
GREEN DAY'S AMERICAN IDIOT
Green Day’s explosive, award-winning Broadway phenomenon takes Australia by storm.
VIDEO DESIGN
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About
About
shake & stir theatre co
Green Day’s explosive, award-winning Broadway phenomenonAmerican Idiot is getting set to take Australia by storm as it embarks on a national tour. Winner of two Tony Awards® and the Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, American Idiot is the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9/11, Trumpian-suburbia, discovering love, loss, drugs, sex and rock and roll along the way. The show features the music of Green Day with lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. This electrified rock musical has had Green Day fans in rapture and introduced a generation of theatregoers to their grab-you-by-the-throat musical style, that simultaneously strums the heart strings. American Idiot features every song from the album of the same name as well as several songs from the follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.
Come and discover what all the noise is about.
This high-octane music theatre/rock spectacle showcases an all-Australian cast including the phenomenally talented and multi – Helpmann Award nominee Phoebe Panaretos as Whatsername and Aussie rock legends Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon) Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Sarah McLeod (The Superjesus) playing in rotation as St Jimmy.
optikal bloc joined the American Idiot team in 2017 as video designer and video producer, for video content on and off the stage.
The design featured a 9x6m projection mapped surface and 15 x 55inch TVs scattered amongst the set in both portrait and landscape orientations.
Production images by Dylan Evans Photography
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Creative Team
Creative Team
Music - Green Day
Book - Michael Mayer
Director - Craig Ilott
Choreographer - Lucas Newland
Music Director - Glenn Moorhouse
Lighting Designer - Matt Marshall
Video Designer - Craig Wilkinson, optikal bloc
Set Designer - Josh McIntosh
Costume Designer - Melanie KnightCreative Design - Craig Wilkinson
Technical Design - Stephen Brodie
Video Design Illustrator - Sean Dowling
Watchout Programmer - Kyle Renphrey, Nigel Capenhurst
Video Technician - Dale Norris
BTS Videographer - Tanner SmithProduction Partners - Interactive Controls
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Media

Video Design featurette
Get a sneak peek into the process of creating the original video design for the Australian Premiere of Green Day's American Idiot
2018 NATIONAL TOUR
SYDNEY
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
11 – 14 January 2018
ADELAIDE
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide Festival Centre
19 – 28 January 2018
PERTH
Crown Theatre
2 – 11 February 2018
MELBOURNE
Comedy Theatre
From 23 February 2018
BRISBANE
Playhouse Theatre, QPAC
13 – 21 April 2018
DARWIN
Darwin Entertainment Centre
3 – 6 May 2018
VIDEO MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Check out some of the video marketing campaign content we produced for the 2017 Brisbane season and 2018 national tour.

Sarah McLeod (The Superjesus) takes on St Jimmy

Audience Reactions Melbourne

Melbourne 30 trailer

Inside Aussie Idiot teaser

Audience Reviews at Sydney Opera House

Adalita (Magic Dirt) takes on St Jimmy

G'Day from Green Day

Sarah McLeod and Adalita announcement

National Tour Launch trailer

Media Junket with Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon)

2017 Journey into Jingletown

2017 Cast Announcement

2017 Vox Pops

2017 Meet the Characters "Johnny"

Rehearsals with Chris Cheney (The Living End)

2017 TVC

2017 Launch Announcement