund - the story so far; Yarruudanginya - Creating their own story.
Reviews: Bizircus; Fourth Wall; All and Sundry; Patch Theatre; Jigsaw Theatre; Self-Raising Theatre; Deckchair Theatre; Stopera & Culturally Innovative Arts; Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble & CPA.
VOLUME 21 – (1999)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY - focus on puppetry)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Knee High Puppet Theatre; Skylark Theatre; Come Out 99 preview; Michael Lewis and puppets; Awesome Festival round-up; Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Puppetry in Melbourne; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Theatre of Image; NZ Youth Theatre.
Reviews: Brink (QLD); Canberra Youth Theatre; Urban Theatre Projects; WA Academy of Performing Arts; St. Martins Youth Arts Centre; The Company and Canberra Youth Theatre; Pact Youth Theatre.
No. 2 (APRIL - focus on hybrid arts)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Hybrid & New Media Arts; Interview with Anna Messariti: Director St. Martins Youth Theatre; Dance in 3D; Catalyst:Queensland Youth Theatre; Backbone Youth Theatre; The Australian Youth Dance Festival: Ausdance; Come Out West: Port Youth Theatre Workshop; Take 3- The National Academy of Music; Book reviews.
Reviews: Northern Sydney Area Health Service (In Context); Mainstreet Theatre; Stopera; Voom.5 Productions; David & I Productions; Restless Dance Company; The Flying Fruit Fly Circus; Patch Theatre; Lindsey Pollak; Ricochet Theatre Company.
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – BELINDA MACQUEEN
Polyglot Turns 21; Perth Festival 1999; Stage X; Under, Over and Around the Big Top (National Circus Festival); Mudfest; Dance- an Australian perspective; Synapse - The SA Dance Collective; Screaming Cow Youth Arts Festival; The Fifth German Festival for Children and Young People; Sparring Partners - Arterialinc.
Reviews: Canberra Youth Theatre; Brink Productions; Uni of Ballarat; Corrugated Iron Youth Arts; Cirkidz; Deckchair Theatre.
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
A Positive Voice (Yirra Yaakin); Whatever Happened to those Youth Arts Conferences?; Arts and Education - Interview with Helen Bock, Education Officer AFCT; Artstart - Youth Arts and Skills Festival 1999; The First Steps become a Quantum Leap (Steps Youth Dance Company); Exposing the Myths of Puberty Blues - Urban Myth; You’ve Gotta Have... ; Kangaroo Steaks to Cape Town; Shining Bright in the Midnight Sun (13th World ASSITEJ Congress in Tromso); M 20 99 - week Twenty in Munich! (Puppetry Festival in Munich); States of Kinship (Doppio Parallelo)
Reviews: Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Riverland Youth Theatre; Roo Theatre Company; Catalyst; Salamanca Theatre; Medusa Productions; Urban Theatre Projects; Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Rem’s Frozen Girl; Keep the Arts Beating in schools; Awesome Preview; Securing the Future for Young Performing Artists (Tony Mack looks at the Nugent Report); World Interplay 99; Not Only in Principle, but in Practice (Michael FitzGerald reflects on his time as World President of ASSITEJ); Sydney Performing Arts Challenge; Something from Nothing; Take 3-Take2 (National Academy); E=Merging Theatre Artists; Artex 99; Youth week 99
Reviews: PACT Youth Theatre; Kite Theatre; Doppio-Parallelo; Powerhouse Youth Theatre & City Moon Youth Theatre; Actors’ Company; Steps Youth Dance Company; Corrugated Iron Youth Arts; Stage X and QUT.
No. 6 (DECEMBER)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Grandma’s Shoes (Theatre of Image); The YPAA National Conference; Playbox review winner; Judging the Picture by its Frame (Youth & the Arts Framework); Speedway ballet Tour (SEA); keynote Address by Judth McLean (pt 1 – YPAA Conference); Riverland Youth Theatre; Extending Regional Youth Dance; D Faces, The Courthouse Project Inc; Emerging Artists (Newcastle and Illawarra); The Children’s and Young People’s Theatre Centre Germany.
Reviews: Terrapin Theatre; High Street Yth Health Service; Heliograph Productions; Canberra Yth Theatre; WAAPA; Polyglot Puppet Theatre.
VOLUME 22 – (2000)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Australia Council’s Youth Panel; Zeal in 2000 (Zeal Theatre); The Blue Room; Strategic Alliances for Aesthetic Product (Pt 2); The Cement Garage Project; The 11th Playwrights’ Forum (Germany); Pacific Dream (NZ); Making an Indent (MusicNSW); Paving Pathways (South America); Take 3 (National Academy of Music)
Reviews: Urban Myth Theatre of Yth; Zip Antics; Salamanca Theatre; Footscray Community Arts Centre; La Luna Yth Arts; Glass Theatre.
No. 2 (APRIL) – Focus on Music
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Festival Frenzy; Reclaiming our Patch; Best Practice in Youth Arts?; Sensorium Aquatica; Opera QLD; Supporting Youth Music; Have Music Will Travel; Kids at the House; //www.orb.IT; HYPER; Selling the Performing Arts.
Reviews: Arena Theatre; Deckchair Theatre; Yirra Yaakin; The Guten Yungs International Theatre; Zen Zen Zo; Splash Theatre; Ghostlight Theatre and Theatre Simple; Canberra Youth Theatre.
No. 3 (JUNE – 21st BIRTHDAY ISSUE)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Lowdown and Australian Youth Performing Arts; Carclew and the Arts of Excellence; Gecko Tales; PACT – Continuity Through Change; Putting Together the Pieces – Jigsaw; The Backbone’s Connected to the…; Going the Distance – Arena; Corrugated Iron Youth Arts; Salamanca Theatre Company; 20 Years Young – Spare Parts Puppet Theatre
Reviews: Jigsaw; Union House Theatre; Carclew Youth Arts Centre; Restless Dance Theatre
No. 4 (AUGUST)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Out of the Box 2000; The Youth Panel so Far; Taking up the Challenge; Australian Content; Multi-Kulcha in the West; Multicultural Mayhem; Through Another’s Eyes; Toronto and Vancouver; Fank Sinatra Lives in Pittsburg.
REVIEWS: The Courthouse Project; Spare Parts; Opera Australia; Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Jumbuck Theatre; Rem Theatre; Kite Theatre; Patch Theatre
No. 5 (OCTOBER)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
ATYP’s – Man with a Vision; VIC Arted Program; Restless Dance (Paralympics ‘Precious’); Brisbane’s Powerhouse;; Street Arts (Brisbane); Buzz Dance (Buzzing); Clear Intentions – Salamanca; the Ainslie Arts Centre; The Great tale – CYT; Performance Space (NSW); Theatre for Young People in Switzerland; Beth at SEA (SEA).
