Midnite Youth Theatre Company

The Midnite Youth Theatre Company is a youth theatre company based in Perth, Western Australia. It was founded in 1987 by Antony Howes, Sir Peter Gadsden and the then-Headmaster of Perth's Christ Church Grammar School, AJ de V Hill. Consequently the theatre company operates out of Christ Church Grammar School.

International tours

In 1988 the Midnite Youth Theatre Company toured the United Kingdom as a celebration of Australia's Bicentenary, with a musical version of Randolph Stow's Midnite, adapted by Richard Tulloch and with music by John Bates. Since 1988 the Midnite Youth Theatre Company has mounted an international tour almost every two years, including musicals such as "The Song of the Seals"The Rose and the Ring and straight dramas such as "Dead White Males"The Trial of Thomas Cranmer.

Notable members

Members of the Midnite Youth Theatre Company who have gone on to make a mark beyond youth theatre include Tim Minchin [1], Emma Pearson, Stuart Halusz and Rebecca Davis.

Guest actors

Notable guest actors who have worked with the Midnite Youth Theatre Company include Jill Perryman, Jenny Davis, Tedd Bull, Michael Loney and Caroline McKenzie.

List of seasons

Italics represent an international tour season.

1987 Midnite Charley's Aunt 1988 Midnite The Yeomen of the Guard A Likeable Rogue A Phoenix Too Frequent The Car 1989 Pippin Amadeus The Rape of the Bell The Incredible Mind-Blowing Trial of Jack Smith 1990 The Birds[disambiguation needed ] A Midsummer Night's Dream Boots An' All 1991 The Ghost Train On the Razzle Friends But Not Neighbours Mask and Murder Kerry's Baby The Real Inspector Hound Unto Us A Son Is Born 1992 The Wind In the Willows The Fantasticks Space Demons An Absurd Evening Play of the Periphery 1993 The Business of the Good Government Habeas Corpus Cook's Choices When the Pea Drops Andorra En Masse Loot Ernie's Incredible Illucinations Sir Gawain & the Green Knight A Midsummer Night's Dream 1994 Memories of War The Play of the Royal Astronomer The Birds[disambiguation needed ] Riverside Australian Stories Love's Labour's Lost Man of Steel 1995 Song of the Seals Friends But Not Neighbours Oh Godot Popular Mechanicals Illumination Mother Courage Murder in the Cathedral Guy's Revolt 1996 The Queen & The Rebels Racing Demon Man of La Mancha An Alien Stole My Skateboard 1997 Rosie Fishman Bequest of a Nation The Interrogation The Crash of 1937 The Chicken Run 1998 Dead White Males Urbs Urbis Midnite The Baker's Boy What If She Doesn't Know Us? Mort The Royal Hunt of the Sun

1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Bill and Ted's Incredible Adventure Black Comedy The Cat and the Canary Passion The Commitment 2000 Passion Faust Forward Rehearsal for Murder Blue Remembered Hills An American Dream Shakespeare Walk One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest It's Absurd Mr Madin Oh What a Lovely War 2001 Fortinbras Forty Years On A Walk on the Wilde Side Nativity Pirates of Penzance The Witches 2002 As Ships Pass By Creation Morality Meander Robin Hood Aspects of Love After Magritte The Real Inspector Hound 2003 Roses of Eyam Greek Stories Journey's End The Mikado Space Demons Kes 2004 The Rose and the Ring 12 Angry Men The Club At His Excellency's Pleasure The Madness of George III River Dreaming The Jungle Play 2005 Clockwork Merton of the Movies Good Morning Mr Magpie How to Disappear Completely Ruddigore Premiere Lord of the Flies 2006 The Trial of Thomas Cranmer To Kill a Mockingbird Year 10 Up Late The Canterbury Tales A Bad Time for Songs 2007 A Christmas Carol Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat A Touch of Anzac Troilus and Cressida Roach Motels of Heaven and Hell The Outsiders 2008 The Premiere Coram Boy 2009 The Ghost Train Pygmalion West Side Story The History Boys

External links

• The West Australian: Twenty Years Round Midnite
• Perth Now: Favourite Son
• Midnite Youth Theatre Company