Description
THEMES: Balance & Moderation, Human Connection, Digital Addiction
LENGTH: 90 Minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 8
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR : 2022
Parents of Australia! Are you sick of your kids being glued to their phones? Do you wish they could leave their devices behind forever? Well, you just may need to sign them up for Camp Reboot… Reboot is a comedic satire that follows a group of tech-obsessed teenagers, including a social media influencer, a hacker and a gamer, who enter Camp Reboot, a special new Summer Camp designed to detox kids from all forms of technology.
THEMES: Leadership, Helplessness, Agency
LENGTH: 90 Minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 9
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR : 2020
Antarctica. A blizzard. Nine school kids are stranded in a shack, on the bottom of the world, with a sinister force circling outside… Our young explorers, in the ghostly footsteps of Ernest Shackleton, question their place in the natural and social order of the world as the limits of their courage are pushed into uncharted waters. Young people are being called on to lead like never before, but how do they learn to step up, when sometimes just existing is hard enough?!
THEMES: Humanity, Artificial Intelligence, Wonder
LENGTH: 60 Minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 12
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR : 2019
The year is 2079. Artificial Intelligence and humans coexist harmoniously. That is, until the appearance of an exceptionally clever AI named Neutron Finch. The AIs now know about and want souls. It’s then up to the ‘secret six’ to solve the greatest existential question of all time within a week. Will their soul-searching provide the answers they need to stop the AIs becoming humanity’s worst nightmare?
April Aardvark by Nathaniel Moncrieff
THEMES: Bullying, Social Media, Communication
LENGTH: 90 Minutes
NO. OF CHARACTERS: 12
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR: 2018
EZ and his gang of bullies have created a fake social media account to inflict torment and misery on their fellow students. The account’s name, “April Aardvark”, echoes through the halls with fear and confusion. The gang is smugly satisfied with the results, until the day a student shows up to class claiming to be April Aardvark. She is the living, breathing manifestation of the account – a mean, obscene insult machine. But is she really who she claims to be? And if so, how can she be stopped?
Charlie Pilgrim (Or A Beginner’s Guide To Time Travel) by Sam O’Sullivan
THEMES: Self Acceptance, Science Fiction, Cooperation
LENGTH: 90 Minutes
NO.OF CHARACTERS: 12
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR: 2017
Have you ever wanted to change the past? Charlie Pilgrim has. And with the prototype of her time machine – The Mobius – ready for a test run, she was hoping to get her chance. Unfortunately, starting up the machine has accidentally created a closed time loop that adds a new Charlie every twenty-four hours.
THEMES: Individuality, Friendship, Responsibility
LENGTH: 60 Minutes
NO.OF CHARACTERS: 14
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR: 2016
Bridie doesn’t tend to stand out. It’s halfway through her first year of high school and nothing seems to be changing. That is until, a box mysteriously appears on her bed. Attached to it is a card that reads, “It’s time to become who you were born to be Wonder Fly. The Red Wasp strikes midnight tomorrow.”
Fight With All Your Might The Zombies of Tonight by Matthew Whittet
THEMES: Individuality, Friendship, Zombies
LENGTH: 60 Minutes
NO.OF CHARACTERS: 11
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR: 2015
Alex is a twelve-year-old with a keen eye and a wit to match. She’s been watching everyone at school for the last few days like an eagle… or maybe a hawk, and something’s not right. Everyone is acting weird. The writing’s on the wall. She knows what’s happening. They’re all turning into zombies.
THEMES: Sustainability, Responsibility, Authority, Childhood
LENGTH: 90 Minutes
NO.OF CHARACTERS: 7
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR: 2014
The Trolleys are a gang of six living on the outskirts of the city. They need their light jars to survive the dangerous place they live in but their lights are fading fast and no one knows why. It’s up to Savage Kim and her fiery, soulful, smart, skittish (and sometimes silly) gang to embark on a dangerous journey to figure it out. All they know is that they don’t have much time and if they fail they too will disappear. They will be Dusters.
Luke Lloyd: Alienoid by John Armstrong
THEMES: Alienation, Bullying, Abandonment
LENGTH: 90 Minutes
NO.OF CHARACTERS: 9
ATYP COMMISSION YEAR: 2013
Luke is smart, funny, shy and highly imaginative – but has no friends at school. In fact, he feels like he’s not even of the same species as the other kids in his class. But that isn’t surprising, because he’s not. Luke’s father (whom he has never met) came from a distant planet – which makes Luke half human, half alien. He’s an ‘alienoid’. Which explains a lot, thinks Luke.