Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre
All plays are available for fair use.
For Performance Rights, contact Suzanne Spunner
SPILT MILk
1991
Dramaturg and co-writer for a play about the impact of the AIDS epidemic on NT young people.
Commissioned by NT Health Dept. NT tour.
RADIO FOR HELP
1992
Director, Maggie Miles & Suzanne Spunner .
A youth theatre play for four girls and four boys. Created from soliciting letters from young people all over the NT, particularly Indigenous kids from remote areas, about their problems and requesting drawings of their place from the air. The Agony Aunt was a lost 1930s flyer Miss Trix. The play was conceived as a tribute to both the pioneer aviatrixes and the recently superseded VJY Outpost Radio Service.
First performed in the Old Qantas Hangar, Parap in 1992, then adapted for radio, for ABC Darwin in 1993.
Commissioned by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre with a writing grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
Anna Lise Phillips as Miss Trix, the lost aviatrix in her Tiger Moth, ‘Radio for Help’
Aladdin
1993
In Darwin the classic pantomime was staged as a community celebration.
Suzanne Spunner and director, Maggie Miles on Darwin Harbour.
SILVER SEAFARERS 1997
A youth theatre play for six teenagers - three girls and three boys plus six adults - three men and three women. A site specific play created to be performed among the historic boat collection at the MAGNT in Darwin. The present day reality is a teenage crew competing in the annual Darwin to Ambon sailing race. On their voyage they encounter all manner of other sailors including historical figures and sea phenomena peculiar to Darwin Harbour and the Timor Sea.
Commissioned by Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre, the Saltwater People’s Festival and Sea Change.
Poster design: Daniel Hartney
The ‘Midjanga’ crew meet Pobasso, the Malay Captain on the way to Ambon.
Suzanne Spunner, The NT News, 1995
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS WEEKENDS
1993, 1995
Co-ordinator/Dramaturg of two weekend events held in Darwin, the first in 1993 focused on NT kids, and the second in 1995 focused on Indigenous youth from across the NT.
Funded and auspiced by the Australian National Playwrights Centre
Presented with assistance from Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre