Steps & Holes Theatre Company
in association with
the Australian Theatre for Young People
present

SOUL TRADING

By KATE WALDER

The year is 2079. Humans are created with gene selection technology, Artificial Intelligence is part of everyday life and children’s best friends are their Learning Bots. Except for Jerry. Jerry is not like the others. Neither is Neutron Finch, an exceptionally clever Learning Bot who seems to appear out of nowhere. He is smarter than most Bots, funnier and also possibly illegal. It doesn’t take long for the status quo to unravel and one night, Jerry and his classmates are summoned to the oval…

The Bots want souls. Specifically, theirs. It’s up to six young minds to solve the greatest existential question of all time within 24 hours. Will their soul-searching provide the answers they need to stop AI destroying the world as they know it?

– Winner of the 2019 ATYP Junior Foundation Commission
– Winner Best Original Work or Adaptation (2022 Canberra Ovation Awards)

THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE NSW GOVERNMENT THROUGH CREATE NSW



TICKET DETAILS

Season 2023

  • Preview: 6 September
  • Season: 7 – 10 September

Times

  • 7.00pm Wednesday – Saturday
  • 1pm Saturday – Sunday

DURATION

  • 70 Minutes (No Interval)

LOCATION

  • The Rebel Theatre
  • Pier 2/3, 13A Hickson Road,
    Dawes Point, NSW 2000, Eora Country

AGES

  • 8+

Pricing

  • Preview $25
  • General Admission $35

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer

Kate Walder

PRODUCER

Emily Buxton

Video + Installation Artist

Laura Turner

Dramaturg

Jane Fitzgerald

Composer

Patrick Haesler

Production Manager

Heidi Atkins

Production Assistant

Dan Maher

Video Mentee

Adetokunbo Abioye

WITH

Trix Bowditch,
Eloise Bracher,
Ewan Buchanan-Constable,
Aria Calabro,
Archie Carfax-Foster,
Jeffrey Dimi,
Araminta Dusseldorp,
Finn Dusseldorp,
Charlie Griffin,
Addie Houston,
Saskia Munro,
Annabelle Obermeder,
Ava Palfreyman,
Max Stores,
Tahlia Sturzaker,
Jordan Thompson,
Jacob Townsend,
Felicity Yang, with Aimee Horne as the voice of T5000 and Miss ABC.

DIRECTOR / Movement Director

Kate Walder

Assistant Director

Jestika Chand

SOUND DESIGNER

Tegan Nicholls

Stage Manager

Dylan Ford

Set Realiser / Costume Designer

Meg Anderson

Lighting Designer

Benjamin Brockman

Custom Costume Makes

Hailley Hunt

Lighting Operator

Taryn Zentrich

IMAGE

Justin Stambouliah & Fifty One Watts