This April, Griffin Theatre Company will stage the premiere of BLUEBERRY PLAY  by new Australian playwright Ang Collins as part of its inaugural Batch Festival.           

Blueberry Play featured in ATYP’s Intersection [SAG Review] in February 2017 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Award.

 This exciting new play explores the high highs and the low lows of being a teenage girl in a small town.

It’s Jono’s 18th tonight and you’re going as a blueberry because the theme is ‘childhood memories’ and you want to look like Violet Beauregard from Willy Wonka…but sluttier.

Being 17 is awkward. Having to take care of your sick dad when you’re 17 is another story. Especially when he keeps trying to shave his eyebrows off. Shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Award, Blueberry Play explores the high highs and the low lows of being a teenage girl in a small town. Playwright-to-watch Ang Collins has crafted a beautifully intimate story about family life, adolescence, and mental and physical illness.

BLUEBERRY PLAY is featuring in Griffin’s new Batch Festival—a three-week fiesta of the freshest, edgiest and most inventive new shows in Sydney. An exciting crop of storytellers, poets, comedy artists and non-traditional performance makers from across the country will take over the iconic Stables stage from 11-28 April. 

Directed by Sheridan Harbridge (Nosferatutu, or Bleeding at the Ballet – Griffin Theatre Company), BLUEBERRY PLAY stars  Contessa Treffone (Top Girls – Sydney Theatre Company) and will play only a short season.

BLUEBERRY PLAY as part of Griffin Theatre’s  BATCH FESTIVAL plays 18-21st April at SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod Street, Kings Cross.