Image: Edwina Richards
BLUEBERRY PLAY
Being 17 is awkward. Having to take care of your sick dad when you’re 17 is another story. Especially when he keeps trying to shave his eyebrows off.
Blueberry Play is a vivid and heart-bursting monologue that explores the high highs and the low lows of being a teenage girl in a small town. From the public pool to the locker rooms at school to back home where things are just a bit topsy-turvy, this is an Aussie coming-of-age story with a refreshing twist.
From the creative team that brought you Spewy, the sold-out smash-hit of New Annual 2023, Blueberry Play is a beautifully intimate story from award winning Novocastrian playwright Ang Collins.
Current production available for touring | Newcastle Premiere at Civic Theatre UpStage 2024 | 14 – 17 August, 2024
Presented by Lingua Franca
Director & Co-Producer: Adam Deusien
Playwright & Co-Producer: Ang Collins (hello!)
Composer & Sound Designer: Clare Hennessy
Assistant Director & Stage Manager: Hannah Armstrong
With: Madelaine Osborn
PAST PRODUCTIONS OF BLUEBERRY PLAY
It’s Jono’s 18th tonight and you’re going as a blueberry because the theme is ‘childhood memories’ and you want to look like Violet Beauregard from Willy Wonka… but sluttier.
Being 17 is awkward. Having to take care of your sick dad when you’re 17 is another story. Especially when he keeps trying to shave his eyebrows off. Shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Award, Blueberry Play explores the high highs and the low lows of being a teenage girl in a small town. Written for a solo performer, a beautifully intimate story about family life, adolescence, and mental and physical illness unassumingly unfolds into something quite breathtaking.
Blueberry Play had its premiere season at Griffin Theatre Company’s Batch Festival from 18 - 21 April, 2018, and has enjoyed subsequent seasons at the Old Fitz from 25 - 28 October, 2018, and at The Blue Room Theatre in Perth from 18 - 26 January, 2019.
The script is currently available for purchase on Australian Plays Transform.
Image: Jasmin Simmons
TEAM
Director: Sheridan Harbridge
Producer: Jessica Pantano
Designer: Nick Fry
Lighting Designer: Alexander Berlage/Nick Fry
Sound Designer: Clemence Williams
Video Designer: Mic Gruchy
With: Julia Robertson (Old Fitz/The Blue Room Theatre), Contessa Treffone (Batch Festival)
Production stills by Nick Fry
Reviews
“Blueberry Play is wonderful to watch, and would be just as satisfying, I suspect, to read for the poetry of its text… Highly Recommended.”
Seesaw Mag
“Sharply witty, beautifully sad, and intimately relatable.” ★★★★
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