Press Play is an interactive sensory theatre experience designed as a ‘sensory playground’ for kids. Created for the 2025 Adelaide Fringe, this 45-minute show featuring original music creates a magical garden scene where children and families are invited to explore a wind-chime forest; join in with movement/dancing; make paper bling; and play under the rainbow and beneath the disco ball stars.

PRESS PLAY premiere 16 March 2025

Concept and songs by Alice Orchard. Written and performed by Alice Orchard and Amy Wyatt with Grace Stovin-Bradford.
Costume consultant: Susan Lee. Photos by Megan Spencer taken at Domain Theatre, Marion Cultural Centre.

Backstage & behind the scenes

Cast Bios

Alice Orchard is an Adelaide-based songwriter who has played in rock bands and performed in musical theatre since her teens. Her original songs feature on the albums Houses (2009) and Back When Never (2012) with Country Town Collective and her solo album Blue Dress (2018). In 1995, at the age of seventeen she wrote the score for an original musical theatre production for kids, Throwing Dust In Your Eyes (libretto by Clare Butler) based on the fairytale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses, then produced an updated version of this show as the rock musical Princessez in 2020. She currently performs with folk-pop band Dreamer Schema and children’s entertainment duo Alice and Amy sing, who have a loyal following on YouTube.

Photo by Megan Spencer.

Amy Wyatt is a seasoned theatre collaborator performing in lead and chorus roles for a variety of theatre and musical theatre productions in her home town of Wollongong, including Catherine in Proof by David Auburn with Wollongong Workshop Theatre (2009); Avenue Q with So Popera (2013) and Kim in Miss Saigon with Roo Theatre Company (2016). She co-wrote and directed The Last Eisteddfod for the Arcadians theatre company at the Miners Lamp Theatre in 2007. She now calls Adelaide home, where she continues to teach and perform whenever she can, including as part of children’s entertainment duo Alice and Amy sing.

Photo by Megan Spencer.

Amy stands smiling holding a large handpainted white flower that looks like a daisy. She is wearing blue overalls over a white tshirt.

Grace Stovin-Bradford is an artist, art therapist, and all-round creativity enthusiast who’s all about messy hands and big ideas. Whether she’s crocheting something cozy, piecing together mosaics, or painting up a storm, she’s always creating. And when she’s not making, you’ll find her beach-hopping, camping under the stars with friends, or curled up in a café with a good book and a matcha—probably dreaming up her next creative project.

Photo by Megan Spencer.

Susan Lee is an accomplished costume maker and consultant whose previous work includes costumes for Westminster School’s production of Mamma Mia (2023) and numerous dance and theatre companies around Adelaide since 1998. Susan also creates angel gowns, crochet and knitted items for Angel Gowns for Australian Angel Babies Inc., with whom she has volunteered her time for many years. She also creates capes for Capes4Kids Australia Inc. and, together with her eldest daughter, is an active member of Handmade for SA Charities Inc.

Photo by Megan Spencer.

Dedication

We dedicate this show to our friend and colleague Laura White, who performed with us in Princessez in 2020. Laura we are grateful to have worked with you and will always remember you for your bubbly nature, cheeky sense of fun and your incredible talent. We love and miss you.

Photo by Megan Spencer..