Dream Sequence

NIDA Space Theatre, Sydney, 2026

A machine that turns spoken dreams into visual spectacularia.

Dream Sequence is an installation built around the dream well, a ring of hanging metal strands around a lit core, about two metres across. A visitor sits beside the well and tells a dream they remember. Software built by BBT answers with a few calm questions, then turns the telling into a moving image.

Each image joins the dreamscape around the well, and as more dreams come in, the images settle into one shared dream. Audiences sat and lay on low seating around the well, and could add a dream or simply watch, staying as long as they liked.

BBT developed the work through 2025 and presented it at a public showcase in NIDA's Space Theatre on 10 February 2026.

Public showcase, NIDA Space Theatre, 10 February 2026. Developed by BBT with support from the National Institute of Dramatic Art as part of the 2025 NIDA X project.

Creative team: Thomas De Angelis, Isabella Debbage, Ang Collins, Clemence Williams, Sam Boneham, Sarah Hadley, Christopher Baldwin, Thomas Bensley.

Photographs: Julia Firak.

TheatreConnect

Liverpool, since 2025

Theatre made with young people in Liverpool, in Sydney's south-west.

TheatreConnect is a drama program for young people aged 11 to 18 in South Western Sydney, many from migrant and refugee backgrounds. It is led by the CREATE Centre at the University of Sydney and funded by Multicultural NSW through the COMPACT Program. BBT artists are among the professional teaching artists who help deliver the workshops.

Each cycle begins with consultation with local schools, families and community groups. It then runs as a free, fully catered five-day workshop in the school holidays. On the first day the young people write their own ensemble agreement, which sets how the room works for the week. Teaching artists then lead ensemble-building, story-sharing and devising, and over the week the group builds a new piece from its own ideas. Student Support Assistants help with breaks and transitions.

The week ends on the Friday evening with a free public performance of the new work for families, friends and the local community. The program began with a pilot workshop at Moorebank Community Centre in October 2025 and has since run at Liverpool Powerhouse in Casula.

Track Works

Mortuary Station, Sydney, 2023

An opera about five commuters, staged inside Sydney's iconic Mortuary Station.

Track Works is a site-specific pastiche opera. Audiences stepped inside the heritage sandstone station in Chippendale to follow five commuters on a delayed trip home, among them Jess, a young lawyer worn down by corporate life. Their story was sung through arias from the operatic repertoire, rearranged into a new story about the way public transport puts everyone side by side.

The work was co-created by director Clemence Williams and dramaturg Thomas De Angelis, with a cast of five young opera singers. A work-in-progress showing was held at the station in November 2019. The full season ran from 21 November to 19 December 2023, at 50 minutes with no interval.

The season sold more than 15,000 tickets and was reviewed by Theatre Now, Stage Whispers, Theatre Travels, Cultural Binge and Honi Soit, among others.

Track Works was supported by PAYCE.

“the old gothic Mortuary Station near Sydney's Central is perfect for this short and artful pastiche opera.” Martin Portus, Stage Whispers

Creative team: Director and Co-Creator Clemence Williams. Co-Creator and Dramaturg Thomas De Angelis. Cast Anastasia Gall, Lily Harper, Michael Kaufmann, Sophie Mohler, Eden Shifroni. Music Director Josephine Gibson. Associate Director Emma Whitehead. Production Designer Emma White. Lighting Designer Morgan Moroney. Sound Designer Daniel Herten. Stage Manager Pip Haupt. Assistant Stage Manager Alicia Badger. Repetiteur Stacey Yang. Producers Isabella Debbage and Samuel Boneham.

Photographs: Phil Erbacher.

Spewy

Earp Distilling Co., Carrington, Newcastle, 2023

A Novocastrian rom-com, staged in a Newcastle distillery.

Al loves Newcastle. Nic hates it, but after Sydney chewed her up she has had to move back up the coast. Nearly ten years after high school they meet again by chance at the pub, and the old question returns: "God's Country" or "Spewcastle"?

Written by Newcastle playwright Ang Collins and directed by Adam Deusien, Spewy played at Earp Distilling Co. in Carrington as part of New Annual, the City of Newcastle's festival, from 27 to 30 September 2023. Barnaby Donaghy played Al and Madelaine Osborn played Nic. The season sold out.

Spewy is presented as part of City of Newcastle's New Annual festival, 2023.

Creative team: Ang Collins, Adam Deusien, Thomas De Angelis, Madelaine Osborn, Barnaby Donaghy, Sarah Sykes, Roni Wilkinson.

Photographs: Picture Cabinet.

ReGenerate

Marsfield and Lindfield, Sydney, 2023 to 2024

Free theatre-making workshops for young people on Sydney's North Shore.

ReGenerate was a free drama workshop program for young people aged 12 to 17 in the Ryde and Ku-ring-gai local government areas. Over a week, participants learned storytelling, improvisation, character work, writing, voice and movement, formed an ensemble and made a new show of their own. No experience was needed. The shows were site-specific, staged in the rooms where the workshops took place, with lights and sound.

