New South Wales University Theatrical Society

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New South Wales University Theatrical Society (NUTS) is a student-run club at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

NUTS is an unincorporated body affiliated with the UNSW Student Guild. NUTS has close ties with other affliated clubs on campus that have a focus on theatre and performance, including Studio Four and the UNSW Revues. Today, NUTS ranks as one of the university's largest clubs.

Contents 1 History 2 Shows 3 Social events 4 Membership 5 Organisation 6 External links

[edit] History

NUTS was established in 1985 after the dissolution of the previous theatrical society on campus, DramaSoc.

[edit] Shows

Year Session Show 2006 2 Last Post * SPASMS * Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Robin Hood and the Singing Nun False Idol * 1 Bombshells The Last Five Years Domestic* Snow White* (with Studio Four) The Diary of Anne Frank 2005 2 Twelfth Night Find Me Death Kills * The Underpants Salomé SPASMS * 1 Cafe Studio One * Little Shop of Horrors Fireface Domestic * Hysteria 2004 2 Stomp Spasms * Speaking in Tongues Reservoir Dogs * Masterpieces * The Venetian Twins 1 Snoopy!!! — The Musical * Macbeth Suddenly Last Summer Domestic * [Insert Comedy] * Accidental Death of an Anarchist 2003 2 Vatzlav Fransziska To Hell with Being a Woman SPASMS * John Magruder Rides Again! * Metamorphosis 1 Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee The School for Wives After the Rain Steel Magnolias * Stone Soup Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? Noir Domestic * A Pair of Shorts (Double bill of The Real Inspector Hound and The Bald Prima Donna) Hippopotamus Dreams 2002 2 The Vagina Monologues The Crucible Popcorn SPASMS * City of Angels Huis Clos 1 The Women Alice * Domestic * The Zoo Story Politically Correct Bedtime Stories * The Man of Destiny 2001 2 Medea SPASMS * Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth Proof Whose Life is it Anyway? Hamlet Much Ado About Nothing 1 The Ghost Sonata Into The Woods (with SUDS) Così Domestic * (Billed as D2: The Mighty NUTS) For Fuck's Sake (Mensch Meier) Macbeth

* student written or adapted ** to be staged

NUTS produces, on average, 12 shows each year at various venues on the UNSW campus, primarily Studio One, a black box theatre. Major NUTS productions are staged in the larger Io Myers or Fig Tree Theatres for usually either one or two weeks. Minors are usually one week shows that are staged in Studio One and Mini-Majors are two week shows in Studio One.

The society produces a wide variety of plays each year - some of them written by club members. NUTS also stages two annual short play festival each year, called Domestic and SPASMS.

Domestic is an annual short play festival staged in Session 1 since it began in 2000. Writers are provided with a space and one day in which in write they're scripts. The plays are then cast, rehearsed for a week and then traditionally performed on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights before Good Friday.

SPASMS is an annual short play festival which was first produced in 1995 to coincide with the School of Media, Film and Theatre's second year scriptwriting course. It was created so that aspiring student playwrights could see their scripts performed onstage. Scripts are submitted to the producers, cast and rehearsed, and then staged for one week in a theatre on-campus.

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[edit] Membership

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[edit] External links

• NUTS - Official Website
• Theatre Australia listing