Welcome to ‘The Playroom’

A girl plays on a wine glass orchestra and a boy builds a spiralling city of wooden blocks. An old man and woman sit outside a lolly shop; they watch each other watching the world. Shadow puppets and paper dolls rain down and a boy and girl decorate seemingly endless rows of steaming gingerbread men…

Welcome to ‘The Playroom’ where theatre is darkly comic and accompanied by an orchestra of children’s toy musical instruments. Where little children play with adult’s toys and forget that even though they’re playing make believe, the toys are real.

‘The Playroom’ is an original musical theatre performance/installation presented by a core cast of six talented performers. The production has been written and scored by Alisa Tanaka-King and directed by Brienna Macnish, both members of St. Martin’s Youth Theatre Creative Ensembles 2007/2008.

The show gathers together emerging artists who have worked with some of Melbourne’s most significant youth theatre organisations including St Martin’s Performers Ensemble, Platform Youth Theatre and RMIT Union Arts.

‘The Playroom’ can be visited twice nightly by meeting your guide in the Festival Hub Foyer (Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall) for performances at 6:30p.m. and 8:00p.m. The season runs from October 1 to October 11. There are no performances on October 6 or 7.