Dare to Dream is about the transformative power of theatre at its most simple, most raw, most potent.

The JUTE Theatre Company’s Dare to Dream initiative’s aim is to tour our play (I Gut This Feeling - by Isaac Drandic) and week-long residency workshops, complemented by a wrap-around program to promote early intervention, easier and better access to support networks for people at risk, to 5 communities each year.

This innovative play covers sensitive topics, with a particular focus on addressing and preventing childhood trauma. Our creative First Nations Touring Crew, has been trained by Bravehearts, to enable them to identify people at risk, providing emotional support and a link to a bespoke wrap-around support program.

This new educational performance and workshop theatre program has the potential to influence change in children, young people, and their families in the regional and remote communities we visit.

Nothing else like it currently exists in Australia.

Unfortunately, regional and remote touring programs are expensive due to the huge distances, fuel costs, accommodation costs, we cover each tour. To realise next year's tour, we need your help! Please donate what you can; every donation matters. JUTE is DGR registered so donations to us are tax deductible. 

Thank you for your support.

About I Gut This Feeling by Isaac Drandic

I Gut This Feeling is written as a two-hander touring show and presented to students ranging from Grade 4 to Grade 9. The work has been commissioned by JUTE Theatre Company as part of the Dare to Dream initiative’s, Safer Children Safer Communities work program.

Synopsis

I Gut This Feeling is a clever and comical theatre experience to entertain and educate audiences, both young and old.

Djirra is a young girl just trying to make her way safely back home through a strange world. But where is home? Which path to take? She has no idea!

Along the way she meets some very odd creatures; a crafty water spirit who tries to lure her to the water’s edge, a roaring Hairyfella who seems so scary but maybe he isn’t, and a peculiar old cook who is making stew in the middle of nowhere with crazy ‘secret’ ingredients. Djirra even gets messages from a little lizard! All of them have advice for her, but who should she trust?

Why this performance?

Stories exist to help explain and describe the world we live in. Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories are told to ensure caution is taken in unsafe situations; transmit and maintain culture and lore; embed and impart Indigenous epistemologies- ways of knowing and being, orally, through music, song, dance, and the visual arts.

Isaac Drandic’s I Gut This Feeling uses these techniques with a creative mix of fantastical fairy tale characters from around the world making a modern moral tale that delivers the serious message of staying safe. This is a play about how to safely navigate the weird and wonderful world using your instincts. It’s about working out who to trust. It’s about how to trust yourself.