Set and Costume Design
Directed by Amelia Burke | Written by Grace Chow | Video Design by Roly Skender |
Lighting Design by Matthew Erren | Sound Design by David Stewart
WA Youth Theatre Co. | The Liberty Theatre | 2024

“A-Z is full of visual impact with solid performances from every single cast member” Perth Arts Live. 1 Dec 2024.

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Production Photos

Photography by Daniel J Grant

About the Project

Why do so many Australians go missing? Do they want to be found?
Each year 55,000 people go missing in Australia and this figure is growing. Most of those who are reported missing are found within a short period of time, thousands are not. Mysteries swell and closure never comes. Why do so many Australians go missing? Do they want to be found? And why do young people make up a disproportionate number of those missing?
The play centres on Em Wells, a young radio host living with the spectre of a missing loved one and coping in the only way she knows how. Em has befriended Tassie, a personified Tasmanian Tiger. Tassie and Em are playing a dangerous game – will Tassie convince Em to go missing too? Against this struggle, surreal scenes and verbatim reports weave together the stories of long-term missing Australians, from Aaron Clear to Zoran Kostantinnovic.

The relevance to young people demands that the story is told by a young playwright, performed by a large youth ensemble, and produced by the State’s youth theatre company. An intelligent contemporary Australian voice, Chow was awarded the prestigious Griffin Award (2022), for her play The Promise Land. Paired up with WAYTCo’s Artistic Director, Amelia Burke, the two make an exciting creative force.
WA Youth Theatre Co.