'You’re in for a treat.
'Matthew Whittet is the true original mind of Australian theatre – actor, writer, muse, inventor of marvels, scribe of human beauty and lover of oddity. Seventeen is the play he’s been getting ready to write for a long time. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, and it has been specially, like really specially, written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors. To be precise:
'Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden, Barry Otto. The lot of them.
'These venerables play 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.
'Funny, immature, wise and a little bit but quite beautifully sad, Seventeen is about the size of life.' (Production summary)
Performed at Belvoir's Upstairs Theatre: 1 August - 13 September 2015.
Cast: Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden, and Barry Otto.
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks.
Set Designer: Robert Cousins.
Costume Designer: Mel Page.
Dramaturg: Anthea Williams.
Presented by Melbourne Theatre Company. Performed at Southbank Theatre, The Summer : 15 January - 17 February 2024.
Director: Matt Edgerton.
Cast: Pamela Rabe, Fiona Choi, Robert Menzies. and Richard Piper.
Presented by WildThingProduction and Seymour Centre at the Seymour Centre, Sydney, 27 September - 19 October 2024.
Director: Kim Hardwick.
'The collision of age and youth is explored in this comedic start to MTC's 2024 program.'
'The collision of age and youth is explored in this comedic start to MTC's 2024 program.'
