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About Dramatic Solutions
Company Profile
Who Can Make Use of
Dramatic Solutions?
What Services does
Dramatic Solutions offer?
Newsletters
Performance Diary
Schedule of Events
Recent Press Releases
Recent Media Coverage
Website Changes
Company Profile
Dramatic Solutions provides performance and training options to address the entertainment and skills development challenges facing our clients. Through training we seek to help people develop skills to communicate with greater effectiveness in what continues to become a more visually oriented society. Through our performances we seek to open eyes to perspectives on life that move beyond the ‘concrete’ and the ‘individual’ and so encourage individuals to build communities.
Trevor Wright and Grant Wildman and their wives, Kerryn and Rochelle, work under the banner of Dramatic Solutions. This is a partnership that brings together their diverse skills in performance, writing, teaching, and training. Drawing on the experience of its members as well as a pool of invited performers, Dramatic Solutions meets the needs of its clients by:
 | delivering high quality performances in visual and story theatre |
| enhancing training presentations with visual and interactive content |
| offering training workshops in mask, clowning, communication, and group work |
| devising customized training vehicles, extended curricula, and performances to satisfy specific client requirements |
| providing professional development for teachers in the performing arts |
| interpreting faith perspective’s through theatre. |
These artists are responsible for and continue to perform with the following performance companies: Rivet ‘n’ Tuft "Cultured" Clowns (est. 1983), Mask-Works (est. 1989), and Out and Beyond Theater Company (est. 1995). Each of these groups can be booked through Dramatic Solutions. Customized programs for training and entertainment are also available. Contact information is at the foot of this page.
Trevor and Grant have been working together since 1983. They perform as Rivet 'n' Tuft 'Cultured' Clowns as well as mask performers in Mask-Works. Their clowns Rivet and Tuft have traveled in Australia and overseas, performing and teaching in China (1990-92), South Africa (1997), and the United States (2000). They have performed hundreds of times all over Australia.
They have a vast clowning repertoire suitable for all age groups and situations. These include one to one clowning in intensive care units at hospitals, prison performances, church work, large theatrical performances, family celebrations, special events, schools, and business functions.
Trevor
(Rivet) co-founded Rivet 'n' Tuft 'Cultured' Clowns with Grant in 1983 and
Mask-Works in 1989. Trevor's interest in improvisation and spontaneity has
seen him explore psychodrama and co-found You-Watch Theatre, a playback
improvisational theatre company.
Grant
(Tuft) has a B.Ed. in drama education as well as qualifications in counseling and
has worked in both of these fields in the school context. He thinks that
performing, teaching, and counseling are intimately connected. That vision
influences his approach to theatre and training. Grant has had experience
in curriculum development and policy writing for drama at both the state
and national levels in Australia.
Who Can Make Use of Dramatic Solutions?
Here is a list of Dramatic Solutions programs organized by the group for which they are most likely to be applicable.
 Department of Education schools |
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 Catholic, Private, and Independent Schools |
 Businesses |
 Communities |
 Other Groups |
What Services does Dramatic Solutions offer?
Here is an introduction to the various Dramatic Solutions services. Click on each one for detailed information.
 Rivet'n'Tuft 'Cultured'
ClownsMasterful clowns who tell stories, do improv, and induce full-throated belly laughs. |
 Mask-WorksPowerful mask work unlocks deep feelings around universal human experiences. |
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 Teaching and TrainingTraining for future dramatic artists in clowning, mask, circus skills, improv, and acting. |
 Custom SolutionsA consulting service that uses drama to solve communication and education challenges for all kinds of groups. |
Out and Beyond Theater Company
Newsletters
For supporters and friends who help keep us on the road!
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Performance Diary
For excerpts from our Performance Diary, click here!
Schedule of Events
All through the year our days are peppered with work in local schools,
churches, and local communities.
Press Releases
Here are press releases we've issued.
| August 5, 1998 -- Dramatic Solutions Tours the Outback |
| July 2, 1998 -- Dramatic Solutions Begins Major Tour |
| January 31, 1998 -- Dramatic Solutions Establishes Internet Presence |
| August 23, 2000 -- Cinderella with a Twist (September Holidays Performance) |
| December 29, 2001 -- Dramatic Solutions Announces "Jack", A New Performance for Christmas Holidays |
| January 24, 2002 -- Added "Performance Diary" Feature |
Recent Media Coverage
Some of the media coverage of Dramatic Solutions is described here.
| September 18, 2001 -- Naracoorte Herald -- "Naracoorte Primary Clowns Around" |
| December 17, 2001 -- SA Liberal Website -- Dramatic Solutions receives "State of Play" performance grant |
| February 1, 2002 -- Port Lincoln Times -- "vox populi" section |
| February 27, 2002 -- Courier News, Adelaide -- "School Kids on Wheels" |
Web Changes
This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.
April 21, 2000: Website renovation
New graphics and design for the entire website.
February 1, 1999: New organization of pages
Highlights: separate areas for the various types of groups interested in Dramatic Solutions' services.
January 29, 1999: New content throughout the site
Highlights: the custom solutions page, a schedule for tours and some other events for 1999, and synopses for more Rivet'n'Tuft performances.
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