Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons are firing, rewiring, and colliding, creating the whirlwind of change that makes the teenage years both exhilarating and overwhelming.
A new youth production, Brainstorm, dives straight into that chaos with honesty, humour, and heart.
Created in collaboration with renowned neuroscientists Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Dr Kate Mills, Brainstorm is a groundbreaking theatrical investigation into how teenagers think, feel, and behave – and why their brains are designed by evolution to be this way. The script serves as a blueprint for a company of young people to shape with their own real-life stories, and that’s exactly what a passionate group of local teens has been doing.
‘Teenagers are navigating enormous internal changes, and as a community we often forget how intense that can feel,’ said Byron Youth Theatre’s Sally Davis, who has been volunteering her time to guide and direct the cast’
‘This play gives young people a voice and invites adults to better understand the incredible complexity of the teenage brain. We need more awareness, more compassion, and more space for them to be heard. And most importantly to be accepted exactly as they are’
Brainstorm is on Friday, 5 December at 7.30pm and Saturday, 6 December at 2pm and 7pm.
Davis says the cast has poured their truth into the work, making it a powerful experience.
Ticket are available on the Byron Youth Theatre’s FaceBook page or www.trybooking.com/DGVVJ.
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