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The Time is Now

24 May – 5 Jun 2021

Venue

The Roundhouse Theatre

Producer

La Boite Theatre

Director

Co-created by Ari Palani, Aleea Monsour and David Burton, with La Boite’s Young Artist Company
Developed with All The Queens Men

Cast

Omalkire Akil Ahmed
Huda Akhlaki
Jessica Boyd
Joe Cranitch
Sophia Ferreira da Luz
Diali Kemp
Rachel Kennedy
Zander Pynenburg
Carys Walsh
Fujia Sarah Xu

Set Designer

Anthony Spinaze

Lighting Designer

Ben Hughes

Sound Designer

Tony Brumpton

“We will not be silenced.”

One stage, one microphone, countless young voices demanding to be heard.

THE TIME IN NOW is a thrilling glimpse into the future as imagined by 10 switched-on and politically savvy young Queenslanders aged 12-17, that make up La Boite’s Young Artist Company.

Real teenagers with real conviction, spanning diverse cultures, backgrounds and political views, will make you sit up and pay attention as they advocate for a better future.

THE TIME IS NOW gives this young citizen’s assembly a stage and a platform to deliver their first political speeches, threading dance, dialogue and surprise cameo appearances among each powerful presentation.

The inspired performance piece, developed in collaboration with trailblazing arts organisation All The Queen’s Men and co-created by Ari Palani, Aleea Monsour and David Burton, gives voice to a generation often silenced or dismissed.

THE TIME IS NOW is an entertaining and exhilarating exercise in the power of energy and ideas and demonstrates once and for all that children should be seen and heard.

Welcome to the future.