Well, we're done with our first week of Spent and it was a trolley load of FUN! There's only four more chances for you to experience this unique, clever and captivating work. Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 May (8pm nightly plus a 2pm matinee on Saturday)! Without giving too much away...here's a teaser trailer to excite and ignite your curiosity! #papercut #spent #performance #theatre #thestore #newcastle #live

Paper Cut is seeking front-of-house volunteers for our upcoming production “Spent”. We are looking for a handful of keen beans who would like to gain some valuable experience working with emerging professional theatremakers. Our FOH volunteers will report to the front-of-house manager and be responsible for greeting and ushering audience members at the venue, distributing programs and maintaining the front-of-house area. The time commitment would be between 6 – 12 hours over

Today kicked off our first weekend of rehearsals for 'Spent'! (We don't always rehearse on the hill overlooking Newcastle beach...we just wanted to make you all jealous!) In just over 4 weeks this playful and incisive production premieres in a soon-to-be-revealed extra special location! We're really excited about this show and we think you will be too. Stay tuned for further details. #newcastlebeach #papercut #performance #spent #theatre

Another very long day in the studio! We began with the very difficult task of trying to insert a newly devised section into the exisiting structure of the work. This can be a really hard thing to do when you've already got a show that works. After much (polite) argument we decided on a place to put it and we look forward to seeing how our choice is received by the audience at our upcoming showing. After many hours of development and strenuous rehearsal we treated ourselves to

A really long day today, working until 9.00pm! We started plodding through from the beginning of the show to figure out how everything fits together with the new and the old. It's a tricky business and our brains are definitely tired. We also spent some time developing another new section relating to advertising, and how we are encouraged to see products as an expression of ourselves. Working on text development late at night is probably not the best idea... but we got there

Our second day of mentoring with dance theatre artist and choreographer Cadi McCarthy and there are more than a few sore muscles around... The two days working with Cadi have been amazing. So invigorating and inspiring! Today we worked on a fight scene and spent hours pushing, shoving, face palming and hair pulling. We also re-worked the trolley ballet section of Spent. Seriously, shopping will never be the same again after you see this show! #spent #papercut #theatre #perfo

Today we had our first day of workshops with our mentor Cadi McCarthy. Cadi is a dance theatre artist and choreographer, and was the Artistic Director of Buzz Dance Theatre in Perth from 2009-2013. We are so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such a seasoned professional on this project! The day was exhausting but very rewarding. Cadi provided us with movement-based tasks to complete that helped us to extend and develop our existing ideas for the show. It's great t

Tamara got a parking fine today! In other news...we finally got away from the table and up on our feet. It's always difficult to take that leap away from the safety of discussion and generating ideas and actually get up and make those ideas real. But, after a bit of yoga and a few rounds of Word Tennis we were primed for a very productive day. #papercut #theatre #spent #performance

Today Lucy and Tamara studied 'trolleyology'. Check it out for yourself! It's a real thing. Some of the things we learned were quite astonishing.It's amazing how much strategy is behind the things we take for granted every day... We also had a good listen to the sound sketches created by Fox Control for Spent and made notes ahead of our meeting with Huw Jones tomorrow. Sounding really amazing! #papercut #spent #theatre #performance

Day Two began with a 90's stretching party (we're mysterious girls, you know), and then got a bit violent. Lucy practiced tripping Sarah and kicking Tamara, Sarah practiced leaping over Lucy, and Tamara practiced falling over. We also experimented with sketches for the Spent soundtrack from our sound artist Huw Jones (Fox Control). We’re really looking forward to meeting with him later in the week. It’s sounding excellent already. After going through the feedback yesterday, w