REVIEWS: PYT; Border Yth Pilot Project; Ingrid Voorendt; Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech Union Arts; ATYP; SMB Performing Arts; PACT.
No. 6 (DECEMBER) – Focus on Emerging Artists
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Out of the Box in 2000; Interactive Theatre in Unconventional Spaces; A Program as Big as the State (QAC); Kazenoko in Oz; An Emerging Life (Astrid Pill); What are you Looking for in a Mentor?; Tasmania’s Emerging Theatre Artists Initiative; Youth Arts Queensland Mentoring; The Thinking Artist; Feeding the Theatre Animal (Jane Wollard looks at theatre training); Interplay Europe 2000.
REVIEWS: Backbone Yth Arts; Riverland Youth Theatre; Corrugated Iron Youth Arts; Barking Gecko Theatre Company; Terrapin Puppet Theatre; Shopfront Theatre; VRAP9 – VIC Arts Centre.
VOLUME 23 – (2001)
No. 1 (FEBRUARY)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Critical Debate in Youth Arts; Pushing the Boundaries (Comeout01); How Marketing helps you earn a Living in the Arts – Context and Content; A New Beginning (the new Children’s Theatre in Adelaide); Confest; The Arts & Young People; Theatre of Image 2001; Talking it Through (Patch Theatre); Here Come the Crickets (Kite Theatre); Side FX – the Plane Truth; Splash Theatre Company.
Reviews: Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Teatro Di Roma; Legs on the Wall & ATYP.
No. 2 (APRIL) – Focus on Prominent Companies and Major Events – Overseas touring
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Imaginating the Future (YPAA); Out of Place (Choreographic Centre); Opportunity is Knocking; New Directions for Cirkidz; International Collaborations and REM Theatre; Going OS (Barking Gecko); Hosting International Performing Arts Companies (Cate Fowler); Thinking Big (Christine Anketell); Going Global with Zeal; More Than just a Handshake;
Reviews: Powerhouse Youth and Citymoon; Playbox Theatre; Yirra Yaakin; Comeout01; Urban Myth Theatre of Youth; Buzz Dance Theatre; Kite Theatre
No. 3 (JUNE)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Major Cultural Institutions and Youth Arts; National Children’s Performing Arts Company; On the Road with Outback Theatre; Highlight on HighRise (Polyglot Puppet Theatre); Comeout01 (6 reviews); Triple Bill: The Chemical Brothers, CJ Dennis and Prokofiev; We Are Family – Deckchair Theatre; Four Queensland Regional Companies; By Young People, For Young People; BSX-Theatre; Around the Globe with Will Shakespeare; Screaming Cow Festival 2001.
Reviews: Polyglot Puppet Theatre; Union House Theatre; Vitalstatistix; Bohemian Productions.
No. 4 (August) - focus on performing arts experiences for people with deafness or disabilities
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Towards the Final Stretch (The Australia Council Youth Panel); Getting Past Square One (Restless Dance); The Australian Theatre of the Deaf; Catching the Fishman - Back to Back Theatre; Asylum in Arts (DADAA); Knights by Night (High Street Youth Health Service); Totally Wrecked Goes Head On; The Rapid Festival; Contact Inc.; ACT's 21st Century Happening (CYT); Joan Pope OAM - A Lady of Multiple Intelligence; A Unique Experience (Dave Brown reports on the ASSITEJ International Director's Seminar in Nuremberg)
Reviews: STEPS Youth Dance Company; Moving Pictures; WAAPA; PACT; Hothouse Theatre
No. 5 (October)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Utopian Dreams (final YPAA Paper); Freewheelin'; How to Belong in the 21st Century (Roger Hill); The New Directions of Terrapin Theatre; Sponsorship and the Arts - Fitting Bedfellows?; A Mother of a Festival (SA); The Lowdown on the World's Largest Schools Touring Program (QAC); The State of Festivals in the State of Festivals (WA); Marryatville's Multi-Arts Experience; LETTER - A Letter on Regional Touring (WA)
Reviews: Jigsaw Theatre; RMIT Union Arts; SYTE; R.L.Productions; Hi-NRG Youth Theatre; Salamanca Theatre Company; Chalk Music; The Australian Choreographic Centre.
No. 6 (December)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Technology, Age, Language and the By/For Split (2001 YPAA Conference); The Art of Climbing Trees (Glyn Parry); A Different Way of Working; New Technology Literate; Mixing the New with the Old; 'Microfair' @ Casula's Powerhouse Youth Theatre; Weird Stuff? (Dance Traders); Wilcannia - Coming at Ya; The 10 Minute Play; Not Just Bread and Butter (Brainstorm Productions); The State of Festivals in the State of Festivals (pt 2); Dogg-Pound's Tassie Tour; The National Music Camp; Calling Young Writers (Loudmouth project).
Reviews: Canberra Youth Theatre; Vietnamese Youth Media; Backbone Yth Arts, Contact and Catalyst; Music for Everyone; Polyglot Puppet Theatre & Terrapin Theatre.
VOLUME 24 – (2002)
No. 1 (February)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Goodbye to David Branson; The Youth and the Arts Policy (Australia Council update); ASSITEJ - A Global Alliance; Six Days on the Road...; Raising Tall Poppies (Graft ‘n’ Arts); Rehearsing a Dream (Hothouse & FFFC); YEP! - and wait there’s more...; Where the Wild Things Are (NICA); Building Bridges with Berthold (ATYP); The New Guy (SSPT)
Reviews: Terrapin Theatre; Sam Derchie (QAC); Soft Crash; A Young Mermaid’s Guide to Planet Earth; deBASE Productions; Courthouse Youth Arts Centre.
No. 2 (April) – FOCUS ON YOUTH DANCE
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Countdown to the ASSITEJ World Congress in Seoul 2002; About Youth Dance; Extensions Disconnected; Taking that Quantum Leap; Making Steps; Starting Something; New Directions for Stompin’; Dancing with Balls; Rabbit Proof Fence; ASYAG – Bigger than Art; LINK.
Reviews: PACT; Kooemba Jdarra; Urban Theatre Projects; Collective Unconcious.
No. 3 (June)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Windmill’s Big Tilt; Layer Upon Layer (OOTB Festival); is theatre limited?; Theatre of Image: Survivor Story; Flight of the Gecko (Barking Gecko); Expressing a New Theatrical Language (Arena Theatre); The Blue Roof (Jigsaw); REM Theatre; Life, Post-Interplay
Reviews: Patch Theatre; HotHouse Theatre; Kite Theatre; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Canberra Youth Theatre; Spanda Productions; Restless Dance Company.
