Stop Rewind

Title: Stop Rewind
Author: Bubnic, Melissa
Price: $25.99

A disparate group of seven work colleagues in a local government office struggle to hold onto their dreams, as they desperately attempt to prevent being completely paralysed by their workplace, and by themselves.

Trevor regularly locks himself in the toilet, crying over past decisions that have brought him to this sad impasse. Heather appears perfectly fine but privately despairs that she hasnt been touched for such a long time. Tabithas affair with her married colleague Grant means little to her but Grant is passionately in love. Having emigrated from Eastern Europe Nina desperately tries to climb the ladder as her useless husband seems incapable. Dim dreams of being a successful musician and plans to stay temporarily - only its already been thirteen months, with no end in sight. And Lachlan moves from Sydney to become General Manager only to have his team dislike him almost as much as he dislikes them.

The drudgery of daily office life shifts dramatically when a traumatic event in the department forces everybody to take a good hard look at themselves and to contemplate the possibility of changeand to ponder how far they are prepared to go in order to achieve real happiness.


CAST: 6M, 3F (doubling required)


AUTHOR
MELISSA BUBNIC is a playwright and screenwriter from Melbourne. She is a recipient of commissions and prizes from Arts Victoria, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, La Mama, Transport Accident Commissions Make a Film, Make a Difference competition, Platform Youth Theatre and the Childrens Literature Board of Australia. She attended the 2007 World Interplay Playwrights Festival as one of nine Australian delegates.

Her play Beached (dir. Anthony Clark) had a reading at Soho Theatre in June 2010 and has since won the 2010 Patrick White Award from the Sydney Theatre Company. Another of her plays, Emoticon, was the winner of the Write Now 3 competition at the Brockley Jack Studio in London.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780868199504
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping in stock