Elysium Theatre (established 1999), is an owner operated theatre company championing small scale productions. We produce and present our own work as well as presenting professional touring theatre productions. We support Australian theatre and its artists.
Elysium Theatre also offers hands-on, 'brown paper puppetry' workshops suitable for holiday programs. A holiday program is perfect for developing puppetry skills and can be tailored to suit your organisation. The program is suitable for young adolescents and up. The preferred group sizes are multiples of three; each puppet requires three people to operate it. The hands-on workshops are guided, culturally sensitive, creatively rich and lots of fun. For a more formal approach, ten, two-hour, weekly workshops can evolve into an original production. Each session builds on the skills developed in preceding lessons. Through fun and laughter, serious topics can be addressed.
Theatre is a tremendous vehicle with which to reflect on, to question and to comment on the many dimensions of our world.
You are invited to approach each performance as an adventure into the unknown.
Elysium Theatre receives no government or philanthropic financial support. All contributions, big and small, make a significant impact on our capacity to present theatre to our community.
Elysium Theatre also offers hands-on, 'brown paper puppetry' workshops suitable for holiday programs. A holiday program is perfect for developing puppetry skills and can be tailored to suit your organisation. The program is suitable for young adolescents and up. The preferred group sizes are multiples of three; each puppet requires three people to operate it. The hands-on workshops are guided, culturally sensitive, creatively rich and lots of fun. For a more formal approach, ten, two-hour, weekly workshops can evolve into an original production. Each session builds on the skills developed in preceding lessons. Through fun and laughter, serious topics can be addressed.
Theatre is a tremendous vehicle with which to reflect on, to question and to comment on the many dimensions of our world.
You are invited to approach each performance as an adventure into the unknown.
Elysium Theatre receives no government or philanthropic financial support. All contributions, big and small, make a significant impact on our capacity to present theatre to our community.
ELYSIUM: Also known as the Elysian Fields
In Greek mythology, a land of perfect peace and happiness. Elysium was a land at the farthest and westernmost edge of the world to which the great heroes were carried, body and soul, and made immortal. There they were free to pursue their favorite activities, and worries and illness were unknown.
In Roman mythology, Elysium was a part of the underworld and a place of reward for the virtuous dead. For some it was only a temporary paradise. At the edge of its green meadows flowed the Lethe, from which all souls returning to life in the world above had to drink.
Those who dwell in Elysium exercise upon grassy playing-fields or wrestle friendly on yellow sands; some dance and others sing or chant poems. All these live in groves and make their beds on river-banks and may wander in luminous plains and green valleys.
In Greek mythology, a land of perfect peace and happiness. Elysium was a land at the farthest and westernmost edge of the world to which the great heroes were carried, body and soul, and made immortal. There they were free to pursue their favorite activities, and worries and illness were unknown.
In Roman mythology, Elysium was a part of the underworld and a place of reward for the virtuous dead. For some it was only a temporary paradise. At the edge of its green meadows flowed the Lethe, from which all souls returning to life in the world above had to drink.
Those who dwell in Elysium exercise upon grassy playing-fields or wrestle friendly on yellow sands; some dance and others sing or chant poems. All these live in groves and make their beds on river-banks and may wander in luminous plains and green valleys.