New Ghosts Theatre Company presents the IGNITE Collective
2024
sitting, screaming by Madelaine Nunn
2023
Girl Band by Katy Warner
2022
Hush by Ciella Williams
2020
girl friend by Natesha Somasundaram
2019
Good People by Katy Warner
Shandy’s Corner by Gretel Vella
New Ghosts Theatre Company’s main investment into new Australian plays has been through our IGNITE Collective initiative – a women-led, inclusive collective of theatre makers from across the nation, formed with the mission of putting new women-driven stories on Australian stages.
The IGNITE Collective was founded in 2019 by New Ghosts Theatre Company Artistic Director Lucy Clements, after she observed a dearth of female roles to match the emerging talent she was meeting in audition rooms, and four women auditioning for every one man.
To date, New Ghosts Theatre Company has developed and presented five new plays through the IGNITE Collective, which have played on stages across Sydney’s Kings Cross Theatre, Belvoir 25a, Flight Path Theatre, Riverside Theatres and Darwin’s Brown’s Mart Theatre, and created 25 new roles for young women performers. Our 2022 IGNITE play, Hush by Ciella Williams, was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, and the NT Literary Award (Drama category).
Blue Christmas | Good People | KXT | 2019 
Scratch Night | KXT | 2019 
girl friend | Belvoir 25a | 2020 
Shandy’s Corner | KXT | 2019 
Good People | KXT | 2019 
girl friend | Belvoir’s 25a | 2020 
Hush | Flight Path & Brown’s Mart Theatre | 2022 
Hush | Flight Path & Brown’s Mart Theatre | 2022 
Girl Band | Riverside Theatres | 2023 
Praise for IGNITE Collective
“Warner’s play is smart, fresh, funny and moving… when Warner and Clements find their momentum, Girl Band is electrifying. At its most moving, it could have you in tears; more often, it will make you laugh… Packaged pop empowerment might be a myth, but Girl Band shows where real strength lies: in solidarity, equity, and care for each other.”
SMH
“An unforgettable theatre experience. For the first two productions of IGNITE Collective, Good People and Shandy’s Corner promise many more unflinching and sincere works to come.”
Night Writes
“Lucy Clements’ direction of these two, one-act plays is faultless. The same can be said of the cast. Thoughtful rather than cynical, with warmth suffused into each, these stories substitute the typical schmaltz of Christmas and replace it with true heart.”
Audrey Journal
“New Ghosts Theatre Company succeeds on every level in this entirely apposite and modern approach. Not only by successfully enthralling viewers and leaving them keen to see the full-fleshed production, but also in providing a behind the scenes insight into a new Australian work which is made with such evident collaboration that a full team Q&A feels like required viewing.”
Reviews by Judith
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