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About Me

Platform Youth Theatre is a multi award winning company that makes cutting edge new Australian theatre for young people by young people.We work in partnership with some of the best professional theatre workers in the country to give young people a voice and allow their joys, concerns and opinions to be heard.Platform runs workshops in writing, performance, directing, acting and the technical aspects of theatre, mentorship programs, and produces theatre that keeps people talking.

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My Interests

Northcote Time

I'd like to meet:

Anybody and everybody interested in theatre and performing arts ESPECIALLY people aged between 16-26 yrs in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

To jump on the Platform visit
www.pyt.org.au or email: [email protected]

Music:

Lover, Fighter, Wild Bull Rider by David Grace,
Ascultation of the Heart by J.B.Barlow featuring recordings of regular and irregular heartbeats, explanations of why they sound different and nifty wave diagrams of each example,
A Varied Program of Stereo Dynamics to Scare the Hell Out of Your Neighbors

Movies:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (DVD release inc. "Pinky Caruthers' Unknown Facts" extras),
The Vidiot from UHF,
anything by Ken Russell but especially Lair of the White Worm and Salome's Last Dance

Television:

will devour your brain and bring decay and destitution upon your soul. It should be treated with utter contempt or extreme and absolute caution.

Books:

Knitting With Dog Hair: Better A Sweater From A Dog You Know and Love Than From A Sheep You'll Never Meet by Kendall Crolius,
Well Blow Me Down: A Guys Guide to Talking Like a Pirate by John Baur and Mark Summers,
The Barbed Wire Collector Magazine (the fun-filled bimonthly publication from the Antique Barbed Wire Society).

Heroes:

are for zeros

My Blog

Platform Youth Theatres February 2008 E-Bulletin

Platform Youth Theatre's February 2008 E-Bulletin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Acting Up, Speaking Out & Packing Your Lunch Platform Youth Theatre Melbourne's mo...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:12:00 PST

Platform Youth Theatres January 2008 E-Bulletin

Platform Youth Theatre's January 2008 E-Bulletin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Acting Up, Speaking Out & Getting Tanned Platform Youth Theatre Melbourne's most ex...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:41:00 PST

Platform Youth Theatres December 2007 E-Bulletin

Platform Youth Theatre's December 2007 E-Bulletin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Acting Up, Speaking Out & Making Like A RobotPlatform Youth Theatre Melbourne's most excl...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:11:00 PST

FOR PLATFORM MEMBERS: Win FREE DVD for Paris Je Taime

MADMAN FILMS: One free DVD of PARIS JE T'AIME Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. A stunning line-up of internationally r...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:32:00 PST

Platform Youth Theatres November 2007 E-Bulletin

Platform Youth Theatre's November 2007 E-Bulletin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Acting Up, Speaking Out & Dancing All Night to Bad KaraokePlatform Youth Theatre Melbourn...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:40:00 PST

APPLICATIONS OPEN: 2008 PLATFORM THEATRE DESIGN TRAINEESHIPS

WHAT ARE THE 2008 PLATFORM THEATRE DESIGN TRAINEESHIPS??The 2008 Platform Design Traineeships will allow three young people aged 16 to 26 to each undertake a six to eight-week Traineeship with a profe...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:26:00 PST

Freebies for members! ’Noise’

Graham McGahan is a cop-almost by default he thinks. Self-centred, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, a few days before Christmas he is sent by his boss to man a police van in a suburban sh...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:17:00 PST

Platform Youth Theatres October 2007 E-Bulletin

Platform Youth Theatre's October 2007 E-Bulletin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Acting Up, Speaking Out & Shaking Your Booty Platform Youth Theatre Melbourne's most ...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:47:00 PST

Auditions round two: The Innocents, Mon 22/10

AUDITIONS FOR THE INNOCENTS Original script Production on in February/March 2008 Rehearsals beginning November 2007 All skill levels welcome! This is the second round of aud...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:48:00 PST

FREEBIES FOR MEMBERS: DVD giveaway The Science of Sleep

While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of Stéphane TV, expounding on The Science of Sleep in front of cardboard cameras. In real life, he has a boring job at a Parisian calendar publisher and pi...
Posted by Platform Youth Theatre on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:25:00 PST