The first workshop ran at St Anthony's Marsfield School hall from 2 to 7 October 2023, ending with a free performance for families and the local community on Saturday 7 October. The second ran at the Blair Wark VC Community Centre in Lindfield from 22 to 26 April 2024, with its performance on the Friday evening.

BBT designed and delivered ReGenerate with a team of teaching artists. In its final report to the funder, BBT recorded that parents saw gains in their children's confidence and creativity, and that the program received no complaints.

ReGenerate was made possible by funding from Sydney North Health Network through the NSW Ministry of Health, under its Connected Community Grants: Extreme Weather (Round 2B).

Regrowth

Bodalla, Tathra, Broulee, Narooma and Pambula, NSW South Coast, 2022 to 2023

Theatre made with young people in five South Coast towns after the 2019 to 2020 bushfires.

Regrowth was a series of week-long drama workshops for young people in bushfire-affected towns on the NSW South Coast. Between April 2022 and April 2023 we spent a week in each of five towns: in Bodalla Memorial Hall, the surf clubs at Tathra and Broulee, Narooma, and Pambula Town Hall.

In each town, young people aged 11 to 17 learned drama skills, shared stories about growing up there, and made a site-specific performance that they staged for the town at the end of the week. More than 70 young people took part.

Designed and delivered by Thomas De Angelis and Isabella Debbage of BBT, with The Family Place as lead coordinator. Evaluated by the CREATE Centre, University of Sydney. Funded through the NSW Government's Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund.

The Italians

Belvoir 25A, Sydney, 2022

An Italian-Australian family secret, from the inner city to the south-west.

It's la dolce vita for Joe right now. He's got a successful business, handsome boyfriend and wealthy future in-laws. But his plans for full-blown assimilation take a turn when his estranged cousin drops by and exposes an enormous family secret. Suddenly Joe is on a mission out to south-western Sydney, to the Italian-Australian heartland and the place where his family's story began.

The Italians is Danny Ball's first play. It grew out of a 2020 workshop that brought together young Italian-Australian theatre artists, from an original concept by Danny Ball and Thomas De Angelis. Directed by Riley Spadaro, it played in Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre as part of the 25A program from 23 October to 6 November 2022, with a cast of eight playing more than eighteen characters.

The season was reviewed by Theatre Travels, Theatre Thoughts, Honi Soit and Theatre Reds, among others.

Written by Danny Ball. Original concept by Danny Ball and Thomas De Angelis. Directed by Riley Spadaro. Produced by Mallocchio Productions and BBT for Belvoir 25A.

“This is a funny funny evening. The story has a happy ending and the audience leave on a high.” Kate Gaul, Theatre Travels

Photographs: Katherine Griffiths.

Disparate Scenes for Millennial Dreams

Meat Market Stables, Melbourne, 2019

Three new short plays about millennial anxiety, commissioned for Meat Market's Stables.

A triple bill of new short plays by Ang Collins, Lewis Treston and Fiona Spitzkowsky, commissioned for Meat Market's Stables in North Melbourne. This semi-immersive event moved audiences through different spaces in the venue and into three works about the anxieties, frustrations and insecurities of the millennial generation. The first part was set in an art gallery, with the audience standing among the exhibits.

Directed by Benjamin Sheen, with Thomas De Angelis as producer and dramaturg, the season ran from 31 May to 6 June 2019. It was presented with Periscope Productions and reviewed by ArtsHub and The Blurb.

“a brilliant new work that captures the spirit of millennial hope and despair” Arjun Rajkhowa, ArtsHub

Creative team: Written by Ang Collins, Lewis Treston and Fiona Spitzkowsky. Directed by Benjamin Sheen. With Dana McMillan, Conor Leach, Adam Garner, Toby Blome, Clarisse Bonello and Heather Riley. Producer and Dramaturg Thomas De Angelis. Production Manager Sian Halloran. Set and Costume Elia Bosshard. Sound Jess Keeffe. Lighting Marty Shlansky. Additional music CryClub.

The House at Boundary Road, Liverpool

Old 505 Theatre, Sydney, 2019

Four playwrights follow one house in Liverpool through five decades.

The House at Boundary Road, Liverpool puts the Australian immigrant experience centre stage, with a cast and creative team of more than 25. Written collaboratively by four playwrights, it follows a single house in Liverpool, Western Sydney, from the 1950s to the present: an Italian couple building it in 1953, a Filipino father and his sons in the 1970s, two Lebanese-Palestinian women returning to their childhood home around 2000, and a Nigerian-Australian teenager in 2018.

Thomas De Angelis conceived the play from his grandparents' experience after they arrived from Italy in 1952, and from watching the street change over sixty years. It was developed over 2018 and 2019, directed by Jessica Arthur, and played at the Old 505 Theatre in Newtown from 5 to 16 November 2019.

