Something Like Lost, Something Like Found + I’ll Show You Yours

Title: Something Like Lost, Something Like Found + I'll Show You Yours
Author: Brown, David and Kruckemeyer, Finegan
Price: $24.95

SOMETHING LIKE LOST, SOMETHING LIKE FOUND
by David Brown

Cast: 4M 4F
Character Ages: 17 - 25
Length: 1.5 hrs approximately
Target Audience: Senior Years
Style: Drama
Themes: Mental illness, relationships

They call it lost and found. You tell me somethingthats found. You dont tell me something- thats lost. My job is to try and find everything. I have to get it on film. Then its there and everyone can see it.

SYNOPSIS
When film student Naomi begins work on a documentary featuring a group of Year 12 students, she has no idea that the rippling impact of one shared experience is about to be caught on film. No one has seen Year 12 student, Sophie all week. Her sister is panicked, her friends dont know what to do, and Sophies boyfriend seems to have disappeared too. With tension running high and Namoi around to capture all the action, everyone comes to realise that one experience can leave you something like lost, or something like found.

PRODUCTION HISTORY
Originally commissioned and performed at Tantrum Theatres Senior Ensemble at The Playhouse Civic Precinct, Newcastle 2009.

PLAYWRIGHT
David Brown was commissioned by the 1998 Brisbane Festival to write and direct Keep Everything You Love which went on to tour throughout regional Queensland, Alice Springs and Darwin. He has also been commissioned by Freewheels Theatre Co (2000), the Queensland Arts Council (2004) and Tantrum Youth Theatre (2007, 2008).



I'LL SHOW YOU YOURS
by Finegan Kruckemeyer

Cast: 6M 6F either gender
Character Ages: 16 - 17
Length: 30 min approximately
Target Audience: Senior Years
Style: Comedic Drama
Themes: Youth relationships, love

We all want to love, to be loved. If youre single, you
seek it. If youre together, youre constantly analysing
it. If you dont analyse itthats something nice.

SYNOPSIS
The parties, the fights, and the kissing are the easy bits. The hard part is finding the right words to make a girl see how perfect you are together, or recording the right mix tape to make a boy love you for the rest of Year Ten. Ill Show You Yours is a funny and truthful depiction of nine teenagers who want to love and be loved. Originally developed with young people and selected for the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival, as part of the YEP Programme, touring high schools.

PRODUCTION HISTORY
Commissioned and first performed by Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble 2004, and as part of the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

PLAYWRIGHT
Finegan has had 52 commissioned plays performed on five continents, and was an inaugural recipient of the $160,000 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. This year 20 works (including nine premieres) will play worldwide, with seasons in Argentina, Australia (ten works in six states, with two at the Sydney Opera House and three at the Melbourne Arts Centre), China, England (three national tours), Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland - and the United States, at invited programmes New Visions New Voices (JFK Center for the Arts, Washington), New Plays for Young Audiences (New York University), and the IPAY American Showcase (his fourth consecutive IPAY work).

Publisher: Playlab Press
Publication date: 01/01/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921390036
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping