COME OUT CATERS TO COUNTRY KIDS!

The highly anticipated Come Out ’09 festival, ‘Colliding Worlds’, gets set to rocket its way through regional South Australia engaging children and young people across the state.

Held from 18-30 May, Australia’s biggest festival for young people will tour throughout regional towns from Roxby Downs to Mount Gambier, Port Lincoln to Whyalla reaching over 30,000 young people and their families.

Artistic Director Jason Cross said, “One of the truly unique features of the Come Out festival is its accessibility to children and young people not just within Adelaide, but throughout regional South Australia.  Come Out celebrates the idea that art can exist at anytime and in any place so it’s important that the festival reaches those living in regional and isolated areas.”

Amongst the shows set to tour, Come Out ’09 presents a new work by Slingsby titled Wolf. With its world premiere season starting in Mt Gambier on May 6, Wolf is a bewitching, bold, original and physical theatre production which celebrates the power of fairy tales and the role that stories play in our lives. Wolf features large-scale projection, filmic sound design and an original fantasy horror score composed by Quincy Grant and recorded by the Adelaide Art Orchestra, conducted by Timothy Sexton.

Celebrated performing arts company Pocketfool Productions will showcase both All Gone! to children 1-4 years and The Squeaky Window to children 4-8years throughout Quorn and Whyalla. The Squeaky Window is a joyful and surprising celebration of imaginative play with two friends embark on a hilarious and touching journey where the 2D and 3D worlds blend into one when they discover a wonderful window that squeaks!

All Gone! explores the theme of loss with an intimate and highly visual show for very young children that comically explores the way we connect with each other through play and the notion of things disappearing. 
Touring throughout Renmark and Murray Bridge, Zeal Theatre’s production of The Stones is based on a true story of two boys charged with manslaughter after throwing rocks from a freeway overpass and killing a motorist. An internationally acclaimed production, it is a tour de force of multi-skilled story telling and high energy physical theatre for teenagers and adults.
The Come Out ’09 regional touring program will tour throughout regional South Australia from 6-29 May.