Goodwood’s Urban Myth transforms into SA Youth Arts and puts on show about selfies for Adelaide Fringe festival
A NEW theatre company has risen from the ashes of Urban Myth and they’re putting on a Fringe show all about selfies.
SA YOUTH Arts has risen from the ashes of theatre group Urban Myth like a good selfie can rise up a Facebook newsfeed.
Selfies – photos taken of yourself – are the theme of the SA Youth Art’s first Fringe show, #nofilter.
Former Urban Myth general manager Bec Pannell founded the group, also known as SAYarts, in September last year after the company she was formerly general manager of, Urban Myth, went into liquidation the same month.
Urban Myth was based at the Goodwood Institute since 2012. SAYarts is in the old Lindisfarne School on Unley Rd, Unley.
“Nearly all of the kids came over from Urban Myth and we’ve got about 135 enrolled in classes at the moment,” Ms Pannell says.
“It’s gone back to how Urban Myth started off which is theatre workshops for kids, which is down to quality of the tutors like Sean Riley and Claire Glenn.”
Ms Glenn is the director of #nofilter, which her 12-14-year-old group started working on in April last year.
It focuses on people talking selfies and how people use filters to manipulate their own image.
“It’s quite absurd,” Ms Glenn says.
“It’s sort of Monty Python-esque.
“It’s irreverent, funny and you have a good time.”
Emily Liu, 14, was previously in Urban Myth and says it has been an interesting ride changing organisations and putting the play together.
“We just started with a whole mess of stuff and it’s all come together and soon it will be on stage.
“It’s kind of scary but cool at the same time.”
#nofilter premieres on Friday, March 13, at 6pm, at Holden Street Theatres, 34 Holden St, Hindmarsh, and continues on March 14 and 15, at 2pm.
Tickets: $20 for adults, $15 concession.
Details: adelaidefringe.com.au