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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Jim Kellar

Welcome to Wonder City: a place where children make all the rules

Cast members in Tantrum Youth Arts' Wonder City interactive experience. Picture by Tamara Gazzard

It's only appropriate that Newcastle's annual cultural festival New Annual has an event that requires the audience to bring their imagination - and leave their bundle of scepticism at home.

Wonder City, created by the youngsters and professionals at Tantrum Youth Arts, a Newcastle creative arts organisation that began as 2 Til 5 Youth Theatre Co-op in 1976, is an interactive experience with young Tantrum actors leading the way to introduce "tourists" to a version of Newcastle that is created by kids.

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