y separately published work icon The Peach Season single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Peach Season
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'After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia's safe existence.

'Her daughter falls in love with enigmatic, erratic Kieran, but when the relationship is threatened, they run away together. The safe, perhaps smothering, world that Celia has created unravels; her paranoia and insecurities amplified to full volume. Playing out alongside her fear, we see the increasingly degrading and dangerous lifestyle that the two elopers have fallen into.

'Peach Season is a powerful, salutary tale showing what it's like to be a young person desperate for independence, but also, crucially, what it's like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest.' (Publisher's blurb)

Production Details

  • First produced by Griffin Theatre Company at SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney 16 March - 22 April 2006.

    Director: David Berthold.

    Designer: Alice Babidge.

    Lighting Designer: Stephen Hawker.

    Sound Designer: Jeremy Silver.

    Cast: John Adam, Maggie Blinco, Maeve Dermody, Anne Looby, Alice Parkinson, and Scott Timmins.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2006
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2007 .
      Extent: xiv, 72p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: For Annabelle Sheehan
      • Introduction by Maeve Dermody.
      ISBN: 9780868198057

Works about this Work

Q&A Debra Oswald 2007 single work interview
— Appears in: AtMitchell , March vol. 3 no. 1 2007; (p. 17)
Soft Fruit Bears Some Hard Truths Bryce Hallett , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 March 2006; (p. 21)

— Review of The Peach Season Debra Oswald , 2006 single work drama
Light at Last on a Peach of a Play Clare Morgan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 February 2006; (p. 11)
Prize for Play of Love Harriet Alexander , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 2005; (p. 18)
Soft Fruit Bears Some Hard Truths Bryce Hallett , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 March 2006; (p. 21)

— Review of The Peach Season Debra Oswald , 2006 single work drama
Prize for Play of Love Harriet Alexander , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 December 2005; (p. 18)
Light at Last on a Peach of a Play Clare Morgan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 February 2006; (p. 11)
Q&A Debra Oswald 2007 single work interview
— Appears in: AtMitchell , March vol. 3 no. 1 2007; (p. 17)
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