Is theatre being taken over by youth?

Black Swan Theatre Company is proud to present it¡¯s inaugural Be Active BSX Theatre production, the West Australian premiere of Nick Enright¡¯s, SPURBOARD.

Directed by Michael Angus (From Black Swan's The Merry-Go-Round In the Sea & Plainsong) and performed by talented West Australians aged 16 ¨C 25, this play revolves around four rural teenagers in their final year at high school.

If home is a place you¡¯ve never been, how do you know where to find it? In Burradin, a town of broncs and brooding, four young people will step into an arena where lives will go on the line.

Eighteen-year-old Mitchell was born to buck. He rides the rodeo and sets his sights on the stardom of the National Finals ¨C and on Amy. But with a shotgun by his side, he has a crucial choice to make.

For his brother Greg, home is the sky. He can map the stars, even the dead ones. But with Mitchell riding him hard and Karen slipping away, Greg must decide whether mounting the spurboard is the best means of survival.

Karen knows where home isn¡¯t. With her parents fighting their own war, she makes a secret plan ¨C a bold plan that will take her to Mardi Gras, back and beyond.

For her apprentice hairdresser friend Amy, Mardi Gras doesn¡¯t quite fit and so she returns to complete the most gruelling ordeal possible: setting and perming her own mother¡¯s hair in her own mother¡¯s salon, Valda McBride¡¯s One Stop Beauty Salon.

Set against a backdrop of rural reinvention, urban urgency and family fracture SPURBOARD incites change and the courage to make it.

An exciting group of talented young West Australians have come together to bring you this vibrant and dynamic premiere production. Please join us as we show you a world where the country and city collide, where at the crossroads of our lives we see that destiny is what you make it.

Written by Nick Enright, Directed by Michael Angus, & Designed by Bryan Woltjen.

Featuring: Michelle Anstey, Nick Candy, Brodie Caporn, Amanda Cross, Penny Harrold, Warren Herbu, Kate Jenkinson, Matt Lutton, Shannon Mitchell, Simon Nichols, Carla Nirella, Tai O¡¯Reilly, Jana Sardelic, Raya Slavin, David Smith & Dickson Ybanez.

27 September ¨C 30th September & 2nd October to 7th October @ 8pm, Sundays @ 7pm.

Camelot Theatre, Mosman Park Memorial Hall, 16 Lochee Street

Bookings essential @ BOCS 9484 1133

$18 Full, $15 Concession, $10 BSX Members