No. 4 (August)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Catching up With Patch; Out of the Box; Seal Tales; Young Performers in the Desert Uplands; Living Theatre; Essentially Ellington; Looking for the Quality; The Incubator Project; Transience, Transition and Diversity; Two's Company; Riffs 'n' Raves. Reviews: Polyglot Puppet Theatre; Terrapin Theatre; Ausdance WA; Powerhouse Youth Theatre; Global Education Centre; Canberra Youth Theatre and Ebullient Theatre Company.
No.5 (October)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Across the Great Divide; Investing in Culture; Buzz in Seoul; Sticking a Cracker Under Our Artform; Making the Connection; The Edge; Circus to Die For!; Boys' Rule–Push and Shove; Altered States in Progress; Drama on the Edge.
Reviews: Splash Theatre Company; Barking Gecko Theatre Company; Shopfront Theatre; Deckchair Theatre; Courthouse; Opera Australia.
No.6 (December)
CO-EDITORS – TONY MACK, WAIATA TELFER
Introducing the Review; Reviewing Theatre For Young People; Indigenous People and Cultural Content in Art; Yirra Yaakin–Standing Tall; A Sense of Belonging and Identity; Bringing on a New Generation; Keep Standing Your Ground; Development and Tradance; Escape from Reality; A River that Unites and Divides; Home is where the Art(istic) Director is; Locomatrix–Dancer Incubator and Powdermonkey; Taking Risks with the Past; Groundswell.
Reviews: St Martins Youth Arts Centre; Arena Theatre Company; Jigsaw Theatre; Terrapin Theatre; Is Theatre Ltd.; Windmill Performing Arts.
VOLUME 25 – (2003)
No.1 (February)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Theatre for Young People in Australia; Getting into the Skin of Come Out 2003; An Awesome Diary; The ADs They are a Changin'; Playtime in Canberra; Journey's End at Heartland; Sunshine is not Enough; PACT's Latest Evolution; ATYP's National Gift to Writers; Get Noisy!; A Lizard Between Her Breasts; Sophie's Musical Choice.
Reviews: RMIT Union Arts; Buzz Dance Theatre/Link Dance Company/James Berlyn; Canberra Youth Theatre.
No.2 (April)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Museum Theatre; Across the Manicured Lawn; Edifice Complex; Producing Changes; An Audience with the Audience; Getting Off the Couch; Renovations and Innovations; About 2 Til 5; Tearing Down the Satin Curtain; Mentorships in Victoria.
Reviews: Cirkidz; Windmill Performing Arts/State Opera/ASO/Come Out; Barking Gecko Theatre Company; Comeout/Adelaide Festival Centre; Patch Theatre Company; SYTE; Strut Dance Inc.; Zeal Theatre Company.
No.3 (June)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Music from the Island; Violence Onstage; Shadow of War; Voyage of Discovery; It's a Girl Thing; Evaluating Youth Theatre; Where Adults Fear to Tread: Children's Theatre in Africa; Conspiracy or Cock Up?
Reviews: Hothouse Theatre; Backbone Youth Arts/PACT Youth Theatre; Terrapin Theatre; Monkey Baa Productions; Brainstorm Productions; Kite Theatre Company; Is Theatre Ltd.
No.4 (August)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Heart of SPARKness; The Annie Stainer School of Physical Theatre; Developing Your Audience; Out of the Box Symposium Hopeful; 3D Fest – A Tertiary Drama Festival; Technological Revolution Onstage!; 40 Years at ATYP; The Sum of its Arts; Input and Outlook; The 2003 International Directors Seminar.
Reviews: YP3; Splash Theatre Company; First Wave; WA Youth Theatre Company; Barking Gecko Theatre Company; Powerhouse Youth Theatre/Accessible Arts; Alice Springs Youth Arts Group.
No.5 (October)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Launching Propelarts; Performing With Zeal; Not Just an Hour's Entertainment (QAC); Emerging in Tasmania; Amazing (World Interplay); Youth Community Theatre in Canberra; Patch Plays the Field; TJ Eckleberg: The New Shopkeeper; Macro to Micro (Southern Edge Arts); Performance in Cultural Institutions Forum 2; On the Road Again (Outback Theatre Co.); A Canadian Fruit Fly Report; Les Polyscènes - International Encounters of Youth Theatre; On the Axis of Youth Arts.
Reviews: Para//elo; Steps Youth Dance Company; is Theatre Ltd; Australian Theatre of the Deaf.
No.6 (December)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; It All Comes at Once! (Out of the Box festival and ASSITEJ); Impressions from On the Axis; Sparking Youth Arts in Regional WA; In SYNC with Stompin; Indigenous Pride in the Northern Territory; Who is TINA? (National Young Writers' Festival); Summa Cum Laude – The Graduates (ACTT graduate showcase); Forging Arts and Educational Links (STC Education Program); Stressheads Unite at Urban Myth.
Reviews: Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble; Canberrra Youth Theatre; PACT Youth Theatre; Restless Dance Company; Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative.
VOLUME 26 – (2004)
No.1 (February)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; More Than a 'What's On' Guide (Next Wave Festival); Awesome Scores!; Kosova's Dodona Theatre for Children and Youth; Reference, Assemblage and Interactivity (Patch Theatre); Fling!; Is Theatre Changing...; Young Companies – Young Artists (in far north QLD); What's Cooking? (Barking Gecko); YEP! (Youth Education Program - Fringe). Reviews: ATYP/National Theatre; Arena Theatre Company/ Woodside Energy Ltd; PACT Youth Theatre; Arte Tangivel; Terrapin Theatre.
No.2 (April)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Just Keep Doing It (WA emerging artists); In the Beginning (young SA artists); Making a Career out of Your Passion (young QLD artists); Rock 101: Getting Started in the Music Business; Stylin' Up 04 Inala; The Australian Youth Dance Festival; Desert Perspectives and Limitless Horizons (InCite Youth Arts); Re-Igniting the Torch in Victorian Communities (The Torch Project).
Reviews: The Society For The Protection Of...; Adelaide Fringe YEP Program; Adelaide Fringe (student reviews); Warehouse Circus; Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; Fiasco Practice; Cirkidz; Canberra Youth Theatre.
No.3 (June)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Launching the New YPAA; Afternoon of the Elves (Windmill Performing Arts/State Theatre); Age of Consent (Stompin Youth Dance Co); Immersed (Zen Zen Zo); Who's Developing Who? (Wan Smolbag Theatre, Vanuatu); Stop That House (Polyglot Puppet Theatre); ASSITEJ in Jordan; Weaving Tales for Survival (Theatre of Image); Fifteen! (STEPS Youth Dance Co); QPAC's 2004 Out of the Box; New Directions at Westside (Westside Circus).
Reviews: Kite Theatre; PACT Youth Theatre; Buzz Dance Theatre; Australian Choreographic Centre.
No.4 (August) – Music focus
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get the Lowdown; Entertain Yourself; Getting Out There; Making Music Possible for Everyone (Music for Everyone); Euphonic Temples (IHOS); Opera Australia's OzOpera; Funding the Future; A UK Visit (Polka Theatre and Box Clever Theatre); Experiencing dance as Work (Australian Choreographic Centre); The Transit Lounge Takes Off; A Little Health and Wellbeing (Urban Myth Theatre of Youth); The EARTH Symposium; The Out of The Box Children's Forum.
Reviews: Citymoon Theatre Company; Corrugated Iron Youth Arts; Is Theatre Ltd.; Shopfront Theatre for Young People; Terrapin Theatre; Zeal Theatre/Regional Arts Victoria.
No.5 (October)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get The Lowdown; Tokyo's International Children's Theatre Festival; The Daedalus Project (WA Youth Theatre Company); The Lost Thing (Jigsaw Theatre Company); Order in the House (Courthouse Youth Arts Centre); Dogs, Cats – But No Famous People Holding Snakes (Queensland Arts Council); Tantrum Fills the Void; The Arts Rules in Schools; CSO's Symphony for Kids; Backbone Youth Arts' 2high Festival; Pushing the Envelope (Melbourne Fringe).
Reviews: Y3P; Patch Theatre Company; Platform Youth Theatre; Windmill Performing Arts/State Theatre Company; Splash Theatre Company; Jigsaw Theatre Company; Quantum Leap Youth
Choreographic Ensemble.
No.6 (December)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Get The Lowdown; Tracing the Steps of Restless Dance; They're Not Hiding Anymore (DADAA WA); Becoming Disability-cool; Working Back to Back; Signing the Singing Sid (OzOpera); Young Writers at the Royal Court; Terrapin's New Directions; arts2go; The Chapters of Our Tour – Cabramatta Story; The Australian National Piano Award; Wadya Call Me? (Shopfront Theatre).
Reviews: Children, Meaning making And The Arts (book review); Barking Gecko Theatre Company; Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People; Steps Youth Dance Company; Canberra Youth Orchestra/Sydney Youth Orchestra; Canberra Youth Theatre/Powerhouse Youth Theatre.
VOLUME 27 – (2005)
No.1 (February)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
The New Australia Council; Opening the Curtain in East Timor; Out There Everywhere (Young Leaders in Community Cultural Development Awards (CCD), Australia Council); Being Human at Come Out 2005; AWESOME and APPN in 2004; Young People and Social Change (UNESCO); Fresh Funk (Tuggeranong Arts Centre); The Lunar Cycle (La Luna Youth Arts); Auditioning for Acting School; Celebrating 25 Years of the Australian Script Centre; That’s Education, That’s Performance, That’s First Class Stuff (Robinvale Secondary College and Community Brass Band); Sheela’s Story (Sheela Langeberg); Pan Pacific – Music by the Beach; Breaking the Mould (Newmet Intr-active).
Reviews:
OzOpera/Windmill Performing Arts (Midnite); Arena Theatre Company (Gamegirl); PACT Youth Theatre (Suspect).
No.2 (April)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
Get the Lowdown; Go Pinocchio (Theatre of Image); Barking Gecko and Magabala Books; New Directions in Youth Arts in Darwin (Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, Jeremy Rice); Directing the Theatre of the Deaf (Australian Theatre for the Deaf); Community Change in the Riverland (Riverland Youth Theatre); Making Theatre (Be Active- BSX Theatre); Beyond Exclusion, Beyond Inclusion (Brisbane City Council, Re:create); ZAPT.
Reviews:
WA Youth Theatre Company (Fallout); Come Out 2005 Reviews; Jigsaw Theatre Company (The Lost Thing), Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (Aqua Sapiens); Queensland Performing Arts Centre (Ukulele Mekulele), Big Monkey Inc. (Monkey Magic)
No.3 (June)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
Get the Lowdown; Blak Nite ’05 and Beyond (Carclew Youth Arts Centre); Zen And The Art of Selling Shows (Kim Peter Kovac, John F Kennedy Center); Katrina Packs Her Suitcases (Powerhouse Youth Theatre); Vin (Jigsaw Theatre Company); The Bonderman; Quantum Leap’s Reckless Valour; Machinations, Meandering and Musings (YPAA’s International Symposium on Theatre Making for young audiences); Praxis – Arts and Education.
Reviews:
Backbone Youth Arts Inc (The River, the Dirt & Us); Be Active BSX – Theatre (The Visit); Stompin Youth Dance (Citizen); STEPS Youth Dance Company (Mania).
No. 4 (August)
GUEST EDITOR – LEIGH MANGIN
Features:
Get the Lowdown; With Passion and Commitment – Hidden Corners; Infinity and Beyond (Urban Myth, Theatre of Youth); Symphony of Survival (Contact Inc and Peace Initiative); Holding the Balance (Queensland Arts Council, Ontour inschools program); 2005 Biting Dog Theatre Festival; New Horizons for Southern Edge Arts; ‘I’m a Child of the Place’(St Martin’s Youth Arts Centre); Still Buzzing: atyp’s Hive of Activity; Festival of Voices – Community and Celebration; Creative Learning Spaces.
Reviews:
Powerhouse Youth Theatre (Divine Places); Tantrum Theatre (Summer of the Aliens); Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (The Velveteen Rabbit).
No. 5 (October)
GUEST EDITOR – LEE-ANN BUCKSKIN
Features:
Get the Lowdown; Garma – Indigenous Cultural Festival; Ilbijerri and Polyglot; Handprints: Inspire the Next Wave (Carclew Youth Arts Centre); Kurruru’s Circle of Work; Aboriginal Playwrights Take New York (The Australian Aboriginal Theatre Initiative); Yirra Yaakin – Honest and Hard Hitting; No Stretch Imaging Naomi’s Future (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Skills Development Association; The Magdalena Project; Total Theatre – Independent, Organic, Holistic; The 18th International Directors’ Seminar.
Reviews:
Patch Theatre Company (Pigs, Bears and Billy Goats Gruff); Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre (Wakaid Girl- Lyndhurst Kid); STEPS Youth Dance Co. (Boys Can Dance); Actors for Refugees (Something to Declare).
No.6 (December)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
Get the Lowdown; Angels In The Architecture (Shopfront Theatre for Young People); Children’s Voices (Windmill Performing Arts); International Museum Theatre Alliance Conference; Australia in Montreal (ASSITEJ); A Special Delivery of Enchantment (Patch Theatre Company); New and Different Tastes (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre); Conceiving the Missing Link (Arena Theatre Company); Backing our Creativity (Australia Council).