“Each segment is compact but powerful, for a meaningful encapsulation of our recent history.” Suzy Wrong, Suzy Goes See

Creative team: Written by Violette Ayad, Thomas De Angelis, Chika Ikogwe and Jordan Shea. Directed by Jessica Arthur. Assistant Director Tasnim Hossain. With Violette Ayad, Henrietta Ameavor, Monique Calarco, Jemwel Danao, Nancy Denis, Felino Delloso, Adam Di Martino, Jessica Phoebe Hanna, Mark Paguio, David Soncin, Angela Sullen and Mike Ugo. Production Design Keerthi Subramanyam. Lighting Kate Baldwin. Sound Clemence Williams. Stage Manager Saint Clair. Assistant Stage Manager Beatrix Brady.

Homesick

Old 505 Theatre, Sydney, 2019

Three generations of women under one roof.

Three generations of women collide in a single household. Sam has come home to Wallerawang after two hard years at a music college in New York, her mother Rachel is trying to keep her head above water, and her grandmother Eadie is slowly losing her marbles. Old family home videos, shown through live projection, run through the story.

Homesick was Sally Alrich-Smythe's first play. Directed by Claudia Osborne, it played at the Old 505 Theatre from 8 to 12 October 2019 as part of the theatre's FreshWorks Femme season of new work by women.

The Music gave the production four stars.

“Homesick is unmissable.” Sean Maroney, The Music

Creative team: Written by Sally Alrich-Smythe. Directed by Claudia Osborne. With Annie Byron, Deborah Galanos, Eliza Scott and Alex Stylianou. Production Design Emma White. Sound Angus Mills. Video Lucca Barone Peters. Stage Manager Saint Clair.

Chorus

Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney, 2019

Agamemnon is a pop star, and her world tour is over.

Agamemnon is a pop musician with a cult following and a deep secret. As she ends her sell-out world tour and heads back to the house that used to be her home, memories she has tried to keep buried begin to breathe again.

Ang Collins's new version of Aeschylus moves the myth to contemporary Sydney, with part of the story told by a chorus of fans and with live video on stage. Ella Prince played Agamemnon. Directed by Clemence Williams, who also composed the music and soundscape, it was presented by BBT with Red Line Productions and ran at the Old Fitz from 28 August to 21 September 2019.

It was reviewed by The Music, Suzy Goes See, Night Writes and BroadwayWorld.

“There is strength and resolve in this new work written by Ang Collins, directed by Clemence Williams.” Sean Maroney, The Music

Creative team: Written by Ang Collins. Directed by Clemence Williams. Dramaturgy Thomas De Angelis. With Jack Crumlin, Madelaine Osborn, Nicole Pingon, Ella Prince, Eliza Scott and Chemon Theys. Production Design Emma White. Lighting Veronique Bennett. Sound Clemence Williams. AV Director Sarah Hadley. Stage Manager Saint Clair.

Chamber Pot Opera

Sydney, Adelaide, Edinburgh, Saint Petersburg, 2016 to 2019

An opera performed in a public bathroom, in which three women meet for the first time.

Three women meet for the first time in a public bathroom. One is in an abusive relationship, one fears she came on too strong on a date, and one has just been promoted to her dream job. Together they sing of their histories and hopes through music from the operas of Puccini, Mozart and Bizet, using the whole room, from the sinks and mirrors to the hand dryers and stalls.

Chamber Pot Opera began in the level 2 women's powder room at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney in 2016. It went on to the Adelaide Fringe and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, Saint Petersburg in 2018, and the Playhouse ladies' bathroom at the Sydney Opera House in 2019, where it played to audiences of 42 at a time from 11 to 28 April.

More than 10,000 people have seen it.

“An inventive, heartfelt pastiche that brings the magic of opera to the everyday world.” Angus McPherson, Limelight

Creative team: Co-created by Keiren Brandt-Sawdy, Thomas De Angelis and Clemence Williams. Directed by Clemence Williams. With Sally Alrich-Smythe, Britt Lewis and Jessica Westcott. Music Director Keiren Brandt-Sawdy. Accompanist Darci Gayford.

Photographs: John Marmaras.

Unfinished Works

Seymour Centre, Sydney, 2016

An incisive portrait of contemporary Sydney and its culture, Unfinished Works explores the sacrifices we make in the pursuit of our life's work.

Frank Ralcoh is a famous painter who has never separated her life from her art. When she finds herself blocked and unable to paint, she begins to fear her whole body of work has been meaningless, and then some of it is stolen. She meets Isabel, a young student who wants to be an artist herself, and together they hatch a plan to test the power of their art.

Written by Thomas De Angelis and directed by Clemence Williams, Unfinished Works played at the Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, from 23 March to 2 April 2016. Lucy Goleby played Frank and Contessa Treffone played Isabel.

It was reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald, ArtsHub, BroadwayWorld and Sydney Arts Guide, among others.

“UNFINISHED WORKS is a thought provoking production that gives an insight into a creative world that many people don't consider” Jade Kops, Broadway World

Creative team: Written by Thomas De Angelis. Directed by Clemence Williams. With Deborah Galanos, Kyle Kazmarzik, Lucy Goleby, Contessa Treffone and Rhett Walton. Production Design Charlie Davis. Stage Manager Jen Parsonage.