Spurboard

Title: Spurboard
Author: Enright, Nick
Price: $18.95

Cast : 7M, 9F + extras (doubling required)

A new play from the award-winning author of \"Blackrock\" and \"A Property of the Clan\". The play deals with a group of young people in their late teens growing up in a country town.

Greg spends his spare time gazing at the stars while his brother Mitchell prefers the mud of the rodeo arena. Karen and Amy are friends with wildly different ambitions. Juggling the demands of parents, friends and their own dreams, these four teenagers learn that adulthood begins with a voyage of self-discovery.

This is a large play for a large cast centring around a group of young people in their late teens growing up in a country town. It covers the next couple of years in their lives as each endeavours to make their own way in the world. Some manage to follow their dreams, others fall by the wayside, but the play never loses its sense of optimism and life affirmation.

The world of the play moves from the dustbowl of the rodeo circuit to the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and incorporates a number of issues important in young lives: being true to oneself; exploring one's sexuality; dealing with parental pressures; sibling rivalry; competitive pressures of success and failure; staying in a country town or going 'where the money is'.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 05/04/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780868196435
Publishing status: Last copy available