The Midnite Youth Theatre Company is a youth theatre company based in Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

. It was founded in 1987 by Antony Howes, Sir Peter Gadsden and the then-Headmaster of Perth's Christ Church Grammar School

Christ Church Grammar School

Christ Church Grammar School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys from Pre-Primary to Year 12. Located in Perth, Western Australia, the school overlooks the Swan River at Freshwater Bay in Claremont....

, AJ de V Hill. Consequently the theatre company operates out of Christ Church Grammar School

Christ Church Grammar School

Christ Church Grammar School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys from Pre-Primary to Year 12. Located in Perth, Western Australia, the school overlooks the Swan River at Freshwater Bay in Claremont....

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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

Randolph Stow

Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...

'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 Song of the Seals"The Rose and the Ring

The Rose and the Ring

The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fiction written by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published at Christmas 1854...

and straight dramas such as "Dead White Males"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

Tim Minchin

Timothy David "Tim" Minchin is a British-Australian comedian, actor, and musician.Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia,...

 http://www.timminchin.com/actor/cv-actor/, Emma Pearson, Stuart Halusz and Rebecca Davis.

Guest actors

Notable guest actors who have worked with the Midnite Youth Theatre Company include Jill Perryman

Jill Perryman

Jill Perryman AM MBE is an Australian stage actress and singer, born in Melbourne. Her parents and her sister were all prominent in Australian theatre. At the age of 19, she joined J.C...

, Jenny Davis, Tedd Bull, Michael Loney

Michael Loney

-British Television:His work includes Tenko, Robin of Sherwood, Coronation Street and Howards' Way .-Australian Television:...

 and Caroline McKenzie

Caroline McKenzie

-Television:Her television work includes Ship to Shore, The Shark Net and The Sleepover Club.-Theatre:Her theatre work includes:*The 20's and All That Jazz, The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fen and Safety in Numbers for Hole in the Wall Theatre Company.*Godspell, Chicago, The Jack the...

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List of seasons

Italics represent an international tour season.
1987

• Midnite
• Charley's Aunt
  Charley's Aunt
  Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....
  
  

1988

• Midnite
• The Yeomen of the Guard
  The Yeomen of the Guard
  The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and His Maid, is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 3 October 1888, and ran for 423 performances...
  
  
• A Likeable Rogue
• A Phoenix Too Frequent
• The Car

1989

• Pippin
  Pippin (musical)
  Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto...
  
  
• Amadeus
  Amadeus
  Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...
  
  
• The Rape of the Bell
• The Incredible Mind-Blowing Trial of Jack Smith

1990

• The Birds
  The Birds
  The Birds may refer to:*The Birds , by Aristophanes*The Birds , by Tarjei Vesaas*The Birds , by Daphne du Maurier*The Birds , directed by Alfred Hitchcock*The Birds , by Walter Braunfels...
  
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
  
• Boots An' All

1991

• The Ghost Train
• On the Razzle
  On the Razzle (play)
  On the Razzle is a play by Tom Stoppard. It is an adaptation of the Viennese play Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, which previously was adapted twice by Thornton Wilder...
  
  
• Friends But Not Neighbours
• Mask and Murder
• Kerry's Baby
• The Real Inspector Hound
  The Real Inspector Hound
  The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit...
  
  
• Unto Us A Son Is Born

1992

• The Wind In the Willows
• The Fantasticks
  The Fantasticks
  The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It was produced by Lore Noto. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into...
  
  
• Space Demons
• An Absurd Evening
• Play of the Periphery

1993

• The Business of the Good Government
• Habeas Corpus
  Habeas Corpus (play)
  Habeas Corpus is a comedy stage play by the English author Alan Bennett. It was first performed at the Lyric Theatre in London on 10 May 1973, with Alec Guinness and Margaret Courtenay in the lead roles....
  
  
• Cook's Choices
• When the Pea Drops
• Andorra
  Andorra (play)
  Andorra is a play written by the Swiss dramatist Max Frisch in 1961. The original text came from a prose sketch Frisch had written in his diary titled Der andorranische Jude . The Andorra in Frisch's play is fictional and not intended to be a representation of the real Andorra located between...
  
  
• En Masse
• Loot
  Loot (play)
  Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force....
  
  
• Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
• Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
  

1994

• Memories of War
• The Play of the Royal Astronomer
• The Birds
  The Birds
  The Birds may refer to:*The Birds , by Aristophanes*The Birds , by Tarjei Vesaas*The Birds , by Daphne du Maurier*The Birds , directed by Alfred Hitchcock*The Birds , by Walter Braunfels...
  
  
• Riverside
• Australian Stories
• Love's Labour's Lost
  Love's Labour's Lost
  Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.-Title:...
  
  
• Man of Steel

1995

• Song of the Seals
• Friends But Not Neighbours
• Oh Godot
• Popular Mechanicals
• Illumination
• Mother Courage
  Mother Courage
  Mother Courage is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche dating from around 1670...
  
  
• Murder in the Cathedral
  Murder in the Cathedral
  Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935...
  
  
• Guy's Revolt

1996

• The Queen & The Rebels
• Racing Demon
• Man of La Mancha
  Man of La Mancha
  Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote...
  
  
• 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
  Dead white males
  Dead white males or Dead White European Males is a derogatory term that refers to a purportedly disproportionate academic focus on contributions to historical and contemporary Western civilization made by European males....
  
  
• Urbs Urbis
• Midnite
• The Baker's Boy
• What If She Doesn't Know Us?
• Mort
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun
  The Royal Hunt of the Sun
  The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a 1964 play by Peter Shaffer that portrays the destruction of the Inca empire by conquistador Francisco Pizarro.-Premiere:...
  
