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It's back! TYCs Summer Drama Program now in its 9th Year. Designed, Created and

delivered by our qualified drama educators and professional theatre practioners.

Check our website www.theyoungcompany.com.au/summer

to read more about them.

Participating in TYCs action packed Summer Drama Programs are lots of fun and sees participants make lots of new friends while also developing their acting

techniques, self-confidence, problem solving abilities, communication and presentation skills, as well as their

fostering their individual creativity and performance resume.

Children and Young People from across the region

can decide to either select:

4-day Drama School Programs (recommended ages 5yrs – 12yrs)

5-day Scripted Programs

(recommended ages 11yrs – 18yrs)

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4-DAY DRAMA SCHOOL PROGRAM OUTLINE

During our 4-Day Drama School program students develop the essentials of stage performance through improvisation, role-play and characterization activities.

Participants then perform in front of their parents and friends with costumes, sets, props, sound effects, live projections and

theatrical lighting!!

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ISLAND OF LOST STORIES: THE SEARCH IS ON FOR HAPPILY EVER AFTER WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) Batten down the hatches! Buccaneers and the Jolly Roger have been sighted! It can only mean one thing… pirates! Long John Silver and his pirate friends have stolen all of the world’s Happily Ever Afters! We don’t know how they did it (possibly with some help from Capricorn!) – but they have! Do you remember all your favourite stories…The Wizard of Oz, Rupunzel, Treasure Island, Snow White, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland…well they are all Gone! Gone! Gonnnne! Disapeared! Vanished! No one can find the stories! Children across the world have no recollection of them! Nothing! Obsolete! Pinocchio and Princess Fiona have teamed up with Willy Wonka and Pippi Longstocking and are on the search! Nancy Drew has come to the rescue as she has located a mysterious treasure map that may hold the key to the location. If you love a good voyage, we need you! So, grab your magnify glass, your adventure kit and your navigating compass and we will help with the rest! Dates: Tues 11 Dec – Fri 14 Dec 2018 Age: 5yrs – 12yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Fri 14 Dec, 5pm Venue: TYC Adventure Theatre, 169 Bunda St, Cairns City To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $270 Full Price

$250 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $240 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A CRACKER OF A XMAS: UNLOCK THE REALMS WITH THE CHRISTMAS SUGAR PLUMS WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) + YASMIN LANCINI (MUSICAL THEATRE) It’s Christmas Eve and the biggest party of the year is about to start with lots of food, drinks and presents galore…and you are invited!! Clara, her brother Fritz and their friends are ready to munch into the Christmas Season….that is until the quarrelsome siblings and their friends find themselves lost in a parallel world unable to find their way home! Join Clara, her brother Fritz and their friends as they journey to the Land of Flowers, Land of Snowflakes and Land of Sweets and meet some surprising characters along the way such as a seven headed Mouse King, a Tin Soldier and his infantry, Dancing Dolls, the Nutcracker and the Sugar Plum Fairies, the Snow Queen and many more! But to get home they must pass the evil tyrant Mother Ginger! Can you help them find a way to get back home in time for Christmas morning and defeat Mother Ginger? Dates: Tues 18 Dec – Fri 21 Dec 2018 Age: 5yrs – 12yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Fri 21 Dec, 5pm Venue: TYC Adventure Theatre, 169 Bunda St, Cairns City To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $270 Full Price

$250 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $240 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

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FANTASTIC TREATS AND WHERE TO HIDE THEM: WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) Attention to all witches, wizards and magizoologists! We need your help to round up all of the missing magical creatures and save the day! The year is 1926, and Nifflers to Murtlaps, Occamys and Thunderbirds are being hunted by dark wizards to keep as pets! Word has it that Newt Scamander and his friends have just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident, were it not for a No-Maj, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds. Not to mention ‘The Beasts and Animal Welfare Wizards (BAWW)’ are hot on his heels to find the missing fantastic beasts and place them in safe places before they are captured by the dark evil wizards. However, these beasts have a mind of their own and are a challenge to even get a glimpse at! Whether you are HIDING them, or SEEKING them, you have your work cut out for you! Are you ready to save the remaining species of these fine creatures? Come along for a magical journey and join the wizarding world as we save creatures, meet fellow witches and wizards and most importantly, explore all things magic! Dates: Tues 8 Jan – Fri 11 Jan 2019 Age: 5yrs – 12yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Fri 11 Jan, 5pm Venue: TYC Adventure Theatre, 169 Bunda St, Cairns City To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $270 Full Price

