'The Max Afford Playwrights’ Award is offered by Perpetual and administered by Playwriting Australia. It was created “to promote interest in Australian drama and to encourage the writing of plays in Australia, to help and give incentive to young writers of plays.” The award is an initiative of the late Thelma May Afford, who in her will established a fund to offer a periodical prize in memory of her husband.' (http://www.pwa.org.au/programs/developing-plays/max-afford-playwrights-award/)
'I’m not saying – not really – that I can change the world, but maybe – there’s a big part of me that thinks: you know what? I have the privileged education. I have the determination. Maybe it’s not a colossal effect, but maybe – I can alter something. Maybe I can.
'PJ moves to a remote country town to take up a teaching job as part of a prestigious re-training program. She is assigned a difficult student, Sam. As PJ’s life becomes harder, she finds herself forging a bond with her ward, he becomes not only a student, but a project, with a particular fascination.
'As their classes break and rebuild, lessons are taught, rules are broken and a dangerous obsession – a co-dependence – forms. Who is teaching who?' (Production summary)