  

1999

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
  
  
• Bill and Ted's Incredible Adventure
• Black Comedy
  Black Comedy
  Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965.The play is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage...
  
  
• The Cat and the Canary
• Passion
  Passion (play)
  Passion Play is a 1981 play by British playwright Peter Nichols dealing with adultery and betrayal. It was originally intended to open the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Barbican Theatre but was produced by them at the London's Aldwych Theatre in 1981...
  
  
• The Commitment

2000

• Passion
  Passion (play)
  Passion Play is a 1981 play by British playwright Peter Nichols dealing with adultery and betrayal. It was originally intended to open the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Barbican Theatre but was produced by them at the London's Aldwych Theatre in 1981...
  
  
• Faust Forward
• Rehearsal for Murder
• Blue Remembered Hills
  Blue Remembered Hills
  Blue Remembered Hills is a television play by Dennis Potter, originally broadcast on January 30, 1979 as part of the BBC's Play for Today series....
  
  
• An American Dream
• Shakespeare Walk
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation, with music by Teiji Ito, made its Broadway preview on November 12, 1963, its premiere on November 13, and ran until January 25, 1964 for a total of one preview and 82...
  
  
• It's Absurd Mr Madin
• Oh What a Lovely War
  Oh What a Lovely War
  Oh What a Lovely War may refer to one of a number of fictional works:* Oh, What a Lovely War! - a stage musical created in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop...
  
  

2001

• Fortinbras
  Fortinbras (play)
  Fortinbras is a 1991 play by American playwright Lee Blessing. Set immediately following William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play recounts the events after Hamlet's death that go on throughout Elsinore. The play includes almost every character from Hamlet returning as a ghost....
  
  
• Forty Years On
  Forty Years On (play)
  Forty Years On is a 1968 play by Alan Bennett. It was his first West End play.-Subject:The play is set in a British public school called Albion House , which is putting on an end of term play in front of the parents, i.e. the audience...
  
  
• A Walk on the Wilde Side
• Nativity
• Pirates of Penzance
• The Witches
  The Witches
  The Witches is a children's book by Roald Dahl, first published in London in 1983 by Jonathan Cape. The book, like many of Dahl's works, is illustrated by Quentin Blake. Its content has made the book the frequent target of censors. It appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most...
  
  

2002

• As Ships Pass By
• Creation
• Morality Meander
• Robin Hood
• Aspects of Love
  Aspects of Love
  Aspects of Love is a musical/chamber opera with a book and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart. It is famous for the song "Love Changes Everything."...
  
  
• After Magritte
• The Real Inspector Hound
  The Real Inspector Hound
  The Real Inspector Hound is a short, one-act play by Tom Stoppard. The plot follows two theatre critics named Moon and Birdboot who are watching a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit...
  
  

2003

• Roses of Eyam
• Greek Stories
• Journey's End
  Journey's End
  Journey's End is a 1928 drama, the seventh of English playwright R. C. Sherriff. It was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London by the Incorporated Stage Society on 9 December 1928, starring a young Laurence Olivier, and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run...
  
  
• The Mikado
  The Mikado
  The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations...
  
  
• Space Demons
• Kes

2004

• The Rose and the Ring
  The Rose and the Ring
  The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fiction written by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published at Christmas 1854...
  
  
• 12 Angry Men
  12 Angry Men (play)
  Twelve Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose adapted from his 1954 teleplay of the same title for the CBS Studio One anthology television series...
  
  
• The Club
  The Club (play)
  The Club is a satirical play by Australian playwright David Williamson, that follows the fortunes of a football club over the course of a season. It explores the clashes between "human loyalty versus materialistic gain". It was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Victorian Football...
  
  
• At His Excellency's Pleasure
• The Madness of George III
  The Madness of George III (play)
  The Madness of George III is a 1991 play by Alan Bennett. It is a fictionalised biographical study of the latter half of the reign of George III of Great Britain, his battle with mental illness and the inability of his court to handle his condition...
  
  
• River Dreaming
• The Jungle Play

2005

• Clockwork
• Merton of the Movies
  Merton of the Movies
  Merton of the Movies is a 1919 book written by Harry Leon Wilson. In 1922, it was adapted into a Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. A 1924 silent movie version was directed by James Cruze and starred Glenn Hunter who had created the role on Broadway...
  
  
• Good Morning Mr Magpie
• How to Disappear Completely
• Ruddigore
  Ruddigore
  Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan...
  
  
• Premiere
• Lord of the Flies
  Lord of the Flies
  Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results...
  
  

2006

• The Trial of Thomas Cranmer
• To Kill a Mockingbird
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature...
  
  
• Year 10 Up Late
• The Canterbury Tales
  The Canterbury Tales
  The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at...
  
  
• A Bad Time for Songs

2007

• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...
  
  
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
  
  
• A Touch of Anzac
• Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
  
  
• Roach Motels of Heaven and Hell
• The Outsiders
  The Outsiders (novel)
  The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel based in 1965 by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel, but did most of the work when she was sixteen and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published...
  
  

2008

• The Premiere
• Coram Boy
  Coram Boy (play)
  Coram Boy is a play written by Helen Edmundson with music composed by Adrian Sutton, based on the 2000 children's novel of the same name by Jamila Gavin, an epic adventure that concerns the theme of child cruelty...
  
  

2009

• The Ghost Train
• Pygmalion
  Pygmalion (play)
  Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...
  
  
• West Side Story
• The History Boys
  The History Boys
  The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Lyttelton Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where there were 185 performances staged before it closed on 1 October 2006.The play won multiple...
  
  

External links

• The West Australian: Twenty Years Round Midnite
• Perth Now: Favourite Son
• Midnite Youth Theatre Company