Our History
Complete Works Theatre Company (CWTC) was founded in 1999 to produce and tour classic and contemporary theatre.
2011 - IT'S A WRAP!
2011 proved to be CWTC’s busiest yet! Our in-schools programs visited 260 Victorian secondary schools and 36,455 students attended 261 performances. Projects with arts, education and community organisations were launched and others completed. Here is a wrap up of the year's events.
Poetry Alive! was produced for The Song Room and delivered into ESL primary schools in metropolitan Melbourne in February.
CWTC is commissioned by Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to create Phat Poetry, an interactive poetry website targeted at middle years students (VELS Level 5) as part of the departments FUSE online resources. The site was delivered June 30th and went live in August.
Monkey Fights The Water Dragon - at the Knox Festival, Ferntree Gully Reserve, March 5th & 6th. CWTC and presenting partner Knox Community Arts Centre created an outdoor 20min theatrical event with performers from Circus Ruccis, Flipside Enterprise hip-hop crew and the Chinese Cultural Centre of Victoria’s Lion Dancers. Four performances were seen by 1200 festival goers.
Monkey - Journey to the West script development supported by the Arts Centre’s Family’s and Young People’s Sprout Development program. The treatment received two actors workshops and a presented second draft reading at the Abbotsford Convent on March 20th. Written by Director, Andrew Blackman and Assistant Director and dramaturge, Petra Kalive. A third draft script is submitted to the National PlayWriting Festival, 2012.
Cosi by Louis Nowra launches the VCE touring program traveling to schools and venues in regional and metro Melbourne.
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Phat Poetry, the show are toured in repertory to secondary schools throughout Victoria, 28th April - 28th October.
CWTC in conjunction with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne delivers the drama component for the L.H.Martin Institute's Women in Research Leadership workshop, Brisbane in May, Tertiary Leaders workshop, Melbourne in August and Senior Strategic Leaders workshop, Melbourne in November.
Director, Andrew Blackman is cast as Huxley, the paleontologist in Walking With Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular. Tours Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane and Auckland.
Cosi by Louis Nowra tours for VCE students in Term 3.
CWTC is commissioned by the Royal Flying Doctor Service to write and produce a play for touring to primary schools throughout Australia in 2012.
