In Action
Welcome to
A selection of original Playpaks and Playscripts for all ages
created by Annette Innes
The 'Drama-on-Wheels' Project
A year's project where a group of disabled people from the Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Sydney, workshopped a play with a class of Primary Students in three different schools - culminating in a final performance.
Schoolchildren
visited the MS Centre and helped devise an outline for the play. A script
was written and puppets were created. Weekly rehearsals were held at the
school. The adults provided the voices, while students moved puppets and
played music. Great empathy, valuable skills and much fun resulted with students virtually adopting the adult 'voicing' their puppet.
Performances were held at each school and these were unforgettable experiences.
Critical comments from the funding bodies and the media relating to Theatre and Disabled People.
"Many, many congratulations on the 'Drama on Wheels' project.....the involvement of schools with the disabled through the arts is such a good idea and clearly works, that you should not be allowed to stop....." Christine Westwood, Project Officer, Australian Schools.
Performances of 'Cast Off' at Queensland Performing Arts Complex
"Director, Annette Innes and the Access Arts group have made good use of their theatre workshop time together. They have done an excellent job." Rebecca Wilson, Courier Mail.
"A cast of fourteen players - ten of them severely disabled will take off on tour to perform in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra - a pioneering theatre venture. Annette says 'Theatre skills are life skill. The play's the thing, the theraputic effects are side benefits.'" Barbara Blackman, The Australian.
Performances of 'Fractured Fantasy' at Queensland Performing Arts Complex.
"An original musical drama written and directed by Annette Innes as part of the opening celebrations of the Queensland Performing Arts Complex. It could have been Offenbach, this lighthearted send-up of mythology ................Annette Innes succeeded beautifully in a situation fraught with pitfalls. Enthusiastic dancing, colourful tableaux and a wonderful dragon, manned and moved by three performers in wheelchairs, brought the story to it's happy conclusion."Sue Gough, The Australian.
"In 'Fractured Fantasy' Annette Innes has written and directed an ideal piece of theatre for handicapped people.......... in fact the response from the audience at the Cremorne Theatre was such that Ms Innes and crew should consider presenting more theatre of this callibre." Rebecca Wilson, Courier Mail.