Scotch Literature Festival 2007 > Young Australia Workshop
Young Australia Workshop
Dennis Clare and Tony Williams have been performing individually and together for the past
seventeen years. MATES is the latest addition to their programmes for schools, which include MIMEORAMA,
GULP, WHEN VEGETABLES ATTACK and HEROES. Their collaborative works Water Closet Productions have been performed
in pubs, theatres, festivals and concert venues throughout Australia. Dennis has worked extensively overseas,
returning to Australia for World Expo in 1988. He can be seen regularly performing at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Tony Williams has fifteen years of songwriting and singing experience and has two albums available and he has
had chart success in South Africa.
Mates
(Year 7 Performance)
Mates...no matter who you are, there's one thing for sure...you've got to have mates! Yep!
Mates who'll stick by you through thick and thin, mates to hang out with. Mates to share your deepest
secrets with. Mates who'll always help bail you out when you need them. Mates, who one day we might look
back upon with great fondness. Yep! One thing's for sure...we all need mates!
Tony and Dennis like cars, golf, fishing and mime. Tony and Dennis are mates...buddies, chums, pals,
amigos, chaps or whatever you want to call them.
With their special brand of humour, using mime, original music and physical theatre, Tony Williams
and Dennis Clare head off in search of mateship.
Heroes
(Year 8 Performance)
HEROES... love them or hate them we all seem to need them. Heroes are found in pop figures or
sporting legends, even movie stars. In whatever area of culture, heroes abound. We look to them as role models,
we place them on pedestals and we cut them down when they fail us or become too tall. Tony and Dennis go in
search of heroes and on the way have lots of fun.