The Voices Project

New Australian voices: on stage, on page, on film, online.

THE VOICES PROJECT brings together the best of new monologue writing from atyp’s Fresh Ink emerging playwright program, and presents it on stage, on page, on film and online, giving voice to a new generation of Australian writers, theatremakers, filmmakers and performers.

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Celebrate with this meditation on the words of one of Ireland’s greatest poets, WB Yeats, and his poem ‘When You Are Old’. First love & the power of poetry explored in BAT EYES.

Sydney-based writer Tom Mesker on his acclaimed monologue, THE MANGROVES, part of this year’s theatreshow for The Voices Project.’WTF, I’m going to do what I do because that’s all I can do and it’s really all we do, do.’

Sydney-based writer Tom Mesker on his acclaimed monologue, THE MANGROVES, part of this year’s theatreshow for The Voices Project.’WTF, I’m going to do what I do because that’s all I can do and it’s really all we do, do.’

Be part of The Voices Project in 2013.

Be part of The Voices Project in 2013.

‘Truthfully, when I’m not writing, I LOVE writing….Then the time comes to write and I go, WHAT? I HATE THIS! What, am I nuts?’ 01 Lally Katz on why she writes (by FreshInkATYP). 

We thought it was a good idea to interview one of Australia’s leading playwrights about how to write a monologue. But he was very jetlagged and so a bit…unfocussed….

My Fraud Voice is extremely opinionated, likes to butt into intelligent conversation and feels particularly comfortable sharing her encouragement when I’m writing.  Julia-Rose Lewis on writing & feeling a fraud

My Fraud Voice is extremely opinionated, likes to butt into intelligent conversation and feels particularly comfortable sharing her encouragement when I’m writing.  Julia-Rose Lewis on writing & feeling a fraud

Yes!  Playwright Tommy Murphy will be mentoring LOVE BYTES winner Kim Ho to turn Kim’s 3 minute Transcendence into an 8 minute piece for later this year. 

Yes!  Playwright Tommy Murphy will be mentoring LOVE BYTES winner Kim Ho to turn Kim’s 3 minute Transcendence into an 8 minute piece for later this year. 

Two Sydney films make semi-finals of YouTube contest

Two short films by young Sydney playwrights and actors have been selected as semi-finalists in a YouTube competition to find the world’s best storytellers.



Bat Eyes and Boot, starring actors aged 17 to 22 and filmed by Sydney director Damien Power, have already amassed more than 50,000 views online and are expected to reach hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

A novel, poem, short story is complete in itself. A play is not, it’s a provocation. Its job is to inspire and engage the imaginations of the director, designer, composer, choreographer, actors.

Hilary Bell, Playwrights are not writers, Fresh Ink 

What we write is not an end-product. It’s not written to be read, it’s a blueprint for a future structure, an architect’s plan. It’s a roadmap, a set of instructions, a code to be cracked. Our collection of words on paper outlines something ephemeral and virtual: a world waiting to be given physicality, breath and life.

Hilary Bell on playwrights