In a world of stress and decision fatigue wouldn’t you like an app that can formulate the best path forward for your success? Two kids come across a dangerously foreboding curiosity shop and are offered a mysterious fortune teller arcade game turned app that does just that - as long as they choose to follow the Path. In a world of exhaustion and endless choices - would you trade autonomy for ease? Is that really so bad?
Read MoreThe Protect Disaster tackles the dangers of ignorance, greed and pride when approaching a Brave New World of technology and how easily we can become reliant on it. This play demonstrates the danger of integrating new technology into our society without the appropriate amount of diligence and responsibility.
Read MoreThe game is afoot when a wacky town is given the chance at a massive horticultural prize just before flowers from their beloved Garden start mysteriously dying. These floral casualties cause comedic chaos as we see how trading trust for the security of Camera Surveillance can drive a wedge within the community.
Read MoreIn “The Town that Disappeared” a group of archeologists and environmentalists are employed to test and excavate the land by an Artifacts Dealer and Developer from the ProTech company. However, as they begin they find that the area is a haunted graveyard for a forgotten town - a town once inhabited by the ancestors of their guide who is then thrown back in time into their story as a warning to the present day.
Read MoreThe Artifice is a story born from the tensions between ambition, insecurity, and the rigid structures of education. At its heart is a principal—extremely driven but deeply insecure—who embarks on a mission to create a perfect system, one that forces students to conform to an idealized version of success. The principal’s drive to innovate, to push boundaries, stems from a desperate need to be recognized as a visionary, yet their insecurities lead them to impose a one-size-fits-all solution.
Read More"Deactivated" explores the themes of greed versus hope and the impact of technology on a traditional society. At its core, the play examines how the allure of technological advancement can both promise liberation and breed disillusionment. The central conflict arises from the villagers' hope for a better life clashing with the potentially exploitative nature of new technologies. This tension is embodied in the characters and the AI automatons, which symbolize both the promise of progress and the pitfalls of unchecked ambition.
Read MoreCedar Grove is a small town that finds itself in the midst of an unfolding tragedy. Young people keep going missing and there is no sign of where they are. We pick up the pieces with a journalist from the local news station as she tries to put the pieces together. With every interview she gets closer and closer to unraveling the mystery. But only one person can release the people from Wonderland and it is up to them to awaken the characters trapped and bring them back up to Cedar Grove.
Read MoreThis original work has been inspired by the colourful stories and characters of “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice through the Looking Glass.” It takes the fantastical characters of Wonderland and blends them into a new genre – that of the murder mystery. This work has been created alongside the young people who perform for you today. Therefore, you are not simply watching a group of talented young performers but a group of storytellers with skills that transcend the performance of the play itself.
Read MoreIn this sequel to “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice realises that she is travelling through an inverted world. She recognises that the verses on the pages of the books are written in mirror writing, holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of the Jabberwocky. She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land that she has passed into which is later revealed as a dreamscape.
Read MoreThe plays feature princesses who would like to be warriors, pacifist pirates, greedy kings, evil wizards, and a fairy too kind for her own good to name but a few. Goat Track Theatre worked with 120 teenage performers across Scenic Rim and the Gold Coast to create a Children’s Theatre Festival called ‘The Story Box.’ Created with primary school aged children in mind, the festival will feature 26 original works for children that will be performed at Goat Track Theatre’s Black Box Theatre on Tamborine Mountain.
Read MoreWhen Paige arrives at Lockhart Girls School, she is struck with the feeling that things are not quite right. Despite, its reputation for being the best finishing school in the Central Highlands, she can’t help but notice that the students and the staff behave in the most peculiar way. When she befriends one of the other students, Annie, her worst suspicions are surpassed. She suddenly realises that she is not in fact a student but a prisoner and she is soon to be turned into a product of ‘The School’.
Read MoreThe Hurst Family Tannery has sat proudly down by the river for more than a hundred years but when Thomas Hurst dies, the business is left to his daughter, Ivy. The town of Braham is sceptical of the ‘out-of-towner’ with her new processes and her new chemicals but she quickly turns the ailing tannery around doubling both the company’s output and the wages of those who work there. Ivy garners the support of the whole town almost overnight. But when a mysterious disease starts to spread throughout the community, tensions begin to boil over, leading Ivy to consider a decision between people and profit.
Read MoreWhen his great Aunt Mia passes away, Nathaniel Pemberton, inherits Pemberton Manor, the most impressive mansion in all of Braham. He plans to move into this new accommodation with his family, however things don’t go to plan and the people who arrive in Braham are not the Pembertons but imposters who will stop at nothing to keep their true identities a secret.
Read MoreAlbert, the young master of Pemberton Manor is spoilt, sadistic and self-indulged. In his laziness, he wishes that he could swap lives with one of the good for nothing servants who he refers to only as Girl. Girl, lives the life of an unappreciated, exploited and oppressed servant, beset on all sides by her tyrannical masters and even her fellow servants. She also wishes that she could Switch. When, a magical vagabond mysteriously arrives, in the little town of Braham, both of their wishes are granted. But switching bodies, is not at all what either of them expected it would be. In fact, it’s only just the beginning of this dark and mysterious tale.
Read MoreWhen a young woman arrives in the village of Braham, she quickly finds herself shunned by the community and asked to leave. When she refuses to go, the prejudice of the town leads them headlong into a rising atmosphere of accusation, violence and recrimination.
Read MoreFive girls find themselves isolated in a forest glade in the middle of the night. All of them are strangers. All of them have had the same dream. A dream that involves them being chased through the forest by a pack of wolf like creatures, called Howlers. But tonight’s dream was different. Somehow, they’ve been plucked from their beds and into this dark forest and the only way out is to confront their own darkness. Throughout the night, they share their stories with one another in order to understand how they’ve all found themselves together and more importantly how they might find a way back out of the darkness.
Read MoreIN 2019, 100 young people came together with Goat Track Theatre to explore concepts pertaining to online addiction. This creative development process led them towards a discussion of how young people’s lives are ‘stolen’ away by technology. This then led them to a creative connection between the modern world of lost children and the mythical world of the Changeling myths of Europe where children were stolen by elves.
Read MoreWelcome to the Golden Age of Hamelin. The Cheezey Wheezey Cheese factory is going from strength to strength, the dairy is in overdrive and the people are enjoying the spoils of a meteoric rise in the standard of living. The village is heading to the polls and Hamelin’s leading light, Mr Mayor is coasting towards an unimpeded victory at the next election. That is until …. the rats arrive.
Read MoreJared is irresponsible, reckless and always in a hurry. And he’s just been given a turbo-charged Commodore for his twentieth birthday. His sister, by contrast, is the local school captain who has just finished year 12 with flying colours. The two of them have next to nothing in common until their father asks Jared to pick up Simone from the after-party of the school formal.
Read MoreIt can be hard for young people to get the balance right in the midst of what sometimes appear to be contradictory messages about risk taking. On the one hand, young people are becoming more and more risk averse and on the other they are exhibiting increasing amounts of negative high-risk behaviours.
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