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Welcome to the premiere of
Press Play: an interactive concert for kids!
Concept and songs by Alice Orchard. Written and performed by Alice Orchard and Amy Wyatt with Grace Stovin-Bradford.
Costume consultant: Susan Lee. Media consultant: Megan Spencer.
A band of insects, echoes in a chime forest, a game of planet ball and chasing daydreams …
what happens when you press play?
Press Play is an interactive sensory theatre performance featuring all-original music and designed as a ‘sensory playground’ for kids, who are invited to explore different sounds in the chime forest; join in with movement/dancing; make paper craft and bling; and play under the rainbow and beneath the (disco ball) stars. Both 45-minute shows are “relaxed performances” where children are encouraged to move about, sing, play and interact.
Join us for a magical adventure this March at the Adelaide Fringe!
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.
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..