User:Melizma06/FAST (Festival of Australia Student Theatre)
{{Userspace draft|source=ArticleWizard|date=November 2010}}
FAST (Festival of Australian Student Theatre) is a festival that aims to bring together Australian student theatre companies to showcase the work of emerging theatre artists and practitioners. The festival also features independent student theatre companies formed by current university students or recent university graudates http://fastfestival.com.au.
FAST is run is association with La Boite Theatre Company and the Creative Industries faculty of the Queensland University of Technology.
About
FAST is a non-profit organisation established by Ben Schostakowski and Belinda Locke. Both Ben and Belinda are recent graduates of the Queensland University of Technology's drama degree, and were formerly involved in student theatre through Vena Cava Productions, the student theatre company of the Queensland University of Technology http://fastfestival.com.au. Initial discussion about the festival were begun by the 2008 Vena Cava Productions executive committee.
As part of the company's relationship with QUT, the FAST festival team includes primarily QUT undergraduate students who are able to undertake roles within the festival to obtain credit towards their Creative Industries or Drama undergraduate degrees.
When
The inaugural festival was held from 17th - 19th September 2010, in the Roundhouse theatre of the historical La Boite Theatre company in Brisbane, Queensland.
The dates for the 2011 festival are yet to be announced.
2010 Programme
In 2010, FAST festival presented the following theatre companies and performances from around Australia:
=Student Theatre Company Productions=
| class="wikitable" width="100%" | ||||
| width="25%"|Name of production | width="25%"|Name of university/student theatre company | width="10%"|State | width="25%"|Details | width="15%"|Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wake In Fright | La Trobe student theatre and film | Victoria | Adapted and directed by Bob Pavlich. From the novel by Kenneth Cook | [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/guild/student-theatre/ La Trobe student theatre and film website] |
| Short Works | La Trobe student theatre and film | Victoria | [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/guild/student-theatre/ La Trobe student theatre and film website] | |
| Flu Season | Queensland University of Technology, Vena Cava Productions | Queensland | Written by Will Eno | [http://www.venacavaproductions.com Vena Cava website] |
| Hippolytus Raised | SUDS (Sydney University Dramatic Society), University of Sydney Union | New South Wales | [http://www.sudsonline.org SUDS website] | |
| Burn my heart out | Underground Productions, University of Queensland | Queensland | by Jeremy Wood | [http://www.undergroundproductions.org.au/ Underground Productions website] |
=Independent Student Productions=
| class="wikitable" width="100%" | ||||
| width="25%"|Name of production | width="25%"|Affiliated university | width="10%"|State | width="25%"|Details | width="15%"|Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limbus | Queensland University of Technology | Queensland | Written and directed by Ryanna Clayton | N/A |
| The Object of My Affection | University of Melbourne | Victoria | by Full Skirted Productions | N/A |
| Lifeblog | Queensland University of Technology | Queensland | By eXp Performance Collective | N/A |
| Stuck in four walls | Griffith University | Queensland | Written by Martina Cross | N/A |
| Dear Mrs Edmondson | Griffith University | Queensland | Written by Craig Wood | N/A |
| Debauchery Limited | Queensland University of Technology | Queensland | By Radical Dumb Army. Written by Daniel Maloney | N/A |
| Australian Ghost | James Cook University | Queensland | By Tristan Savage | N/A |
=24 Hour Play Project=
In 2010, the University of Melbourne, Theatre Incubator and Transition Theatre presented the 24 Hour Play project, which brought together groups of students involved in the festival to write, rehearse and perform 5 brand new plays in the space of 24 Hours.
Supporters and Sponsors
FAST is run in association with:
- La Boite Theatre Company
- Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries faculty
- Vena Cava Productions
- miscmedia
References
{{Reflist}}