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Home Political / social themes Parramatta Girls and Eyes to the Floor
Parramatta Girls and Eyes to the Floor

Parramatta Girls and Eyes to the Floor

$29.99

ISBN: 9781925005165
Author: Alana Valentine
Publication Date: 1/07/2014
Edition: First
Publisher: Currency Press
Extent: 160pp.
Availability: Available

Cast Info: 8F
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9781921428739: Parramatta Girls
9781925210002: Eyes to the Floor

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SKU: BK979 Categories: Australian history, Award winning, Currency Press, Drama, Gender themes, Play Collections, Plays, Plays by women, Political / social themes, Significant female role/s, Young adult Tags: Alana Valentine, Currency Press, Scripts
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The inmates of the Girls Training School (GTS) Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the great untold stories of making good in tough times.

Parramatta Girls is based on the testimony of dozens of GTS old-girls. This vibrant play is a joyous and harrowing dramatisation of the experiences of eight inmates and their reunion 40 years later. Interspersed with song and storytelling, this is a tribute to mischief and humour in the face of hardship and inequality.

Eyes to the Floor chronicles the experience of girls sent from Parramatta Girls Home to the Hay Girls Home for even more brutal, punitive treatment. Written to be played by young adults, this moving work emphasises the childlike vulnerability of the inmates in a world where they must find connection with each other in order to to survive. Artfully woven with movement, chorus work and poetry, it is a compelling companion work to Parramatta Girls.

For a study guide to Parramatta Girls from Belvoir Theatre click here.

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