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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Silent Disco
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'Tamara and Jasyn are in love. Tamara is fourteen. Jasyn lives with Aunty and his brother Dane is in prison for dealing. Jasyn wants to take Tamara to the formal, but he hasn't got the cash.

'In a world of absent mothers and missing fathers, Mrs Petchell battles to keep another year of students out of the ranks of the vanished. The Outsiders is on the syllabus again, but instead of Socs and Greasers, this is the world of Speds and Skanks - fuelled by Red Bull and powered by iPods. It can be hard to find your own rhythm when everyone is marching to the beat of a different drum.' (From the publisher's website.)

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Production Details

  • First produced by Griffin Theatre in a coproduction with atyp and HotHouse Theatre at SBW Stables Theatre Kings Cross, New South Wales, 22 April - 4 June 2011.

    Director: Lee Lewis.

    Designer: Justin Nardella.

    Lighting Designer: Ross Graham.

    Sound Designer and  Composer: Stefan Gregory.

    Cast: Camilla Ah Kin, Sophie Hensser, Kirk Page, and Meyne Wyatt.

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First known date: 2009

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— Review of Silent Disco Lachlan Philpott , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Elissa Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 15 May 2011; (p. 13)

— Review of Silent Disco Lachlan Philpott , 2009 single work drama
Untitled Cameron Woodhead , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26)

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Strong Field among Helpmann Nominees Matthew Westwood , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 July 2011; (p. 15)
Dancing with the Secret Life of Teens Elissa Blake , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 August 2011; (p. 15)
Acclaimed Work Fails to Lure Audiences 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 9 August 2011; (p. 15)
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