NYE 1999, Darwin.
Artistic Support Materials
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, Y2K bug conspiracy theories have been splashed all over the NT News, your next door neighbour has been stocking up on canned food in their mouldy shed for months, and you’re invited to the event to end all events: The Nightcliff Scout Hall NYE soiree to party in the New Millenium.
This is an interactive, site-specific theatre experience to be remembered. Unlike that midnight pash in 1999.
The team.
Ciella Williams - creator/performer
Ciella is a Darwin-based playwright, dramaturg, performer and director.
She has run the ATYP Fresh Ink program for young NT playwrights since 2018, and is currently dramaturging COLLIDE, a new physical theatre work by Tania Lieman.
She was commissioned by Sydney-based collective New Ghosts to write a play for young women, Hush. It will be produced in 2021 in Sydney in July and Darwin in October and published online by Playlab.
She has performed for all major Top End performing arts companies, and has just directed Highway of Lost Hearts by Mary Anne Butler for Brown’s Mart Theatre.
Sarah Reuben - creator/performer
Sarah Reuben is a Darwin-based independent theatremaker, performer and producer. She graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts, Ohio and while in the states was a member of the Berkshire Theatre Festival Apprentice Company and performed in Pippin, Wind in the Willows, Willey and the Hairy Man, Say Something and The Book of Five Rings. In Australia, Reuben has performed in a national tour of The Hurting Game for Brainstorm Productions, The Musicians for ATYP, The Laramie Project for Black Swan State Theatre Company and How I Learned to Drive for Mockingbird Theatre Company. For her own Theatre Company, Ruby Gaytime Productions, she wrote four theatre shows: Best, Short Change, Death Party and This Jew Sits. Sarah co-created I’ll Tell you in Person, which had seasons at both Darwin Festival 2020 and Perth Festival 2021. And most recently, Sarah devised and performed in Lower The Bar for Sarah & Kyle Productions. Her improvisation credits include The Big HOO HAA!, Gladiators, Danger Hour, Cliffhanger and Impro Sketch.
Sarah is a story producer for SPUN, co-creator and performer with the nationally touring show Shania Choir, and is currently funded to write a new webseries for Ruby Gaytime Productions, Unchartered Territory. In 2020 Sarah Reuben was awarded the NT Literary Award for her new play, When The Clock Strikes Two.
Kyle Walmsley - creator/performer
Kyle is a director, performer and theatre maker having performed, directed and created work with companies around Australia including
Queensland Arts Council/ArtsLink, Darwin Community Arts, Brown's Mart Theatre, Darwin Festival, Polyglot, Canberra Youth Theatre, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus (where he was Associate Artist), and HotHouse Theatre (where he was Creative Learning Producer). Kyle has won Theatre awards for his devised and self performed works for Darwin and Newcastle Fringe Festivals. For the Starlight Children's Foundation Kyle worked as a performer clowning in hospitals around Australia as well as remote communities across the Northern Territory. Kyle was a national finalist in ABC's Raw Comedy Competition and state finalist in Green Faces Comedy Competition. Kyle is currently Drama Program Manager at Corrugated Iron Youth Arts. Kyle has trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the University of Southern Queensland.
Katy Moir - design collaborator
Katy received her Bachelor and Masters of Architecture from the University of Queensland and went on to spend four years working for Troppo Architects. Being immersed in Architecture for 12 years strongly influences the way that she views people's interactions with the worlds we have constructed. Working in the arts, more recently, has allowed Katy to completely rethink the way that Architecture manifests, question it's place in the world and what motivates it to occur.
Katy recently completed a Creative in Residence at the NT Archives with her project ‘A Hypothetical Darwin’ which began to transition the NT Archives from an inert keeping place, to an active place for stimulating discussion and communal dreaming. This research saw Katy present a series of exhibitions and most recently took herself, and the work, down to Alice Springs. It is her hope that the work contributes to a body of knowledge and will hopefully be a part of a cultural legacy for the Darwin, Alice Springs and NT community.
Previous work.
Lower the Bar by Kyle Walmsley and Sarah Reuben
Kyle and Sarah in Lower the Bar, 2020.
Reading of Ciella's play Hush in Sydney, 2019.
Sarah Reuben and Jeffrey J Fowler's work I'll Tell You In Person - Perth Festival 2021.
Kyle as Oyster Boy, co-devised work with Elizabeth Millington, 2020.
Sarah Reuben - I'll Tell You in Person, 2020.
Kyle Walmsley, In His Image, 2019.
Ciella in Turquoise Elephant by Stephen Carleton, 2018.
Katy Moir - residence at Tracks Dance 2021
Katy Moir - Shifting Realities at Darwin Festival 2019.
Katy Moir - Hypothetical Darwin Installation 2020.
Media and feedback.
“I really hope this theatre piece goes places as it was such a refreshing artistic experience.”
- Michaela Vaughan for The Music on I’ll Tell you In Person
“I’ll Tell You in Person is distinct and imaginative theatre”
- David Zampatti for seesaw
"I feel [Ciella] is one of the most exciting emerging writers in Australia”
- Fraser Corfield, Artistic Director ATYP
“The script is excellent – gritty, funny, poignant and surprising.”
- Emma Corrick, Critical Stages on Hush by Ciella Williams