The Storey Players is a charitable organisation whose principal mission is empowering disadvantaged kids through drama workshops and storytelling activities to strengthen their self-confidence and increase their literacy skills

The Storey Players is a charitable organisation whose principal mission is empowering disadvantaged kids through drama workshops and storytelling activities to strengthen their self-confidence and increase their literacy skills.

Much of our work is undertaken in remote Indigenous communities in outback Australia and includes working with kids to create theatre from their stories about community and strengthening their self-confidence and literacy skills for the future.

Kids from one of the Storey Players project in performance costume

Our unique drama and storytelling workshops have been developed and refined over many tours through the outback and working with remote communities who rarely receive such creative input.

Since 2017 we have visited over 25 remote Indigenous and outback communities, facilitated our drama workshops and performed The Forgotten Warrior to over 2000 disadvantaged children!

A Storey Players performace in full flight

This important work is dependent on contributions from the public. Please consider making a donation to enable us to continue to bring these unique opportunities to kids who would otherwise miss out.

2022 Tour..

Multiple destinations in Northern, Central and North-Western Australia

Our massive 2022 tour took in dozens of locations across Australia, creating projects with kids in remote communities. See some of the highlights below.

West Arnhem Land

We were invited to visit West Arnhem Land and work with three different communities to record Dreaming stories in the Bininj Kunwok languages of the region. It was a very profound time for our team and the experiences we had and people we met will live with us forever. The communities we worked in were Mamadawerre, Manmoyi and Kabulwarnamyo which are all located on the West Arnhem Land plateau. The people were very welcoming and willing to share their music, stories and songs with us during the visit and the results can be seen in the short films below.

❝Thanks again Simon and Tina for everything you did across our three schools! The kids and community rewatch the films over and over again. They are all just so proud of the process and final products. Really looking forward to having you all back here next year.❞

Jodi Valluk - Senior Teacher, Nawarddeken Academy West Arnhem Land

Dajarra

The workshops went very well this week with an average attendance of 16+ kids. We played a variety of self-confidence boosting games and began reading and creating the story for the production of How the Birds got their Colours which will be performed next Thursday in the community. The kids really enjoyed making their masks for the different birds and loved the first day of filming!

Watch our performance of How the Birds Got Their Colours below.

Cloncurry

We arrived in Cloncurry and performed The Forgotten Warrior at Cloncurry State School and St Joseph's School. The students at both schools loved the show and offered lots of feedback afterwards including:

❝This was a very powerful production that addressed many truths about the history of Australia's first Peoples. Thank you so much for bringing this to us! The intro at the beginning was good to set the theme and make the story more understandable. It made me think more deeply about people who went to war.❞

The original performance space at St Joseph's was far too bright for the film, but fortunately the local church came to the rescue and offered their space for the show. Have a look at one of the most original performance spaces for our show, yet!

A map of the upcoming Storey Players tour 2022

Burketown

We did a week of workshops and created four short films with a great bunch of children at Burketown State School. Listen to some of the feedback below.

Eromanga

At Eromanga we performed workshops and recorded How the Birds Got Their Colours. Here's some feedback on our work from Michelle Moyle, Principal of Eromanga State School.

❝I've just finished watching the movie for about the fifth time. So love the movie. So great to see some kids shining in such a way that I don't see in the classroom.❞