Reviews:
Books ; Urban Myth Theatre of Youth (My Sister Violet); Courthouse Youth Arts Centre (Blind Mice– 3 short tales); Buzz Dance Theatre (RabbiT); Terrapin Puppet Theatre (Boxes); National University Theatre Society (One Night Only).
VOLUME 28 – (2006)
No.1 (February)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
A Future So Bright (SPARK National Mentoring Program); Overcoming Distance – Outback Theatre; The Sixth atyp National Studio; Ten Awesome Years (Awesome Festival); The Next Wave of Empire Games (Next Wave Festival); 2High Hits Its Stride (2high Festival); ‘The Leading Light of Family Theatre’ (Windmill Performing Arts); Opening the Curtain to Theatre in East Timor (Loke Kurtina); ‘YEP! I Wanna Support YEP!’(Adelaide Fringe Youth and Education Program).
Reviews:
Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People (Pearlie in the Park); Splash Theatre Company (The King’s New Suit); Western Edge Youth Arts (Object: Future); BKU Theatre (Open House).
No.2 (April)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
Get The Lowdown; About UNIMA; New Stories Beautifully Told (is theatre ltd); The Kids Aren’t All Right; Back In Blue (And Teal…) (Blue Room, Perth); Great Ideas… (Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People); Voicing Canberra’s Secrets (Canberra Youth Theatre).
Reviews:
PACT Youth Theatre (Constellations); Adelaide Fringe Youth & Education (YEP) Program; Patch Theatre Company (Special Delivery).
No.3 (June)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
Get The Lowdown; Landscape – Time, Place, Identity (Quantum Leap Youth Choreographic Ensemble); ‘3wAyXchange’ (Fruit Fly Circus, Zip Xap Circus and Brewarrina Youh Circus); Dream, Believe, Create (Slipstream Circus); Things of Foam and Wood (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre); The Four Vital Virtues (Riverland Youth Theatre); ‘Gronks’ (Zeal Theatre); dEadly mOb; Brett Dean at ANAM; Make It New? (Australia Council Theatre Board)
Reviews:
WA Youth Theatre Company (Cloudstreet); Jigsaw Theatre Company (Big Sister, Little Brother); Arena Theatre Company (Missing Link); Buzz Dance Theatre (PreTender).
No.4 (August)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Features:
Congress Director Announced (ASSITEJ); New Directions for the Queensland Arts Council; RAW Power (Rock Eisteddfod); QAC’s Out of the Box; Circus is Everywhere (National Institute of Circus Arts – NICA); What’s Goin’ Down in Carclew Town?; New Visions, New Voices; The Wright Stuff; NIDA Young Actors Studio
Reviews:
Kite Theatre (Kese Solwata); ANU School of Music (Carnivale!), Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (The Arrival); Woden Valley Youth Choir (Annual Concert).
No. 5 (October)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Assistant Editor – Anna Held
Features:
Lulie The Iceberg – Found in Translation by Tracy Ellis (NSW); 40 years of Arena by Jessamy Dyer. (Victoria); The Fourth Collaborator by Lenora Inez Brown. (International; Popular Culture, Wonder and Discovery by Jeremy Rice/Joanna Worthington (WA); The BHP Billiton Youth Arts Fund by Tony Mack,(SA); Darkening The Lines by David Megarity and Clare Carmody (National); BKU Theatre by Eulea Kiraly (ACT); Spaces Between Places by Laurie Webb (SA); Marian Street Thetre for Young People by Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Reviews:
Midnite – Marian Street Theatre for Young People by Tracy Ellis (NSW); What BIG Teeth You Have! – Splash Theatre Company, by Caroline Reid (SA); KissXXX – STEPS Youth Dance Company, by Shirley Van Sanden (WA); Pop Up – Shopfront Theatre for Young People by Tommy Murphy (NSW)
No. 6 (December)
EDITOR – TONY MACK
Assistant Editor – Anna Held
Features:
The Regional Wave by David Ryding, (QLD); Back To Country by Tracy Rigney, (SA); SEA’s Rising by Clare Valley, (WA); HipHop in Central Australia by Daniel Burdon, (NT); The Four Little Girls (ACT); From Perth to Buenos Aires, Tony Mack, (INT); The New Girls in Town, Eulea Kiraly, (ACT); More than Just a Presenter, Chris Kohn, (VIC).
Reviews:
Book Reviews by Glen R Johns (National); Colourwheel – Buzz Dance Theatre by Shirley Van Sanden (WA); The 3rd Place: Hope Tour – Contact Inc by Madeleine Hinchy (Qld); Hitlers Daughter – Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People by Katrina Douglas (NSW).
Volume 29 (2007)
Lowdown February/March 2007 Volume 29 Number 2
EDITOR: TONY MACK
Features
The Windmill Momentum in 2007 by Laurie Webb. (SA); Disaster and Beauty by Chris Kohn. (VIC); Sydney Theatre Company Education by Tracey Ellis. (NSW); Amalgamation by Susanne Kennedy. (TAS); Interplay Online by David Ryding. (QLD); Facing Fear by Shirley Van Sanden. (WA); Gathering Ground by Katrina Douglas. (NSW); Being Independent by Anna Held. (National); The Sun, the Moon and the Pea Soup Fog by Shirley Van Sanden. (UK)
Reviews:
Urban Myth Theatre of Youth (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) by Anna Held (SA); Canberra Youth Theatre (The Moth Tree) by Eulea Kiraly (ACT); Westside Circus (A Thousand Steps) by Jessamy Dyer (ACT).
Lowdown April/May 2007 Volume 29 Number 2
EDITOR: TONY MACK
Features:
Come Out 2007 by Laurie Webb. (SA); Flying to the Front by Nina Levy. (WA); Youth Theatre in Nambia by Frederick B. Philander. (International); So Bright by Lisette Ogg. (National); Food for Thought by Pru Gell. (NT); Out of this World by Madeleine Hinchy. (QLD); Subject in Space by Shirley Van Sanden. (WA); Canberra Wet Season by Eulea Kiraly. (ACT); Installation Theatre by Cate Fowler. (National).
Reviews:
Lucy Who Productions (Underwhere) by Susanne Kennedy (TAS); Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image (Lulie the Iceberg) by Tommy Murphy (NSW/JAPAN).
