THE PAPER TALE 2010

POLLYANNA 2012


Photos by Tony Bonney, Alethea Bevilaqua and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger

Pollyanna was created by the cast and crew

Directors - Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd and Tim Watts
Producer - Weeping Spoon Productions
Designers - Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and Alissa Jane Claessens
Art Department - Tim Yuen, Briony Stewart, Felicity Groom, Adriane Daff
Gadgets - Anthony Watts
Catering - Julie Watts

Performers/Devisers
Debbie (Friend)- Whitney Richards
Jade (Friend) - Arielle Gray
Reeves (Staff)- Natalie Holmwood
Gloria Dobson (Staff)- Sarah Reuben
Sgt. Ira Brillstein (Good Cop)- Stacy Gougoulis
Cpt. Jessica Jessup (Bad Cop) - Fran Middleton
Agent 1 (Spy) - Gita Bezard
Agent 2 (Spy) - Lawrence Ashford
Commissioner Gareth Walker - Nathan Tetlaw
Mayor Arthur Dobson - Brendan Ewing
Todd Dobson (Boyfriend)- Jeffrey Jay Fowler
Travis (Barman) - Chris Isaacs
Tracy (Barlady)/Prison Guard - Zoe Cooper
Julie Smith (Polly’s Mum) - Julie Watts
Anthony Smith (Polly’s Dad) - Anthony Watts
Pollyanna Smith - Adriane Daff
Big Harry/DJ - Tim Watts

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH ERTH 2011







This professional development was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

LET'S COME TOGETHER AND MAKE FREEDOM 2011

Forty young refugees from Aranmore's Intensive English Centre made a giant foosball table that was exhibited at the Free From Fear Art Exhibition during National Refugee Week. To create the foosball table the young people attended an all-day drama workshop with theatre artist Anne Sorrenson and ten weekly workshops with visual artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger.

Propel Youth Arts WA hosted the Free From Fear Art Exhibition as part of Refugee Week 2011 Australian-wide celebrations. The exhibition was held at the Central Park Foyer in June. Sponsored by the Department for Communities’ Office for Youth and supported by Save the Children, Central Park, Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message and YMCA, the exhibition explored freedom and children’s rights as defined by young people with refugee backgrounds.

The Let's Come Together And Make Freedom foosball table also went on to be exhibited at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Forum.

GUGGENHEIM WORKSHOPS FOR ART GALLERY OF WA 2010

AUSTRALIA COUNCIL KIRK ROBSON AWARD FOR THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF YOUNG AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES 2010

"HOME" FOR DRUG AWARE YOUTH ARTS UNEARTHED 2010

ON THE EDGE CHINA 2010

MAMU 2010