Based on Queensland's Sunshine Coast we specialise in professional actors performing for young audiences. Our aim is to inspire wonder and awaken the imagination in young people.
Stark Raven Mad is a fast-paced, interactive poetry show for kids.
It is dark and funny, but also delightful and a bit absurd. It takes the audience through a poetical journey bringing to life gothic poems using puppets, costumes, movement, and music.
📅 Sunday 4 August 10am & 1pm
📍 On the Boards Theatre, 1/433 Wondall Road, Tingalpa QLD 4173
✨ Over 30 poems performed
✨ Edgar Allan Poe, Heinrich Hoffman, Hilaire Belloc, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and many more
✨ Suitable for people 6 and up or guardian discretion
Stark Raven Mad is a fast-paced, interactive poetry show for kids.
It is dark and funny, but also delightful and a bit absurd. It takes the audience through a poetical journey bringing to life gothic poems using puppets, costumes, movement, and music.
📅 Sunday 11 August 10am
📍 Eudlo Hall, 19 Rosebed Street, Eudlo QLD 4554
✨ Over 30 poems performed
✨ Edgar Allan Poe, Heinrich Hoffman, Hilaire Belloc, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and many more
✨ Suitable for people 6 and up or guardian discretion
Devising and Playwriting (ages 8 to 12)
In this two-day workshop, we will collectively devise and write a new script. At the end of day two we will share our work with a table reading open to parents and friends.
📅 Monday 23 September & Tuesday 24 September 9am to 1pm
Mask Making (ages 6 to 10)
In this crafty workshop, we will learn the rules of mask theatre, while creating a character from the mask we build ourselves!
📅 Thursday 26 September 9:30am to 12:30pm
A Play in a Day: Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends (ages 7 to12)
In this full day workshop, we will stage an entire play to be performed for our family and friends at the end of the day.
📅 Friday 27 September 9:30am to 3:30pm
📍 Peregian Beach Community House
✨ Small Class Size
✨ Safe Learning Environment
✨ Accredited Teaching Artists
The Party is a whimsical introduction to the world of theatre. This show has gentle and playful interactions with multiple sensory elements, props and puppets. Come join the animals to get ready for the party!
📅 November 2024
📍 Venues across the Sunshine Coast
✨ Suitable for people 5 and under
✨ Interactive and fun
✨ Running time 40 minutes
👉 This project is supported by The Regional Arts Development Fund - a partnership between the Queensland Government and Noosa Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Stark Raven Mad is a fast-paced, interactive poetry show where over 30 poems are performed.
It is dark and funny, but also delightful and a bit absurd. It takes the audience through a poetical journey bringing to life gothic poems using puppets, costumes, movement, and music.
Perfect for Year 2 to Year 6
Alice Beaver Clapham grew up in Tennessee, USA. She received her BA in Theatre Arts at Rollins College, Florida and her MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences at Arizona State University, Arizona. She studied acting at RADA in London and at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC. Alice has worked professionally as a performer, playwright, director, and arts educator for the past 20 years in the USA (Childsplay) Honduras (teatro la fragua) Hong Kong (Faust, HKYAF, AFTEC, S4A) and Singapore (Faust). She has worked and studied with renowned community-based theatres Cornerstone Theater in Los Angeles and Sojourn Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Alice is also an accomplished voice actor working for companies such as Disney, Cartoon Network, Animax, and V-Tech. In Australia, Alice has collaborated with D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective and Perseverance Street Theatre.
Mary Eggleston is an actor, performance & instillation artist, a writer, and producer of performing and visual arts. She’s a keen collaborator and has worked in Australia and abroad since 1997. She trained in physical theatre with Zen Zen Zo and then went on to study mime and movement theatre at dieEtage in Berlin. Mary has toured extensively with Artslink and QLD Music Festival’s Youth Touring. She was selected to be part of the 2020 PlayLab mentorship under the guidance of Maxine Mellor and she’s currently writing collaboratively on a new work for theatre with Dr Nycole Prowse. Mary has worked as external producer for Project 24 – a council funded arts residency program at 2nd Space in Nambour. In 2023 Mary performed with Sunshine Coast based theatre companies, Catbird Theatre and DIVE Theatre Collective.
Mia Hollingworth is an Australian educator and performance artist based on the Sunshine Coast, Kabi Kabi country. A dance graduate of the Victorian College of Arts in 1996, her career as a contemporary dancer for live and film work has seen her collaborate and tour with some of Melbourne’s leading experimental contemporary companies and choreographers from 1997-2009. Since moving to Queensland in 2018, Hollingworth has collaborated, performed and produced contemporary dance and theatre projects with and for the community of the Sunshine Coast. Hollingworth is committed to dance advocacy through contributing to conversations and promoting Creativity in Education.
Land Acknowledgment
In the spirit of reconciliation Catbird Theatre acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.