Midnite Youth Theatre Company
The Midnite Youth Theatre Company is a youth theatre company based in Perth, Western Australia. It was founded in 1987 by Antony Howes, Sir Peter Gadsden and the then-Headmaster of Perth's Christ Church Grammar School, AJ de V Hill. Consequently the theatre company operates out of Christ Church Grammar School.
International Tours
In 1988 the Midnite Youth Theatre Company toured the United Kingdom as a celebration of Australia's Bicentenary, with a MusicAL version of Randolph Stow's Midnite, adapted by Richard Tulloch and with music by John Bates. Since 1988 the Midnite Youth Theatre Company has mounted an international tour almost every two years, including musicals such as The Rose and the Ring and straight dramas such as The Trial of Thomas Cranmer.
Notable Members
Members of the Midnite Youth Theatre Company who have gone on to make a mark beyond youth theatre include Tim Minchin 1, Emma Pearson, Stuart Halusz and Rebecca Davis.
Notable Guest Actors
Guest actors who have worked with the Midnite Youth Theatre Company include Jill Perryman, Jenny Davis and Tedd Bull.
List of Seasons
Italics represent an international tour season. 1987
- Midnite
- Charley's Aunt
1988
- Midnite
- The Yeomen of the Guard
- A Likeable Rogue
- A Phoenix Too Frequent
- The Car
1989
- Pippin
- Amadeus
- The [...] of the Bell
- The INCredible Mind-Blowing Trial of Jack Smith
1990
- The Birds
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Boots An' All
1991
- The Ghost Train
- On the Razzle
- Friends But Not Neighbours
- Mask and [...]
- Kerry's Baby
- The Real Inspector Hound
- Unto Us A Son Is Born
1992
- The Wind In the Willows
- The Fantasticks
- Space Demons
- An Absurd Evening
- Play of the Periphery
1993
- The Business of the Good Government
- Habeas Corpus
- Cook's Choices
- When the Pea Drops
- Andorra
- En Masse
- Loot
- Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
- Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
1994
- Memories of War
- The Play of the Royal Astronomer
- The Birds
- Riverside
- Australian Stories
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Man of Steel
1995
- Song of the Seals
- Friends But Not Neighbours
- Oh Godot
- Popular Mechanicals
- Illumination
- Mother Courage
- [...] in the Cathedral
- Guy's Revolt
1996
- The Queen & The Rebels
- Racing Demon
- Man of La Mancha
- An Alien Stole My Skateboard
1997
- Rosie Fishman
- Bequest of a Nation
- The Interrogation
- The crash of 1937
- The Chicken Run
1998
- Dead White Males
- Urbs Urbis
- Midnite
- The Baker's Boy
- What If She Doesn't Know Us?
- Mort
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1999
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Bill and Ted's Incredible Adventure
- Black Comedy
- The Cat and the Canary
- Passion
- The Commitment
2000
- Passion
- Faust Forward
- Rehearsal for [...]
- Blue Remembered Hills
- An American Dream
- Shakespeare Walk
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- It's Absurd Mr Madin
- Oh What a Lovely War
2001
- Fortinbras
- Forty Years On
- A Walk on the Wilde Side
- Nativity
- Pirates of Penzance
- The Witches
2002
- As Ships Pass By
- Creation
- Morality Meander
- Robin Hood
- Aspects of Love
- After Magritte
- The Real Inspector Hound
2003
- Roses of Eyam
- Greek Stories
- Journey's End
- The Mikado
- Space Demons
- Kes
2004
- The Rose and the Ring
- 12 Angry Men
- The Club
- At His Excellency's Pleasure
- The Madness of George III
- River Dreaming
- The Jungle Play
2005
- Clockwork
- Merton of the Movies
- Good Morning Mr Magpie
- How to Disappear Completely
- Ruddigore
- Premiere
- Lord of the Flies
2006
- The Trial of Thomas Cranmer
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Year 10 Up Late
- The Canterbury Tales
- A Bad Time for Songs
2007
- A Christmas Carol
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- A Touch of Anzac
- Troilus and Cressida
- Roach Motels of Heaven and Hell
- The Outsiders