SUPPORT THE REBELLION
School of War is a new theatrical horror/comedy about young people who have had enough of ruling-class adults despoiling the place.
This AusArt Day, 22 October, St Martins is raising funds to bring School of War from development to full production.
In a dystopian world, the adult ruling class abandons all social responsibility to burn the future, leaving generations of exploited children to adapt to a brutal curriculum of survival. Spanning one hundred years, School of War follows children who have been abandoned by their protectors: the adults who traded care for conscription, drafting their youth into domestic and biological servitude.
The ultimate battle isn’t in a war zone, but in the hearts and minds of a discarded generation piecing together a new future from a lost past. The ‘school of war’ is a culture of civilisational brutality and engineered amnesia that leaves its citizens for dead, and longing for something like a rebirth.
And it’s very funny!
The young people use cunning, passion and sheer grunt-power to deliver more than a glimmer of hope in the end.
YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP:
→ Pay artists and creative collaborators
→ Design and build sets
→ Source and make props and costumes
→ Pay for lights, sound and technical production
→ Cover rehearsal costs
→ Bring live music into the work
→ Get the production in front of an audience
Our AusArt Day goal is $25,000
Film by Understudy Films.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.