The 2026 edition of ATYP's Intersection Festival, which gives young people the opportunity to perform brand-new short plays written by some of the country's best new writers.

After school, three boys clash over whether they've outgrown their lactose-fuelled childhood tradition. The captain of The Crushers Under 17s women's soccer team struggles valiantly to rally her rag-tag teammates over a container of orange slices. At a bus stop, a private school girl and an apprentice fork-lift driver form an unlikely connection. When Tess chooses to hole up in her room instead of celebrate at El Jannah, her friends decide it's time to stage a surprise birthday exorcism. And…

As dawn breaks, the Sustainability Club's plans to prove once and for all that they must be taken seriously are about to surprise everyone—including themselves. A blanket fort provides a space for two estranged siblings to express the things they've been too afraid to say. Dressed in an itchy lavender turtleneck, Laura finds she isn't quite ready to come out of the toilet and face Nan's friends and their egg and lettuce sandwiches. Can a Rat and a Bird navigate the cheesy world of teen…

Surrounded by snacks, players begin a game of Dungeons and Dragons in which identities will be explored and revealed. As Russia invades Ukraine, two siblings start to remember their grandmother and the heritage she felt forced to hide. X-Box controllers in hand, two cousins decide it might be time to kill Grandma—but what about her great samosas?

Each year, ATYP brings together 20 playwrights from around Australia, empowering them to create plays that connect with young performers and audiences. The Intersection Festival is the creative reimagining of our popular Voices Project and Intersection plays, giving young people the opportunity to perform brand-new short plays written by some of the country's best new writers.

As the world ends in a fire tornado, two young lovers find that breaking up is never easy. In a holding cell, a young woman arrested for graffiti wonders about Cardi B and climate change. The formal on Saturday night is going to be a magical evening – or perhaps more like the revenge scene from a B–grade horror movie. And two new friends need to track down a pet velociraptor – right now – before things get really bad.

Intersection: Beat is a taste-test of Australia's brightest new playwrights illuminating fragments of lives dancing on the edge of adulthood. This collection of short plays will surprise, intrigue, provoke and move. 

It's midnight and twin siblings argue over what to do with the dog they just ran over. In a school common room a student is struggling to clean a sharpie drawing of a you-know-what off a window. In an undisclosed location a boy prepares for his new life in a special witness protection program for embarrassed youths.

In a small town, a young woman applies make-up like layers of defence, preparing to go into battle. On top of the town tip, two friends stand guard as some home truths emerge. At the local arcade, a grotesque ritual sacrifice is taking place. And a young woman obsessed with Stevie Nicks thinks she’s solved the mystery about the blood on the silo just out of town…

It's formal night and Jerry stands on a hill, high heels in hand. A young woman heads to a party dressed as a blueberry. Stuart plays at the arcade to win a slime-green lava lamp instead of concentrating on the problem at hand. What connects them is not time, it's place.