Lowdown June/July 2007 Volume 29 Number 3
EDITORS: TONY MACK/JANE GRONOW
Assistant Editor – Anna Held
FeaturesThe politics of youth entertainment: Indent Seven Years On by Tracey Ellis. (NSW); Tetrafide by Neville Talbot. (WA); Wam Bam Thank You Mam! by Neville Talbot. (WA); Reflecting Life Through One’s Inner Voice by Melissa Robertson. (QLD); More Than Just Live Music by Zac Exner. (SA); Celebrating Canberra Youth Music by Estelle Muspratt. (ACT); Freeza by Chris Kohn. (VIC); Sydney Youth Orchestra by Tracey Ellis. (NSW); Praxis by Lynda Smerdon. (Int)
Reviews:
Come Out 2007 – Show Reviews- The Legend of Ned Kelly, Terrapin Puppet Theatre (TAS) by Laurie Webb- Lullaby, Lady Killers (SA) by Laurie Webb- Hickory Dickory Dock, Patch Theatre by by Laurie Webb- Miss Lily and the ASO by Adelaide Symphony Orchestra by Dr Anna Hickey-Moodey- Vin, Professional Collective (SA) by Dr Anna Hickey-Moodey, Rebel Rebel, Restless Dance Company, (SA) by Dr Anna Hickey-Moodey; Salamanca Arts Centre (Dream Masons) by Susanne Kennedy (TAS) ; Pops For Tots (VIC) by Sarah Lockwood; WA Youth Theatre Company (Two Weeks With the Queen) by Shirley Van Sanden.
Lowdown August/ September 2007 Volume 29 Number 4
EDITOR: JANE GRONOW
Assistant Editor – Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Windmill Performing Arts (SA)
Features:
Emma’s Dynasty- Kate’s School Project by Eulea Kirally (ACT); Youth Music Festivals Balancing the Budget with the Babysitting by Tracy Ellis (NSW); Unlocking the Universal Story by Eliza Lovell (Nat/ SA); The Reunion by Saffron Benner (QLD); The Writing or the Writer by David Ryding (VIC); An Artist’s Perspective by Emma Beech (Int/ SA); Come Home by Lucy Evans (QLD)
Reviews:
Steps- Boys Can Dance by Shirley Van Sanden (WA); Urban Myth Youth Theatre- Out of the Boot #2 by Caroline Reid (SA); Bring Me The Head of Edgar Allan Poe by Peter Wilkins (ACT).
Lowdown October/ November 2007 Volume 29 Number 5
EDITORS: JANE GRONOW
Assistant Editor – Samantha Ryan
On the cover: Terrapin Puppet Theatre (TAS)
Features
Explosion Therapy- Frank Newman for Terrapin Puppet Theatre by Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS); Improvilicious- ‘Look Ma No Script!’ by Shirley Van Sanden (WA); Comfort in Numbers- The Emerging Ensemble by David Finnigan (ACT); Next Generation- Building the Next Generation of Leaders by Tony Mack and Jason Cross (INT); Reaping the Seeds: A Garden of Thoughts by Sandra Gattenhoff and Richard Sallis (INT).
Reviews:
Beyond the Neck by Susanne Kennedy (TAS); The Little Gentleman by Laurie Webb (SA); Prayer to an Iron God by Samantha Ryan (SA); Dr Egg and the Man With No Ear by Mark Tregonning (VIC); Playground 2007 by Peter Wilkins (ACT).
Lowdown December/ January 2008 Volume 29 Number 6
EDITORS: JANE GRONOW
Assistant Editor – Samantha Ryan
On the cover: ASSITEJ 16th World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young People (SA/ INT)
Features
Fear and Desire: David Diamond and the Theatre for Living by Kym Begg (SA); Are You Ready to Be Human? by Caroline Reid (SA/ INT); Diversity at Home- What’s In Store for Awesome 2007 by Shirley Van Sanden (WA); Uniquely Carclew by Laurie Webb (SA); The Way Forward…A Long Winding Road by Ann Roylance (QLD/ NAT); Youth Arts and Disability…Building Partnerships to Support Cultural Rights by Gareth Wreford (NSW/ NAT);
Reviews:
The Chookas Festival by Sarah Lockwood (VIC); Paradise- The Musical by glen r johns (QLD)
Volume 30 (2008)
February/ March 2008 Volume 30 Number 1
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the cover- Sydney Opera House Kids at the House ProgrammeFeatures:
UNIMA and the UNIMA Congress and International Puppet Festival by Jennifer Pfeiffer (WA, INT)
Talking Points by Matt Rubenstein (NSW)
QL2 Centre for Youth Dance Launch by Eulea Kirally (ACT)
The Fly in the Soup by Samantha Ryan (SA)
By the Sea by Simon Clarke (WA)
The Give and Take of Arts Funding: Arts Funding in Queensland by Saffron Benner (QLD)
Confronting the Mainstream- Deaf Theatre Widens Its Appeal by Ashley Walker (NSW, NAT)
YEP It’s the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Youth and Education Programme by Glen Christie (SA)
Reviews:
Second to None, Kurruru Indigenous Youth Arts by Jared Thomas (SA)
Comfort, Canberra Youth Theatre by Peter Wilkins (ACT)
Tales from a Watertight World. Westside Circus by Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Lotophagi: The Lotus Eater, PACT by Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Explosion Therapy, Terrapin Puppet Theatre by Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
Cinderella, Total Theatre by Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Scripts- Boy Overboard and Hitler’s Daughter by Caroline Reid
Regular Sections;
Editorial
Get the Lowdown (National News)
ASSITEJ International News
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
What’s On
State Contributing Editors:
ACT- Irma Gold
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Chris Kohn
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
NSW Music- Tracy Ellis
WA Music- Neville Talbot
Writers:
Jennifer Pfeiffer (VIC)
Matt Rubenstein (NSW)
Eulea Kirally (ACT)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Simon Clarke (WA)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
Ashley Walker (NSW)
Glen Christie (SA)
Jared Thomas (SA)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Caroline Reid (SA)
Charles Bracewell (SA)
April/ May issue 2008 Vol 30 No 2
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
Features:
Second to None- Leadership and Legacy by Jared Thomas (SA)
The Secret of Clowning Success by Saffron Benner (QLD)
Feel the Power of Canberra by Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Harder or Smarter by Anne Roylance (National)
Young Playwrights Get Fresh Ink by Ashley Walker (NSW)
Feeding the Art of Polyglot by Sue Giles (VIC)
Fresh Artistic Director is first through the ranks by Ethan Tomas (WA)
Everyone Loves a Clown (National)
Reviews:
Make ‘Em Laugh, Narrabundah College by glen r johns (SA, ACT)
As You Like It, Bell Shakespeare by Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy, Slingsby by John Ovenden (SA)
Xtreme Popera, Flipside Circus by glen r johns (SA, QLD)
Australia Vs. South Africa, Barking Gecko by Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Ngapartji Ngapartji, Company B and Big hart, by James Waites (NT)
Regular Sections;
Editorial
Get the Lowdown (National News)
ASSITEJ International News
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
What's On
State Contributing Editors:
ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Chris Kohn
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
