SHACK
JUL. 2024
THEATRE
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
DIRECTED BY MADELEINE DIGGINS
WRITTEN BY GEORGE KEMP
Antarctica. A blizzard. Nine school kids are stranded in a shack, on the bottom of the world, with a sinister force circling outside…
Our young explorers, in the ghostly footsteps of Ernest Shackleton, question their place in the natural and social order of the world as the limits of their courage are pushed into uncharted waters.
A hypothermic flurry of comedy and thriller, Shack explores the territory between teen anxiety and teen invincibility. Young people are being called on to lead like never before, but how do they learn to step up, when sometimes just existing is hard enough?!
Shack by George Kemp (Winner of the 2020 Junior ATYP Foundation Commission) is back to explore the power of nature and the nature of power in this adventure story for the Greta Thunberg generation.
Zip up your warmest parka and be ready for anything…
Madeleine Diggins, Director.
Jessie Lancaster, Assistant Director.
Meg Anderson, Set & Costume Design.
Akesiu Poitaha, Sound Design.
Annika Bertinat, Production Manager.
Lee Johnston, Producer.
Hayley Armsworth, Stage Manager & Sound Operator.
Angus Kelman-Smith, Lighting Operator.
Photography by Noni Carrol & Meg Anderson.
Presented by Marian St Theatre for Young People.
CAST
This Production of SHACK has alternating casts
Aanya Arun, Ernie.
Annie Stanwell, Ernie.
Aditya Goyal, Jasper.
Evan O’Loughlin, Jasper.
Elijah Low, Mack.
Sofia Garofalo-Stock, Sadie.
Lucinda Henkel, Samson.
Tailtiu Keane, Samson.
Killara Turk, Luca.
Emmeline Zakon, Rufus.
Ash Burton, Elliot.
Kai Heath, Jamie.
Ryan Lyari, Ernest Shackleton
