All Jed’s friends have moved to the city, but he still lives with his two mothers in a small town between the beach and the bush, on a train line with a city at either end. Waiting.
He’s not sure what he’s waiting for, but in the meantime he works at the council investigating sinkholes in people’s backyards. Since finishing high school, the frustrations of coastal life are looming large. And something is being hidden from him about the illness facing one of his mothers.
This honest coming-of-age story finds friendship and humour in unexpected places. Introducing a cast of complex characters working through the everyday, Trailer is a darkly comic play set along the train tracks of New South Wales.
Nominated for the 2017 AWGIE Award for Community and Youth Theatre.
VANESSA BATES is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and researcher. Her plays include The Magic Hour 2024, The One, Small Hard Things, A Ghost In My Suitcase, Trailer, Every Second, PORN.CAKE, Checklist For An Armed Robber and Darling Oscar. She has received a NSW Premier’s Prize, two AWGIE Awards, the Stoddart Playwriting Award and been shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Award, STC Patrick White Award, Griffin Award, the Newton John Award, the 503 Playwriting Award, Brennan Playwriting Award and further AWGIE Awards. Vanessa received her doctorate in scriptwriting, examining Mixed Cultural Identity and effects on a playwrighting practice pivoted to screenwriting. She is one-seventh of playwrighting alliance 7ON. Several of their works have been published including Sharp Darts, No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames and as part of Short Circuits.
| Cast Info | 2F, 6M, (doubling available) |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Naturalism / realism, YA/Children's Theatre |
| Themes | Diverse sexuality themes, Environmental themes |
| Audiences | Young Adult, Secondary: Years 10-12, Secondary: Years 7-9 |
| Extent | 64 |
| Edition | First |
| Size | 137 x 210 mm |
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