Head Full of Love

Title: Head Full of Love
Author: Valentine, Alana
Price: $24.95

\"Head Full of Love is a play that warms the heart\" - Olivia Stewart, The Courier-Mail, July 20, 2012

THEMES: Indigenous health, love, Cultural Divisions
CHARACTER AGES: 50+
LENGTH: 1.5 Hours
CAST SIZE: 1 - 2 Cast Members

Everyone involved in this production has stuck their neck out, so I'll do it too: Head Full of Love is wonderful. With a story that could at any moment have tipped into schmaltz, writer Alana Valentine has kept her nerve, delivering a script both predictable and powerful, fable-like and totally real. It is a story that tells us so much about where we are and what we need to do about it. Rosemary Sorensen, The Australian

The Annual Alice Springs Beanie Festival is fast approaching and Tilly Napuljari is out of time to finish her new creation to enter it for judging. Nessa Tavistock, a Sydneysider, has run away to the red centre to escape her own problems back in the big smoke. Head Full of Love is the story of the unlikely but inspiring friendship which forms between them. Based on extensive Central Desert mob consultation and support, this is an unsentimental, humorous and deeply moving portrait of the complexity of cross-cultural relationships rewoven, like a beanie, into a simple and humble beauty.

PRODUCTION HISTORY: Head Full of Love was first produced by the Darwin Festival, at Browns Mart Theatre on 23rd August, 2010. The play was nominated for a Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Best Play in 2011. It was remounted by the Queensland Theatre Company, at the Cremorne Theatre QPAC, Brisbane, on 7th July, 2012. It was also produced by Alana Valentine for broadcast on ABC Radio Nationals Airplay on 25th November, 2012. This radio adaptation was nominated for an AWGIE Award in the category Radio (Adaptation) in 2013.

Publisher: Playlab Press
Publication date: 01/01/2014
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9871921390508
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping in stock