Stepping Out is a 1980 Australian documentary film, created by Chris Noonan, that follows a mentally handicapped theater group in the leadup to their first public performance at the Sydney Opera House.
[2] Stepping Out was largely filmed in 1979 in Gore Hill in Sydney, following residents of the Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home.
It features workshops and rehearsals, led by Aldo Gennaro, for a series of performances of the shows The Prince, and Life, Images and Reflections at Sydney Opera House.
"[4] In his Canberra Times Dougal McDonald touches on the aftermath saying "what happened after the film was completed is not so much crazy as nasty.
[5] Julian Lewis in the Australian Jewish News writes "Stepping Out entirely justifies the U.N.'s choice of it as the official film for the 'Year of the Disabled'"[6]