Skye: Oh my favorite roles in the show's probably Sandy in Grease.
Nathan: My favorite role is the werewolf from Western werewolf from London.
Ben: And my favorite role would have to be Macbeth.
Stuart Smith: My name is Stuart Smith I am the artistic director of Options Theatre Company.
Options theatre company is a company for actors, creatives, dancers, filmmakers anybody like that that happens to be a person with a disability.
I don't really like to use the term disability despite the fact that we are a disability theatre company. There's this term going around now it's about talking about people's abilities and what they can do and so the theatre company is about searching for what individual challenges everybody has what communication challenges that they have and then finding a way that they can use all of the abilities they do have to tell their story, whatever that story might be.
So Newcastle permanent gave us $50,000 so we were able to buy retractable seating we're able to fit out our studio. Without their help we would not be able to make an idea, and ambitious idea like this possible.
Ben: What love about Options Theatre Company is that it's helped my disability it's helped me to become more confident and to, to not be so shy and to really come out of my shell and to yeah meet new people and lots of groups of friends that we all look after each other, and we all help each other, we never judge each other. And I've got a large of circle of friends now.
Skye: Always wanna be like an actress or a singer or dancer or, or whoever I become. Yeah it makes me feel comfortable.
Olivia: I want to be a successful actress and I want to be the first regular cast member slash character on neighbours with a disability.