Windmill Theatre Company

Education Program

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!

2024/5 Education Season

Grug and the Rainbow

Sydney Opera House season | December 2024

From the top of a burrawang tree to the end of a rainbow.

After a rainy day, Grug heads outside to see a beautiful rainbow striped across the sky.

In a magical adaptation of Ted Prior’s beloved picture books, Grug and the Rainbow sees our grassy little friend embark on an epic adventure to bask in the colours of the illusive rainbow.

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Moss Piglet

Regional South Australian Tour 2025 | Weeks 5-7

An explosive portrait of the tardigrade – a microscopic critter that is basically indestructible. For Year 1 – Year 4 on resilience and how even the tiniest things can be the strongest.

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Little Board

Applications open January 2025

Launching in 2025, the Little Board aims to empower young members as leaders and artists to articulate opinions, enhance leadership skills and foster a sense of ownership, as they use their voice to help shape our future operations.

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.

Come learn with us.

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Interactive Resources

Camp Windmill

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.

For more information, please send us an email.

Access and Inclusion

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.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Work Experience

Details of our 2025 Work Experience Program will be released in early 2025.

Subscribe to our education e/news here or check back in later for more details.

Professional Learning

Windmill hosts professional development workshops for educators periodically throughout the year.

For upcoming opportunities, subscribe to our education e/news here.

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