Seventeen

Title: Seventeen
Author: Whittet, Matthew
Price: $25.99

Seventeen is about the cusp of adulthood and has been specially written for a rollcall of the country's great senior actors- Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden and Barry Otto-all playing a group of teenagers, drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing, their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood.
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So what are you going to miss the most?

The library, free periods on Wednesday afternoons, interschool debating tournaments and Mrs Frankenbaum.

Frankenbaum? Who smells like something crept up her frankenbaum and died years ago?

Its the night of the last day of school. And its over. Finally over!

Tom, Mike, Edwina, Sure and Ronny are 17 and theyre seriously celebrating. Teetering of the cusp of adulthood, this is the night they say goodbye to adolescence and begin the journey of the rest of their lives. For each of them its a phoenix momentexhilarating and sad, scorching and beautiful. Truths are revealed, passions unveiled, relationships are created and fall apart. Everything is changing. Tonight they drink, they dance, they shout and they love.

Matthew Whittets beautiful new play Seventeen is a finely observant, optimistic work about the strains of youth, about transformation and, ultimately, letting go.

Cast : 3M; 3F

MATTHEW WHITTET is a playwright and actor. He graduated from NIDA's acting course. Matthew's writing credits include Cinderella, Old Man (Belvoir); Girl Asleep, Fugitive, School Dance, Big Bad Wolf (Windmill Theatre), and Harbing (Brink Productions). His one-man show Silver (B Sharp), which he wrote and performed in, won the 2010 Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award. For Belvoir, Matthew has performed in Cinderella, Conversation Piece, The Book of Everything, The Threepenny Opera, The Underpants, King Ubu and As You Like It. Matthew's other acting credits include The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Metamorphosis, Endgame, Fireface (Sydney Theatre Company); Hamlet, King Lear (Bell Shakespeare); Moving Target, The Ham Funeral (Malthouse Theatre); and The Department (State Theatre Company of South Australia). He also has extensive film and TV credits as an actor; some of his film credits include The Great Gatsby, Sleeping Beauty, Australia and Moulin Rouge!. Matthew's feature film adaptation of his most recent play for Windmill, Girl Asleep, is currently in post-production and will premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival. Matthew was a 2013/2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 03/08/2015
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781925005462
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping in stock