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LAUNCHPAD EMERGING ENSEMBLE
LITTLE GIRLS ALONE IN THE WOODS BY MORGAN ROSE PERFORMED BY THE LAUNCHPAD ENSEMBLE JULY 2025
HotHouse is calling young actors from Year 7 to Year 11, who are interested in learning how to create a full-length production within a professional rehearsal process.
If this is you, consider auditioning for our 2024 LaunchPad Emerging Ensemble at HotHouse Theatre!
HotHouse Theatre’s LaunchPad Emerging Ensemble is a term-based, by-audition drama program focused on the skills development of emerging performers, preparing them to launch toward their chosen disciplines.
Prioritising curiosity, connection and play, artists will begin the process of discovering their craft through exploration of rehearsal room process, performance, theatre-making techniques and introduction to text.
In 2024, LaunchPad artists will be working toward a production of a new Australian play for public presentation in October.
HotHouse will run a 3-day Audition Workshop for LaunchPad in the January School Holidays | 17–19 January @ 10am-4pm.
There is no charge to participate in the audition workshop but participants must be available to attend for the full 3 days.
It will be a gentle audition process weaved through 3 days of fun drama games and activities – a great experience on its own!
In a term intensive winter project, the 24/25 ensemble bring to life Morgan Rose’s LITTLE GIRLS ALONE IN THE WOODS these July school holidays.
A contemporary, feminist fuelled retelling of The Bacchae – Euripides Greek tragedy in ode Dionysus, the Greek god of festivity and madness- LITTLE GIRLS ALONE IN THE WOODS tells the story of a group of teenagers in a small country town, as they observe the mysterious disappearance of their female peers.
Orwellian in nature, the work reflects on the response that young people have to the multi-layered pressures of the world, from next week’s homework assignment to global conflict.
As an opportunity to further explore character motivation and themes of youth autonomy, peer pressure, gender norms and social expectations: the Launchpad present their own gritty rendition of this compelling work.
Cast: Frances Brown, Charlie Cook, Ruby Davis, Saraya Essop, Vivienne Field, Lily Fruend, Ava Lonel, Harriet Nickols, Oli Pidd and Thomas Spalding.
WHAT IS LAUNCHPAD?
HotHouse Theatre’s LaunchPad Emerging Ensemble is a term-based, by-audition drama program focused on the skills development of emerging performers, AGED 12-16 preparing them to launch toward their chosen disciplines.
Prioritising curiosity, connection and play, artists will begin the process of discovering their craft through exploration of rehearsal room process, performance, theatre-making techniques and introduction to text.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
2025-26 auditions will be in the second half of the year.
For more information or to express your interest for auditions, please contact lead artist Clancy Hauser [email protected].
workshop Information
Workshop: LaunchPad Emerging Ensemble Auditions – 3-day workshop
Dates: 17 – 19 January (all 3 days)
Times: 10am – 4pm daily
Venue: Butter Factory Theatre – Studio
Ages: Year 7 to Year 11. Previous LaunchPad participants can also audition.
From there artists will be invited to join the ensemble.
Ensemble rehearsals will commence at the end of Term 1. It will be a combination of intensive 5-day workshops in each school holidays (April, July, September) then a regular weekly rehearsal on Wednesday afternoons in terms 2 & 3.
The production text will be confirmed with artists at the January School Holiday Audition workshop.
Please see the link below for further information about the LaunchPad: Emerging Ensemble and Audition Information Pack.
CLICK HERE to secure your place in the January AUDITION WORKSHOP now.
[LaunchPad: Emerging Ensemble 2024 Audition Workshop Registration (google.com)]
CLICK HERE to download the LaunchPad: Audition & Monologue Pack
LEAD ARTIST Clancy Hauser
ASSOCIATE GENERATOR ARTIST Zajkel Zaia
Launch Pad is supported by the Australian Theatre for Young People through the Generator Program.
