ActNow Theatre

This comprised a series of monologues delivered online, written and performed in conjunction with the State Theatre Company of South Australia.

The company initially created street theatre performances, on political issues such as the incarceration of Adelaide-born Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.

[35][36][37][38] The projects involve participatory theatre techniques, which empower audiences to change aspects of the performances and be active contributors and commentators to broader social movements.

[39] In 2023, ActNow is running theatre workshops in primary schools across South Australia, aimed at showing the impact of racism, and why people need to be kind to one another.

The project was developed through collaboration with queer communities and artists in Taipei, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and presented at the Asia TOPA festival in March 2020.

[41] Co-director Edwin Kemp Attrill said:[43]The performance asks the audience to use their phones to answer questions anonymously, in that way we have made a representation of the internet within the theatre, where everyone is able to comment and contribute to the show.

It keeps the audience active, but it also asks them to reflect on their own experiences, even if they haven’t used dating or hook-up apps before, they're still able to reflect on the way that the online world has affected their lives.In 2020, when the state was under COVID pandemic restrictions, ActNow Theatre partnered with State Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA) to create Decameron 2.0,[44] a project inspired by 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

[45] The original novellas encompassed 100 stories told by 10 young people and their servants who fled to the countryside of Florence, Italy, to escape the Plague.

In Decameron 2.0, 100 stories of contemporary South Australian characters were commissioned and filmed over 10 weeks in Adelaide, and streamed between 10 July 2020 and 11 September 2020.

[52] These monologues by First Nations writers included West’s Teahrnah, played by Elaine Crombie, about a mother being pulled over by the police while driving to the supermarket, making references to the murder of George Floyd with the line "I can't breathe".

[53] Other artists involved in Decameron 2.0 included Mitchell Butel (artistic director of STCSA), Elena Carapetis, Yasmin Gurreeboo, Teddy Hodgeman, Matt Hyde, Trevor Jamieson, Carmel Johnson, Phillip Kavanagh, Edwin Kemp Attrill, Finegan Kruckemeyer, Jack Buckskin, Anna Steen, Verity Laughton, Martha Lott, Sarah Peters, Jacqy Phillips, Susan Prior, Rory Walker, and Manal Younus.