New South Wales University Theatrical Society

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The current NUTS logo, which was designed by Rob Thwaites, a member, in 2000

New South Wales University Theatrical Society (NUTS) is a student-run club at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

NUTS is an unincorporated body affiliated with the UNSW Student Guild. NUTS has close ties with other affliated clubs on campus that have a focus on theatre and performance, including Studio Four and the UNSW Revues. Today, NUTS ranks as one of the university's largest clubs.

1 History
2 Shows
3 Social events
4 Membership
5 Organisation
6 External links

[edit] History

NUTS was established in 1985 after the dissolution of the previous theatrical society on campus, DramaSoc.

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[edit] Shows

Year	Session	Show
2006	2	Last Post *
		SPASMS *
		Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
		Robin Hood and the Singing Nun
		False Idol *
	1	Bombshells
		The Last Five Years
		Domestic*
		Snow White* (with Studio Four)
		The Diary of Anne Frank
2005	2	Twelfth Night
		Find Me
		Death Kills *
		The Underpants
		Salomé
		SPASMS *
	1	Cafe Studio One *
		Little Shop of Horrors
		Fireface
		Domestic *
		Hysteria
2004	2	Stomp
		Spasms *
		Speaking in Tongues
		Reservoir Dogs *
		Masterpieces *
		The Venetian Twins
	1	Snoopy!!! — The Musical *
		Macbeth
		Suddenly Last Summer
		Domestic *
		[Insert Comedy] *
		Accidental Death of an Anarchist
2003	2	Vatzlav
		Fransziska
		To Hell with Being a Woman
		SPASMS *
		John Magruder Rides Again! *
		Metamorphosis
	1	Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee
		The School for Wives
		After the Rain
		Steel Magnolias *
		Stone Soup
		Who’s Afraid of the Working Class?
		Noir
		Domestic *
		A Pair of Shorts (Double bill of The Real Inspector Hound and The Bald Prima Donna)
		Hippopotamus Dreams
2002	2	The Vagina Monologues
		The Crucible
		Popcorn
		SPASMS *
		City of Angels
		Huis Clos
	1	The Women
		Alice *
		Domestic *
		The Zoo Story
		Politically Correct Bedtime Stories *
		The Man of Destiny
2001	2	Medea
		SPASMS *
		Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
		Proof
		Whose Life is it Anyway?
		Hamlet
		Much Ado About Nothing
	1	The Ghost Sonata
		Into The Woods (with SUDS)
		Così
		Domestic * (Billed as D2: The Mighty NUTS)
		For Fuck's Sake (Mensch Meier)
		Macbeth

* student written or adapted
** to be staged

NUTS produces, on average, 12 shows each year at various venues on the UNSW campus, primarily Studio One, a black box theatre. Major NUTS productions are staged in the larger Io Myers or Fig Tree Theatres for usually either one or two weeks. Minors are usually one week shows that are staged in Studio One and Mini-Majors are two week shows in Studio One.

The society produces a wide variety of plays each year - some of them written by club members. NUTS also stages two annual short play festival each year, called Domestic and SPASMS.

Domestic is an annual short play festival staged in Session 1 since it began in 2000. Writers are provided with a space and one day in which in write they're scripts. The plays are then cast, rehearsed for a week and then traditionally performed on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights before Good Friday.

SPASMS is an annual short play festival which was first produced in 1995 to coincide with the School of Media, Film and Theatre's second year scriptwriting course. It was created so that aspiring student playrights could see their scripts performed onstage. Scripts are submitted to the producers, cast and rehearsed, and then staged for one week in a theatre on-campus.