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'Corrigan is a town populated by barnacles: hard shells that clench themselves shut and choose not to know.'
'Charlie Bucktin is a geeky thirteen-year-old living in a country WA town in 1965. He's probably the only teenager who reads books in a town that's sport mad. His best mate Jeffrey Lu is Vietnamese, and isn't having such a good time of things either.
'Jasper Jones is an Indigenous 14 year-old that lives on the outside of town and the wrong side of the tracks. One summer night, Jasper takes Charlie to his secret glade in the bush. Charlie witnesses a terrible discovery and is suddenly embroiled in a plot with more twists and turns than any of the novels he so dearly loves.
'Barking Gecko is thrilled that talented playwright and actor Kate Mulvany will adapt Craig Silvey's multiple award-winning, best-selling novel, Jasper Jones for WA audiences.' (Production summary)
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Production Details
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Performed at Studio Underground; State Theatre Centre of WA 18 July - 09 August 2014.
Director: John Sheedy.
Set & Costume: Designer Michael Scott Mitchell.
Lighting Designer: Trent Suidgeest.
Sound Designer: Ben Collins.
Performed at the Belvoir St Theatre, Upstairs Theatre, 2 January - 7 February 2016.
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks.
Set Designer: Michael Hankin.
Costume Designer: Mel Page.
Lighting Designer: Matt Scott.
Composer & Sound Designer: Steve Toulmin.
Cast: Tom Conroy, Kate Mulvany, Lasarus Ratuere, Matilda Ridgway, Steve Rodgers, and Charles Wu.
Produced by Melbourne Theatre Company at the Sumner, Southbank Theatre, 1 August to 10 September 2016.
Director: Sam Strong.
Set and Costume Designer: Anna Cordingley.
Lighting Designer: Matt Scott.
Composer and Sound designer: Darrin Verhagen.
Voice and Dialect Coach: Leith McPherson.
Assistant Director: Justine Campbell.
Cast: Ian Bliss (Mr Bucktin / Warwick), Nicholas Denton (Charlie Bucktin), Taylor Ferguson (Laura / Eliza Wishart), Rachel Gordon (Mrs Bucktin), Guy Simon (Jasper Jones), Hayden Spencer (Mad Jack), and Harry Tseng (Jeffrey Lu).
Performed at Belvoir Upstairs Theatre, Surry Hills, New South Wales : 25 January - 19 February 2017.
Director: Anne-Louise Sarks.
Set Designer: Michael Hankin.
Costume Designer: Mel Page.
Lighting Designer: Matt Scott.
Composer and Sound Designer: Steve Toulmin.
Fight Choreography: Scott Witt.
Choreographer: Sara Black.
Indigenous Advisor: Jada Alberts.
Cast including Tom Conroy, Matilda Ridgway, Guy Simon, and Hoa Xuande.
Produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia and Flinders University at the Dunstan Playhouse, 16 August to 7 September 2019.
Director: Nescha Jelk.
Designer: Ailsa Paterson.
Lighting Designer: Nigel Levings.
Composer and Sound Designer: Andrew Howard.
Cast including James Smith and Elijah Valadian-Wilson.
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Excellent Cast Does Justice to a Great Aussie Gothic Yarn
2019
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— Appears in: The Australian , 22 August 2019;
— Review of Jasper Jones 2014 single work drama'When 13-year-old Charlie Bucktin is woken in his bedroom sleep-out by a knock on the window, little does he knows this marks the end of his childhood. Called by his new friend Jasper Jones, an outcast Aboriginal boy, to help solve a mysterious death, Charlie begins to glimpse the bleak secrets of his home town of Corrigan.' (Introduction)
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Jasper Jones Review : Marvellous Production with Broad Appeal
2016
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— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 7 August 2016;
— Review of Jasper Jones 2014 single work drama 'Publishing has a category aimed at teens; theatre doesn't. Even if it did, this marvellous production of Jasper Jones would transcend the label, as the best stories for younger audiences always do. ...' -
Teen Spirit Has Broad Appeal
2016
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— Appears in: The Age , 8 August 2016; (p. 21)
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A Modern Classic Comes Alive
2016
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30-31 July 2016; (p. 16)
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Fluid Lines
2016
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 February 2016;
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Empathy for a Rebellious Outsider
2014
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— Appears in: The Australian , 17 July 2014; (p. 14)
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Nation Warms to Small-Town Tale
2016
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— Appears in: The Australian , 5 January 2016; (p. 13)
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Keeping up with the Joneses from Page to Stage
2016
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 January 2016; (p. 26)
— Review of Jasper Jones 2014 single work drama -
Adaptation Keeps the Favourite Bits
2016
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— Appears in: The Age , 6 January 2016; (p. 23)
— Review of Jasper Jones 2014 single work drama -
Dark Side of Small-town Idyll
2016
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— Appears in: The Australian , 8 January 2016; (p. 12)
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Fluid Lines
2016
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 February 2016; -
Play On
2015
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 24 October 2015;
Awards
- 2017 shortlisted Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best Play
- 2017 shortlisted Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — Best New Australian Work
- 2017 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards — Direction : Theatre - Companies
- 2017 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards — Production : Theatre - Companies
- 2017 shortlisted Victorian Green Room Awards — Writing/Adaptation for the Australian Stage