SA youth theatre heads True North

A new ensemble for young people with a passion for the arts is being established in Adelaide’s northern suburbs.
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Established by AJZ Productions, with support from the Port Adelaide-Enfield Council, the True North – Youth Theatre Ensemble aims to provide young people aged 8 – 17 with an affordable, social, collaborative and safe place in which they will be able to express themselves while learning performance skills and practices.

AJZ Productions’ Artistic Director, Alirio Zavarce, who began his own performance career in a youth ensemble, said that the project was sparked by his realisation that Adelaide’s northern suburbs lacked opportunities for creatively-minded children and teenagers.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts