Another Place by Eleanor Kay

Presented as part of the VCA Master of Theatre (Writing) Festival 2024

As the Darwin dry season draws to a close, the lives of Audrey, Joe, Rose and Ash become curiously intertwined as they navigate their relationships and roles within a fraught socio-political system. They are all just trying their best.

Content Warnings: Some explicit language and sexual references

Credits

Director: Marion Slatter
Dramaturg: James Burchett

About the writer

Eleanor has had a love of theatre and playwriting since editing the script to give herself a larger acting role in her year three primary school play. Undertaking the Master of Theatre (Writing) has been a long-time goal which she was able to pursue after relocating from Darwin this year. In 2017 Eleanor undertook a playwriting course with TAFE SA and wrote and performed in Hesitation at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with her brother Lachlan. In 2020 her play Faltering was shortlisted for the Brown's Mart Theatre Award. She lives in Brunswick, works as a land rights lawyer and hopes to keep making time for the essential acts of writing and collaborating.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the VCA staff who helped in the development of Another Place, including the wonderful Raimondo Cortese, Emily Sheehan and Chris Mead for their guidance and insight.

Thanks also to James Burchett for his dramaturgical wisdom and Ben Kelly for constantly listening and contributing to the development of some key moments in the play.

To the incredible 2024 writing class, you continually leave me in awe. Thanks for everything.

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Ticket Prices

Free, registrations required on Humanitix

Run time

This reading will run for approximately 70 minutes.

Venue

This reading takes place in Studio 4, located in the Dodds Street Performing Arts Building which is accessible via paths in the new Dodds Street Linear Park.
Please meet Front of House in the foyer on the ground floor of the Dodds Street Performing Arts Building, Studio 4 is then accessible via the stairs or lift.

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Banner: Image by Zayn Ulfan, 2024.