NSW Music- Tracy Ellis
WA Music- Neville Talbot
Writers:
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Anne Roylance (QLD)
Ashley Walker (NSW)
Sue Giles (VIC)
Jared Thomas (SA)
Ethan Tomas (WA)
glen r johns (SA)
James Waites (NT)
Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Pru Gell (NT)
Caro Jende (QLD)
Chris Kohn (VIC)
Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Neville Talbot (NSW)
John Ovenden (SA)
June/ July 2008 Volume 30 No 3
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Australian Youth Orchestra
Features:
Children, the Arts and the Quality of Nations- New Visions, New Voices 2008 By Dave Brown (SA)
Forty Years On by Saffron Benner (QLD)
Pocketfool for Preschoolers- A view from the last frontier by Jennifer Anderson (VIC)
Story Magic- The making of a festival by Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
A Review in Dialogue from late nights at the UNIMA International Puppetry Festival, Perth, April 2008 by Frank Newman and Sara Cooper (WA,TAS)
Child Friendly Rose by Caroline Reid (SA, NT)
Questioning Moves to the Future by Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
ASSITEJ Festival Reviews:
Cat (Windmill Performing Arts) by Kym Begg and Isaac Harding (SA)
Ach Ach Boom Traach (The Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa) by Jared Thomas (Israel)
Australia v South Africa (Zeal Theatre and Ellis and Bheki) by glen r johns and Molly Wundenberg (NSW, South Africa)
Chaos in Unison (Hands Percussion Team) by Samantha Ryan (Malaysia)
Chronicles of a Sleepless Moon (The Suitcase Royale) by John Ovenden (VIC)
Cinderella Dressed in Yella (Buzz Dance Theatre) by glen r johns (WA)
Curfew (Urban Myth Theatre of Youth, Tutti Arts, New Met Interactive Dance, Cirkidz) by Jared Thomas (SA)
Dispatch (Barking Spider Visual Theatre Inc) by Peter Wilkins (VIC)
Fluff (Christine Johnson and QPAC) by Ursula Beaumont (QLD)
Gamoonjang Baby (Play BST) by Peter Wilkins (Korea)
Gilgamesh (Uncle Semolina (& friends)) by John Ovenden (VIC)
Goodbye Mr. Muffin (Teater Refleksion and Teatret De Rode Heste) by Ursula Beaumont (Denmark)
Halli Halla (Teater Tre) by Peter Wilkins (Sweden)
Headhunter (Polyglot Puppet Theatre and Ilbijerri Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Theatre Cooperative) by Peter Wilkins (VIC)
Headlock (KAGE) by Peter Wilkins (VIC)
Hoods (Real TV) by John Ovenden (QLD)
Junkyard Symphony (Ben Walsh) by Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart (NSW)
Men of Steel (Men of Steel) by Amy Scott and Anu Francis (VIC)
Mr McGee and the Biting Flea (Patch Theatre Company) by Estelle Muspratt (SA)
Never Say Die (Mahajanok) (Makhampom Theatre Group) by Kym Begg (Thailand)
Nyet Nyet's Picnic (Snuff Puppets and Indigenous Artists) by Kym Begg (VIC)
Ollie and the Minotaur (floogle) by Samantha Ryan
Robinson and Crusoe (Junges Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf) by Jared Thomas (Germany)
Suitcase and Ziggy Swift (Krinkl Theatre) by Ursula Beaumont (NSW)
Surprise (Uberraschung) (Dsungel Wien) by Peter Wilkins and Isaac Astill (Austria)
The Green Sheep (Windmill Performing Arts) by Lachlan Tetlow- Stuart (SA)
The Red Road (Arigon Starr) by Estelle Muspratt (United States of America)
The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy (Slingsby) by Estelle Muspratt (SA)
The Voyage (Michi-nu-sura) (Kijimuna Dance and Music Troupe) by Peter Wilkins (Japan)
Vula (The Conch) by Samantha Ryan (New Zealand)
Regular Sections:
Editorial
Get the Lowdown (National News)
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
New South Wales and WA music column
What's On
State Contributing Editors:
ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Chris Kohn
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
NSW Music- Tracy Ellis
WA Music- Neville Talbot
Writers:
Dave Brown (SA)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
Jennifer Anderson (VIC)
Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
Frank Newman (TAS)
Sara Cooper (TAS)
Caroline Reid (NT)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Kim Begg (SA)
John Ovenden (SA)
Peter Wilkins (ACT)
Isaac Harding (SA)
Jared Thomas (SA)
glen r johns (SA)
Molly Wundenberg (SA)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Lachlan Tetlow- Stuart (SA)
Isaac Astill (SA)
Amy Scott (SA)
Anu Francis (SA)
August/ September 2008 Volume 30 No 4
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Incite Youth Arts (NT)
Features:
Artists in Schools- program, process and product by Stephen Noonan (SA)
So I have a Bachelor of Arts...What Now? by Amy Welsh (WA)
Taboo! by Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Making Connections by Leigh Boswell (QLD)
Westside Circus by Karla Dondio (VIC)
National Folk Festival by Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Illegal Downloading by Tracy Ellis (NSW)
A Place for a Pilgrim by Caroline Reid (NT)
Crash by Andrew Wright (QLD)
The Week the Revolution Came to Town by Lachlan Tetlow- Stuart (SA)
Reviews:
Too Hot to Handle (Jigsaw Theatre Company) by Peter Wilkins (ACT)
Struck (Tracks Dance) by Caroline Reid (NT)
Boat (KITE Arts Education Program) at QPAC by David Burton (QLD)
Boom Bah! (Windmill) by Ursula Beaumont (SA)
The Bridge (randomACTS) by Gemma Gray (VIC)
The Rusalka Thread (Mythophobic Productions) by Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Regular Sections:
Editorial
Get the Lowdown (National News)
Load_Ed arts and education column
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
New South Wales and WA music column
What's On
State Contributing Editors:
ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Sarah Lockwood
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
NSW Music- Tracy Ellis
WA Music- Neville Talbot
Writers:
Stephen Noonan (SA)
Amy Welsh (WA)
Madeleine Hinchy (SA)
Leigh Boswell (QLD)
Karla Dondio (VIC)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Caroline Reid (NT)
Andrew Wright (QLD)
Lachlan Tetlow- Stuart (SA)
Caro Jende (QLD)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Pru Gell (NT)
Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Neville Talbot (WA)
Peter Wilkins (ACT)
David Burton (QLD)
Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Gemma Gray (VIC)
October/ November 2008 Volume 30 No 5
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Come Out Festival (SA)
Features:
Once Upon a Midnight by Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Engaging, Connecting, Imagining by David Burton (QLD)
In Search of the Holy Grail by Mark Radvan (QLD)
High Sage of the Cheeky Monkey Clan by Caroline Reid (NT)
Awesome 2008 by Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Colliding Worlds by Samantha Ryan (SA)