$250 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $240 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARVEL MANIA: WITH A CLICK OF THE FINGER WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) Bam! Pow! Crack! Do you seek the thrill of adventure and excitement? Since Thanos ‘snap of the finger’ wiped out half of all life in the universe with a single click it is now up to a new breed of Super Heroes to fight for what is right! These holidays we are recruiting the best of the best to fight for the safety of Planet Earth before Thanos comes back for more. Choose your superhero identity, your special unique superpower and your very own superhero costume in this weeks’ action-packed holiday program as we fast track you through Marvel Hero Academy! Will justice prevail or will Thanos and the bad guys finally take over forever! Excelsior! Get your spidey-senses tingling and prepare to save humanity with Marvel Mania these school holidays! Dates: Tues 15 Jan – Fri 18 Jan 2019 Age: 5yrs – 12yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Fri 18 Jan, 5pm Venue: TYC Adventure Theatre, 169 Bunda St, Cairns City To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $270 Full Price

$250 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $240 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

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A SPOONFUL OF WONDER: THE SPLENDID HOLIDAY ADVENTURE WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) Grab your chimney sweep, your pavement chalk and a spoonful of wonder as we go on a Jolly Holiday with Mary Poppins and our favourite characters from Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane. But make sure you step in time for the garden party under the sea, a visit to the man on the moon, the annual horse racing banquet and mythical figures descending from the heavens. But do take care as Miss Andrew’s is hot on your heels with Mr Banks who has notified the police that there has been a kidnapping at Cherry Tree Lane! Join us at TYC as we travel across the seas, towards the planets and straight on till morning! Nothing to be said other than Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Dates: Mon 21 Jan – Thurs 24 Jan 2019 Age: 5yrs – 12yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Thurs 24 Jan, 5pm Venue: TYC Adventure Theatre, 169 Bunda St, Cairns City To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $270 Full Price

$250 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $240 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

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5-DAY SCRIPTED DRAMA SCHOOL PROGRAM

Build on your performance skills through our extended courses while applying vocabulary and technique to scripted material. Delve

deep into next level acting skills as you learn to analyze text for objectives, stakes,

obstacles, tactics and playable actions, all while working towards performing a scripted

show at the end of the week!

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HUMBUG HIGH: WHERE HEARTS ARE KEPT ICE COLD WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) Come along for a wonderful awesome-tastic show with an interesting take on the classic Christmas tale we all know and love! Eddie Scrooge is 17 years old, a cynical young man who despises everything in sight. His only goal in life is to make money and keep his heart ice-cold. He carries his own low temperature always about him and doesn't thaw one degree at Christmas. He is on his way to becoming a miserly, miserable, tight-fisted hand to the grindstone, until one Christmas season he is taken on a journey by Madge, the lunch lady, and the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future. Scrooge is about to meet the errors of his ways face-to-face. Do you think you could warm even the coldest of hearts? Join us for a fun filled week to get you in the Christmas spirit! Dates: Mon 10 Dec – Fri 14 Dec 2018 Age: 11yrs – 18yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Sat 15 Dec, 6pm (venue call time 5pm) Venue: TBC To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $390 Full Price

$370 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $360 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHRISTMAS IS FOREVER: AGENT JANE BLOND & THE MI6 TO THE RESCUE WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) AND YASMIN LANCINI (MUSICAL THEATRE) It’s Musicals Galore at TYC this Summer! Join Jane Blonde, double 'O' PS (OOPS!), licensed to do whatever, goes to rescue Father Christmas from the clutches of the evil Scarymonger. His cunning plan is to flood the Christmas scene with counterfeit Santas who are SO nasty that nobody will ever want Christmas again. All this because Scarymonger did not get presents when he was a little boy... but then he was a very naughty little boy! Christmas Is Forever is an exciting production with a James Bond connection - expect all your old favourite 007 type characters! The story line combined with some truly inspirational songs with touches of Madness and the Bee Gees, makes it one for the Christmas this this Summer! Dates: Mon 17 Dec – Fri 21 Dec 2018 Age: 11yrs – 18yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Sat 22 Dec, 6pm (venue call time 5pm) Venue: TBC To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $390 Full Price

$370 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $360 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount

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REBOOT – I – LIZATION: SAVE THE WORLD FROM STORY OBLITERATION WITH SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST HAYLEY GILLESPIE (COSTUME DESIGN) Join us at TYC in the new year for a scripted production that is set to get the adrenaline in overdrive! Stories all over the world are under attack. Pages are going blank in a pandemic so big, the government’s involved.! That’s where SynCryn comes in. Not an ordinary lab, SynCryn has the original narrative DNA for every story on ice and a plan to save the world from story obliteration. It’s an easy rebootilization process... so long as there aren’t any glitches in the software, or the director doesn’t go crazy, or the stories thaw out too quickly, or pirates get loose. If none of those things happen, it’s foolproof. Dates: Mon 21 Jan – Fri 25 Jan 2018 Age: 11yrs – 18yrs Times: 9am - 3pm Showcase: Fri 25 Jan, 5pm – 615pm Venue: TBC To Book: Visit www.theyoungcompany.com.au Cost: $390 Full Price

$370 Early Bird - Book 2 weeks before course date to receive early bird $360 Sibling Discount *TYC Term-Based Students: 5% Discount