The Chapel, The fire and the dead cat
by Madelaine Nunn

The Chapel, The fire and the dead cat

Winner of the ATYP Foundation Commission (cast aged 14-17 years) 2019.
Nominated for an Australian Writer’s Guild Award.

Smoke and ash. Wood and earth. You smelt it before you saw it. When the cursed Chapel on the hill burns to the ground, the authorities have some questions. Their suspects: the high school students seen there that night.

An act of terror? Work of the divine? Or merely an accident? The Chapel, the Fire and the Dead Cat flashes between torch-lit glimpses of teenage misdemeanours. Piece by piece we are drawn deeper into the mystery, getting closer and closer to… something… and that something might just be supernatural.

An act of terror? Work of the divine? Or merely an accident?

THEMES: Supernatural, Friendship, Coming of Age
LENGTH: 120 Minutes
CAST SIZE: 11, Large Cast
SUITABLE FOR: Middle - Senior Years

This Australian gothic-theatre play explores four parallel stories of a range of teenage characters who give insights into their secrets, struggles, and ambitions as they are on a quest for self-acceptance and trying to fit in.

 

production history

  • ATYP in collaboration with Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, Sydney

  • Bundamba State Secondary College, QLD

  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College

  • Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, Melbourne

  • St Ives High School, Sydney

  • St Mark's Catholic College, Sydney 

  • Dream House Theatre Company, Melbourne

  • Princes Hill Secondary College, Melbourne

  • Lock and Hock Productions, Yeppoon, QLD

  • Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School 

  • Shake and Stir, QLD

  • Saint Stephen's College, Upper Coomera

  • Luther College, VIC

  • Macabre Theatre Company, QLD

  • Australian Performing Arts Grammar School, NSW

  • Banksia Park International High school, SA

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