Melbourne Work Experiance.

What's your age? Try the MTC, Vic Arts Centre, La Mama... smaller companies also offer work experience for high school and uni students: Arena Theatre Co, St Martin's, etc. It depends greatly on your age: above 18, forget it. Below 18, try the above places. Provide some more info and I can provide some more people to contact. EDIT: I remembered you asked about the Frankston youth groups. I suggest also contacting the Frankston arts centre, or your local community arts centres. Though I doubt they will offer work experience; you'll probably have to come more towards the inner city of Melbourne for it. I'm also guessing from your previous post that you're under 18, in which case I would suggest taking a look at venues and companies that offer work experience to students (as mentioned above, there are others but I can't think of them off the top of my head). If you've got a company in mind that you really would like to work with, I'd send them a formal letter expressing interest in doing work experience with them. You never know, they may do it. If this is part of a school requirement, then you can see if they have a list of previously used companies by other students. If it's not a school requirement, you will have great difficulty, because companies will need to pay for insurance while you are with them: schools/uni's often cover this, which is why it will be harder outside of a school environment. I would also suggest contacting 45downstairs - I have worked with them before, and they are extremely warm and welcoming. They have let me volunteer with them before as crew; once I did that, they hired me. ... I should mention: Any work experience will most likely not allow you to do lighting op or sound op, since these roles will be filled already. Most work experience placements allow you very limited hands-on opportunities (I don't know about MTC or VAC, but certainly the smaller venues/companies), more admin work with the opportunity to tag along and observe professionals doing what they do. That isn't to say that you won't be given any hands-on experience, but that it will be limited. Like I said, it depends.... Sticky Apple Legs www.freewebs.com/stickyapplelegs Puppets in Melbourne www.thepromptcopy.com/pip My puppets www.collectzing.com/collection/137/

That's what I thought. You may want to check out my list of theatre links, and find the section of VIC companies. I know that MTC and VAC are the hardest to get, as there's lots of competition for it. I did work experience (as a tech.) with Arena, and they were good - it depends on the time of year of course, I think I did mine during July, and they were only rehearsing a show, so no hands-on stuff was available, just admin work. However, they offered me paid work later on, so it all worked out. You might also want to consider contacting any people on the www.alia.com.au website, since they're all techies and venue managers, etc. They're very helpful too. http://www.thepromptcopy.com/pip/theatrelinks.htm Good luck with it! Sticky Apple Legs www.freewebs.com/stickyapplelegs Puppets in Melbourne www.thepromptcopy.com/pip My puppets www.collectzing.com/collection/137/

another place you could try would be the Regent theatre in melbourne. I know they are having Wicked show there in July, Wicked was really popular in the US

I believe the Regent is part of the Mariner Groups 6 theatre stable. Also try the the Victorian Opera workshops in Fitzroy!

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