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Being 17 is hard enough – hormones, homework, the looming question of what comes next. Add caring for your mum to the mix, and Thea’s juggling act is nothing short of Olympic.
Smart, self-sufficient and secretly just holding it together, she’s spent the last two years keeping her life under wraps. No-one knows she’s a carer. Not even Syd, her endlessly chatty new running partner who pushes her to pursue a university athletics scholarship and dream of something more. But chasing that future means leaving her mum behind – and the last time Thea tried that, things didn’t quite go to plan.
AWGIE Award winner Madelaine Nunn’s moving new play sensitively explores our responsibilities to those we love, the untold strength of care and the courage to know when to lean on others for help.
Madelaine Nunn is an AWGIE Award–winning writer, actor and producer working across theatre, film and radio since graduating from VCA in 2015. Her award-winning solo show FLICK has toured internationally to New York, Washington D.C., Edinburgh and Latitude Festival. She is founder of Mad Nun Productions, co-founder of Three Birds Theatre and Artistic Director of Rollercoaster Theatre. Her writing credits include sitting, screaming (The Old Fitz); FLICK (Summerhall/Theatre Row/La Mama); SAAM (ATYP); Cactus (La Mama/RAV); The Chapel, The Fire & the Dead Cat (AYTP); Kinder Surprise (ABC RN); and Bin Chicken (ATYP/Griffin Theatre Company). Her many awards include The House of Oz Purse Prize, The Martin Lysicrates Prize, The Rebel Wilson Scholarship, The ATYP Foundation Commission and The Jopuka Elderslee Commission. She is a three-time AWGIE nominee and has also received Green Room Award nominations.
