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Youth production, Brainstorm, kicks off April 10

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A new youth play about the teenage brain takes to the Mullumbimby Drill Hall stage this week, and dives straight into that chaos with honesty, humour and heart.

Organisers say, ‘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 director Sally Davis.

‘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.’

Davis says the cast has poured their truth into the work, creating a powerful and deeply personal performance.

‘Step inside the teenage mind. Brainstorm is a youth theatre production that blends science and storytelling, revealing why adolescence is chaotic, emotional and full of risk. Performed by a talented ensemble of local teenagers, the play weaves cutting-edge neuroscience with real stories of friendship, family and growing up.

‘It’s a show for anyone who has loved a teenager – or who remembers what it was like to be one’.

Tickets available here

Drill Hall session time
7pm Friday 10 April,
7pm Saturday 11 April,

1pm Sunday 12 April



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