At Windmill, we often have the privilege of being (one of) a child’s first experiences in the theatre. So, we want to make it count. We offer a range of opportunities for students and educators to take our stories further throughout the year.
In addition to providing dedicated schools’ performances and pricing for all South Australian seasons, we collaborate with an incredible community of artists, educators and creatives to create free resources that deepen engagement with our work.
Read on to discover what we’ve got coming up!
Study Guides
Education is at the core of what we do here at Windmill. We work with artists, industry-leading educators, hip designers and the brainiest software developers to create digital education resources for deep engagement with our stories. Our resources include exclusive behind the scenes content, dedicated study guides linked to the Australian Curriculum and (award-winning!) immersive digital experiences that plunge users into the ideas that inspire our original repertoire of work.
A digital campsite dedicated to the art of the pose. Led by our super camp drag queen camp guides, step into the tents of some of Australia’s finest purveyor’s of camp to learn about all things artifice, camp aesthetics and why fun and frivolity are serious business.
Creation Creation Mini Docs
In celebration of Creation Creation, we asked a team of artists and animators to work with a team of students to create their own documentary works that attempt to answer lives most burning questions… sort of.
Grug Storytime
A team of Windmill artists hit the books and read some of Ted Prior’s iconic original picture books so you can get to know Grug on the page before you meet him on the stage. Featuring Ellen Steele, Elizabeth Hay, Kidaan Zelleke and Ezra Juanta among others!
Girl Asleep: Digital Education Package
Girl Asleep was Windmill’s first foray into the world of screen. To celebrate, we’ve created a series of interactive resources that take you into the adaptation process and how we took our award-winning play from page to stage to screen.
Across Land & Sea
Muzafar Ali’s real life experience as a refugee to Australia inspired our show Amphibian. In this interactive experience, we blend documentary, illustration and Muzafar’s own photography to document his journey and create a portrait of his epic resilience.
Hans and Gret - AiR Project
After seeing Hans and Gret two groups of high school students worked with Director Corey McMahon to create their own stage adaptations if the classic Grimm Fairytale. Get an insight into their creative process and meet the stars of tomorrow.
Free Seats Program
Windmill’s Free Seats Program provides 15% of seats to every performance season free of charge to South Australian schools ranked 1-4 on the Department for Education’s Index of Disadvantage. This enables us to provide equitable access to the transformative impact that theatre and live performance has on young people.
At Windmill, we want to ensure that theatre remains accessible and caters to the needs of young people from all over South Australia. Access services, including Auslan interpretation and audio description, are available upon request to all schools’ performances.
In 2025, our Work Experience Program looks a little different, with applications open for a new initiative, Project Westall.
Two, week-long intensive workshops, available for up to 24 x Year 10 students from schools across Adelaide will be selected to take part in the very first development of our next new work.