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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.
Currency Press | 978-0-86819-805-7 | PB
AuthorDebra Oswald is a Sydney-based playwright and author. She began writing as a teenager and her first play was workshopped at the Australian National Playwrights Conference when she was 17, and it was later broadcast on ABC Radio. Since then she has made her living as a writer for film, television, stage and radio as well as publishing a number of novels for children.
Debra has written extensively for the stage and is best known for her play
Dags, which has had many productions both in Australia and overseas. Her other plays include
Sweet Road,
Gary's House,
Mr Bailey’s Minder and
Peach Season. Her prize-winning youth theatre play
Skate toured to Belfast in 2005. Her television credits include
Palace of Dreams,
Bananas in Pyjamas,
Police Rescue,
The Secret Life of Us and various dramas for ABC TV Education.
Debra is also the author of the children's novels
Me and Barry Terrific,
The Return of the Baked Bean,
The Redback Leftovers and
The Fifth Quest as well three Aussie Bites —
Nathan and the Ice Rockets, Frank and the Emergency Joke and
Frank and the Secret Club.
For a rich guide to understanding more about the work of Debra Oswald visit the 'What I wrote' series website where you can download Teacher's Notes, watch a trailer for the DVD and read information on the authors. |