Arena Theatre Company creates dynamic, contemporary performances for young audiences. With a forty-year history, the company is Australia’s longest running producer of theatre for children and young people.
Arena produces adrenaline-pumping performances for young audiences that combine a seamless fusion of cinema, theatre, animation and surround sound.
The recipient of numerous awards, Arena Theatre Company is recognised internationally for excellence in creating performances for young people. Arena creates theatre of varying scales for regional, national and international touring, from small in-schools touring productions, to large-scale, site-specific multimedia works.
Arena Theatre Company’s achievements have been recognised internationally as the recipient of the 1999 ASSITEJ International Honorary President’s Award for “inspiring, provocative and experimental ways of expressing a new theatrical language…”. In 2002 Arena won the Drama Victoria Award for Best Performance by a Theatre Company for Young People for Play Dirty.
2007 program
Outookers Presented by the Singapore International Festival for Children (March)
Missing Link Presented by Come Out Festival (SA) and arts2GO Regional Arts Victoria (May/June)
Criminology A co-production with Malthouse Theatre Premiering (August)
Australian Marriage Act Presented by the Sydney Opera House and the Arts Centre (VIC) (July/August)
The Girl Who Cried Wolf Presented by the Sydney Opera House (October)
Arena Theatre Company is supported by principal partner, Woodside Energy Ltd. Arena Theatre Company is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body; Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne.
