Fearless Invention

27/02/2022

WRITE A PLAY WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN CANADA AND THE UK
Fearless Invention is kicking off 2022 with our annual international collaboration, THREE-UP, with Young People's Theatre and Action Transport Theatre.

We're looking for four writers aged between 13 and 18 to work with international playwrights and young people and write a play on three continents.

Applications close 9th of March
Message right now for more info and an application form

01/11/2021

We meet again!
After what has seemed an interminable time of Zoom workshops and a couple of transitional picnics supervised by our covid monitor, Smudge (please keep at least one greyhound between you at all times), Fearless Invention is getting back to in-person work tonight.
We'll have more news soon about upcoming projects but today we're celebrating simply being in the same room again.

31/07/2021

Check out the work of our Artistic Director featured on the Australian Plays Transform feed.

ALL THE KING’S CHILDREN by Suzanne Hauser is now available at Australian Plays Transform!

ALL THE KING’S CHILDREN was inspired by the true story of two French princes who were taken hostage in 1525 by the Holy Roman Emperor in exchange for their father’s promise that he would not, once again, start a war. In our version of Renaissance Europe all gender identities are considered equal and girls are just as likely as boys to grow up to rule countries and lead armies.

https://apt.org.au/script/APT-16

21/07/2021

Hello Friends,

We’ve been a bit quiet on the Fearless Invention social media of late – not because we’re not deep in work on a brilliant new project – more BECAUSE we’re deep in work on a brilliant new project.

But now we’re all in lockdown and all our work has moved online.

We thought, since so many of us are in the same locked-down boat at the moment, we might share some of our strategies for staying connected and creative in between rounds of, “Can you hear me now? My mic’s not working for some reason,” and bushranger research (YES, you read that right – there will be well-researched bushrangers in our next project).

A favourite game we’ve developed is Finish the Quote.

Here’s how it works. Someone – in this case me – compiles a list of relatively well-known Shakespeare quotes – thank goodness this is an almost inexhaustible source of material – but cuts them short and leaves off the end. The challenge to our ensemble is to create brand new endings to these quotes with the only restriction that they can’t use whichever words dear old Will used in the originals.

I usually post five at a time in the Chat and give the ensemble five minutes to post their responses, also in the Chat, but this time only to me.

I quickly copy and paste the responses, but not the names of the respondees, into a document. When all the responses are in I screen-share the doc and we vote on our favourites. You’re not allowed to vote for your own and the player with the most votes wins the round.

Next time you’re stuck for something to get the creative brain working on zoom, give it a try.

(A week later I’m still giggling at, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your second-best shovel”.)

Here are some of our favourite examples.

28/05/2021

We could not be prouder of Fearless Invention member, Ava, whose brilliant mind, courage, commitment and social conscience is awe inspiring.

Federal Court rules that the federal environment minister owes a ‘duty of care’ to protect children from climate impacts of coal mine expansion.

16/04/2021

On a quest to understand more about the history of our city we visited the Museum of Sydney today and Sofia came face to um... ankle ? (would you call that an ankle? a plinth? a worm-like appendage?) with Governor Macquarie.

Walking through the streets around Circular Quay may have been the most instructive part of the day. Random angles and tangled laneways lead to buildings and places that have been reshaped, rebuilt, resurfaced and rewritten, time and again, as Sydney keeps changing the story it wants to tell about its past, place and its people.

Our challenge is to find a way to put that shifting narrative onstage.

27/03/2021

Beginnings...
The very first Fearless Invention production is in development!
We have our idea, we have some sketched-out characters and we are going waaaayyy down a rabbit hole of historical research learning all we can about Sydney in the 1860s.
We're anticipating a year of big frocks and bigger challenging ideas.

11/03/2021

Our brilliant friend Laneikka Denne, is premiering her first play, Dead Skin at Kings Cross Theatre April 2nd - 17th, directed by Kim Hardwick. Laneikka wrote the work when she was seventeen and she hopes to fill the audience with young artists.

To make this possible, tickets to Dead Skin on Thursday, April 8th and 15th will be $20 for audiences under 30 with the code KXT20for20s. You can read more about the work and purchase ticcies here:
http://www.kingsxtheatre.com/dead-skin

17/02/2021

We have an incredible opportunity for young writers!
Fearless Invention is partnering with Action Transport Theatre in the UK and Young People's Theatre in Canada for THREE UP, an international collaborative playwriting project.

Four young writers in Sydney will work with international theatre artists and young people on three continents to co-write an original play.

If you or someone you know is aged between 13 and 18 and excited for a new writing opportunity message us now for more information and an application.

10/02/2021

Creation of Fearless invention's very first production has begun.

At the start there are the questions: what in the world can we not stop thinking about? What's confusing us, baffling us, sometimes enraging us? The very best ideas are always the ones that won't leave us alone.

01/02/2021

The 1st of February, 2041 we will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Fearless Invention's very first theatre-making workshop! Three hours of creativity and laughter was a great way to begin

28/01/2021

Fearless invention is a brand new adventure but we start with more than a decade of experience producing the work of young, sometimes very young, playwrights. The best thing about this moment right now is wondering where the brilliant minds of our ensemble will take us when we start our very first workshops next week.