Reviews:
My sister, my brother (QL2 Centre for Youth Dance) by Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Cirque du Funk (Corrugated Iron Youth Arts) by Caroline Reid (NT)
The Shape of a Girl (Sydney Opera House) by Rebecca Meston (NSW)
VX18504 (Australian Theatre for Young People) by Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Stone Fragments (La Luna Youth Arts) by Lynn Scott-Cumming (QLD)
Helly’s Magic Cup (Windmill Performing Arts) by John Ovenden (SA)
Girl Who Cried Wolf (Arena Theatre Company) by Lucy Evans (VIC)
Regular Sections:
Editorial
Get the Lowdown (National News)
Load:ED arts and education column
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
New South Wales and WA music column
What’s On
State Contributing Editors:
ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Sarah Lockwood
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
NSW Music- Tracy Ellis
WA Music- Neville Talbot
Writers:
Ursula Beaumont (SA)
David Burton (QLD)
Mark Radvan (QLD)
Caroline Reid (NT)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Ashley Walker (NSW)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Rebecca Meston (NSW)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Lyn Scott- Cumming (QLD)
John Ovenden (SA)
Lucy Evans (VIC)
Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Lenine Bourke (QLD)
Caro Jende (QLD)
Pru Gell (NT)
Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Neville Talbot (WA)
December/ January 2009 Volume 30 No 6
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Windmill (SA)
Features:Sustaining Youth Arts by Anna Hickey-Moody (National)
Actors at Work by Rebecca Meston (NSW)
Starting From Scratch by Amy Welsh (WA)
Sparks Fly! (National)
Sydney Children’s Festival by Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Is It Art? by Samantha Ryan (SA/ NSW)
Reviews:
The Messenger (Canberra Youth Theatre) by Peter Wilkins (ACT)
Bronte (Metro Arts and ThreeSisters Productions) by Alexandra McCallum (QLD)
Once Upon a Midnight (OzAsia Festival, Kijimuna Festival and Flinders Drama Centre) by Samantha Ryan (SA/ Japan)
Helena and the Journey of Hello (Terrapin Puppet Theatre) by Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest (Restless Dance Theatre and Rawcus) by Anna Hickey- Moody (SA/ VIC)
Portraits of Modern Evil (Black Swan State Theatre Company) by Julia Petricevic (WA)
Regular Sections:
Editorial
Load:ED arts and education column
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
New South Wales and WA music column
What’s On
State Contributing Editors:
ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Sarah Lockwood
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
NSW Music- Tracy Ellis
WA Music- Neville Talbot
Arts and Education- Saffron Benner
Writers:
Anna Hickey- Moody (VIC)
Rebecca Meston (NSW)
Amy Welsh (WA)
Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Lenine Bourke (QLD)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Pru Gell (NT)
Caro Jende (QLD)
Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Neville Talbot (WA)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
Peter Wilkins (ACT)
Alexandra McCallum (QLD)
Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
Julia Petricevic (WA)
February/ March 2009 Volume 31 No 1
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Sydney Opera House (NSW)
Features:
Arts and the National Curriculum by Estelle Muspratt (National)Wireless Voices (SA)
Theatre from the very beginning! by Tony Mack (International)
The State of Interplay in Africa by Ashley Walker (International)
Shakin’ Shakespeare by Dave Burton (QLD)
Ten Days on the Island by Richard Bladel (TAS)
Lights, Camera Theatre? by Daniel Evans (QLD)
Reviews:
The Wild Boys (Australian Theatre of the Deaf) by Phoebe Macrossan (NSW)Romeo and Juliet (Urban Myth Theatre of Youth) by Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Blood (Western Australian Youth Theatre Company) by Ethan Tomas (WA)
Regular Sections:Editorial
Load:ED arts and education column
National music column
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
What’s On
Contributing Editors:ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Sarah Lockwood
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
National Music- Tracy Ellis
Arts and Education- Saffron Benner
Writers:
Tony Mack (SA)
Ashley Walker (NSW)
Dave Burton (QLD)
Richard Bladel (TAS)
Daniel Evans (QLD)
Phoebe Macrossan (NSW)
Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Ethan Tomas (WA)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Pru Gell (NT)
Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland (QLD)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
April/ May 2009 Volume 31 No 2
Editor- Jane Gronow
Assistant Editor- Samantha Ryan
On the Cover: Come Out festival
Features:
Cooking in Prato by Tony Mack (SA/ International)
Blak Nite Shines with Glamour and Pride by Narisha Cash (SA)
Band Camp: Supporting Young Musicians in the Regions by Caro Jende (QLD)
A Time to Shine by Amy Welsh (WA)
Australian Script Centre takes over the world (National)
Fat Lip Drama by Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Tasmanian Circus Festival by Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
Reviews:
Collection #7 (the Australian Script Centre, Nat) by glen r johns (SA)
Ava’s Grá, (Canberra College Drama, ACT) by Kimberley Mann (SA)
The Promise (The Flying Fruit Fly Circus, NSW) by glen r johns (SA)
The Happiest Show on Earth (Patch Theatre Company, SA) by Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Nargun and the Stars (Erth Visual & Physical Inc, NSW, presented by Barking Gecko, WA) by Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Regular Sections:
Editorial
Load:ED arts and education column
National music column
YPAA Column
State Columns from every state and territory
What’s On
Contributing Editors:
ACT- Estelle Muspratt
NSW- Madeleine Hinchy
NT- Pru Gell
QLD- Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland
SA- Samantha Ryan
TAS- Finegan Kruckemeyer
VIC- Sarah Lockwood
WA- Shirley Van Sanden
National Music- Tracy Ellis
Arts and Education- Saffron Benner
Writers:
Tony Mack (SA)
Narisha Cash (SA)
Amy Welsh (WA)
Ursula Beaumont (SA)
Susanne Kennedy (TAS)
Estelle Muspratt (ACT)
Madeleine Hinchy (NSW)
Pru Gell (NT)
Caro Jende, Youth Arts Queensland (QLD)
Samantha Ryan (SA)
Finegan Kruckemeyer (TAS)
Sarah Lockwood (VIC)
Shirley Van Sanden (WA)
Tracy Ellis (NSW)
Saffron Benner (QLD)
glen r johns (SA)
Kimberley Mann (SA)
NOTE: Some of these issues are out of print, however we are happy to provide you with photocopies of the articles (within reason) you want to look up.
