At its heart, The Suitcase Series is an opportunity for young people to engage deeply with the theatre making experience from conception, to creation, to presentation. Acknowledging students as young artists, The Suitcase Series empowers participants to tackle the greatest challenge of their generation – climate change.
The Suitcase Series is both a show and an innovative education program by Malthouse Theatre. Equipped with an innovative script, stimulus materials and their own wits, The Suitcase Series actively engages Year 9 & 10 students within school time across the semester, culminating in a performance day with their peers and a professional cast.
The Suitcase Series is currently offered through two works developed by the Malthouse Theatre:
HAPPINESS (2010) by Maryanne Lynch and Directed by Kate Sulan
TAME (2012) by Declan Greene and Directed by Kate Sulan
Happiness satisfies the curriculum component for VELS Level 6 Drama, The Arts: Creating and Making and is an ideal foundation for students intending to study Unit 3: Drama and Theatre Studies.
The Suitcase Series in 2012 – An Overview for Teachers
The Suitcase Series is supported by the Ian Potter Foundation and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development through its Special Partnerships Program.
HAPPINESS
The inaugural and important work that started it all, Happiness now in its third year in 2012, will be touring beyond the Malthouse Theatre to take this innovative project and work to students outside Melbourne.
Happiness is the winner of the 2011 Drama Victoria Award for Innovative Curriculum for Drama (7-10)
Malthouse Theatre presents
HAPPINESS
By Maryanne Lynch
Directed by Kate Sulan
Design by Anna Cordingley
Composition and Sound Design by Jethro Woodward
Lighting Design by Lucy Birkinshaw
With
Jodie Le Vesconte
Terry Yeboah
Natasha Herbert
James Saunders
“This is a work about fire and ice; about extremities and what happens when we push, and are pushed, to the limit; about endings. The way things vanish, sometimes forever. And how passion, resilience and love can create the possibility of a future.”
Following two successful years, Happiness is on tour in 2012:
15-16 October East Bank Centre, Shepparton
18-19 October Hothouse Theatre, Wodonga
22-23 October Colac Otways Performing Arts Centre
25-26 October Frankston Arts Centre
1-2 November Drum Theatre, Dandenong
To book your place in Happiness, contact the venue listed above for more information or email education@malthousetheatre.com.au
The 2012 Happiness tour is proudly supported by VISY.
TAME
Now it’s eaten the family dog…. Will apathy, disorganisation or their new visitor (a polar bear) ever allow this family to leave the house again?
Written by Declan Greene (Moth and Pompeii, L.A.) and directed by Kate Sulan (Rawcus), Tame is an episodic work exploring one family’s increasingly entangling predicament. Tame uses a variety of theatrical forms and conventions to humorously and poignantly explore our behavioural response to what David Suzuki describes as a ‘slow motion catastrophe’; climate change.
Malthouse Theatre presents
TAME
By Declan Greene
Directed by Kate Sulan
Design by Marg Horwell
Tower Theatre at The Malthouse, 5 – 17 November
To book your schools’ place in Tame, complete a Schools Booking Form.
Tame is commissioned by Malthouse Theatre with the generous assistance of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.
