- Latest News
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- Hilde Osland (OW2004): Almost an Idol
- News Items - 26 January 2012
- Wesley College’s Hilde Osland (OW2004) has not let being a relatively shy performer stop her from pursuing her dreams. The 24-year-old made it to the semi-finals of Norway Idol after moving there for a year to work but didn’t make it into the finals of the competition.
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- Moubray Street Precinct Redevelopment
- News Items - 05 November 2011
- Adamson Hall will be completely redeveloped into an air-conditioned performance space with tiered seating, a new stage area, a fly tower, backstage facilities and a new audiovisual control room, along with spaces for smaller productions.
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- Bayside Story: Josh Piterman (OW2003)
- News Items - 17 June 2011
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During a break from his starring role in West Side Story, Josh Piterman is reflecting on his "lightbulb moment", the decision to pursue a career in acting.
At Wesley College, tennis and football were his passions, but when in year 12 he won a role as Tyrone Jackson in the school's performance of Fame and then as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar ("A good role for a Jewish boy," he says), his fate was sealed.
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- ATC Director - A Hann for all seasons
- News Items - 29 May 2011
- In 1980 Hann and colleague Tony Scanlon, also still at the school, set up what became the Adamson Theatre Company (ATC). Before then they had organised school plays, often with Lauriston Girls' School, and the theatre company took it to the next level. Each year the ATC produced at least four plays, including two musicals, offering terrific opportunities for many students. In 2011 the company will present Oh! What a Literary War!, Cloudstreet, The Silver Sword, The Pirates of Penzance, Kiss Me Kate, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Aladdin Jr. "It's primarily for the school community but we do attract quite a lot of interest from outside," Hann says. "We have had an extraordinarily large number of students in the last 20 to 25 years who have gone on to professional theatre careers."
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- Don't Miss ATC Alumni in Ten's Offspring
- News Items - 07 May 2011
- Don't miss Adamson Theatre Company alumni Jane Harber (OW2002) and Lachy Hulme (OW1988) play Zara Perkich and Dr Martin Clegg, respectively, in Channel Ten's Offspring: Season 2. Offspring will begin to air 16 May 2011 and will run for 13 weeks.
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- ATC Patron receives Green Room Lifetime Achievement Award
- News Items - 30 March 2011
- The 2010 Green Room Awards were presented on March 21 2011, at a ceremony hosted by Julia Zemiro at The Famous Spiegeltent at the Arts Centre, Melbourne. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Mr Carrillo Gantner AO, Chairman of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, former Artistic Director of Playbox Theatre and Patron of the Adamson Theatre Company at Wesley College St Kilda Road.
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- Launch of Our Archives Online
- News Items - 23 March 2011
- The Adamson Theatre Company is continuing through 2011 to build its online archives. These will provide a digital journey back into our past productions, as well as an insight into how the Company has established itself as one of the principal cultural bodies at the St Kilda Road campus. Our history is rich and increasingly deep, and we are determined that the spirit and energy of the past that has inspired so many productions remains immediately accessible in the present. More than anything, it is great fun to look back over so many wonderful performances.
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- ATC Bravo Award 2010
- News Items - 23 March 2011
- The Adamson Theatre Company’s Bravo award was implemented in 2009 and made possible by the generous donation of a Wesley family. It is offered annually to a Year 12 student who has made an outstanding contribution to the Company, either onstage, or in another aspect of production. The student is expected to have understood and supported the ethos of the Company over a period of time, and helped promote its aspirations for excellence and professionalism in all facets of theatre. Judged by the directors of the productions, the Bravo carries a cash prize of $1000 for the winners to use as they see fit in furthering their interest in the performing arts after leaving school. While the Bravo is available annually, it will only be awarded if the students under consideration have consistently exhibited the highest qualities.
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- Welcome to Season 2011
- News Items - 23 March 2011
- The enduring appeal of theatre is its ability to tell stories, to sweep us up in an imagined world packed with characters who behave in ways we recognise and understand. For a couple of hours we join their world, and this is invariably a deeply humanising experience. All art brings us closer to who we are, and what we envisage we might be, and for a moment or two in a darkened theatre we lose ourselves in the lives of others.
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- Welcome to Season 2010
- News Items - 08 February 2011
- Welcome to a new season of plays and musicals from the Adamson Theatre Company at Wesley College St Kilda Road. Please be assured once again of our commitment to uncompromising production standards showcasing the talents of the several hundred students who will create theatre magic for you throughout the coming year.
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- Production of the Year
- News Items - 23 August 2010
- The Music Theatre Guild of Victoria is a not-for-profit organisation for the ongoing support, encouragement and development of non-professional music theatre in the state of Victoria. The Adamson Theatre Company last year received nominations in six of the nine possible categories in the Junior Section for our production of Hair and The Wizard of Oz.
