Babyteeth / Rita Kalnejais.
Series: Currency playsPublisher: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W. : Currency Press, © 2012Description: 77 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780868199269 (pbk.) :
- Baby teeth
- 822.4 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 822.4 KAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90320 |
"First produced by Belvoir at Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, on 15 February 2012."
A group of more or less ordinary Sydneysiders go about their lives: Anna makes toast, Henry dresses for work, Milla catches the train to school, Moses deals drugs - that kind of thing. But hovering above this unholy parade of life is the sobering fact that Milla will be dead before her 15th birthday. But wait...this is a comedy. Rita Kalnejais has corralled an unlikely collective of characters - a grieving mum, a junkie, a girl dying of cancer, an eight-year-old Vietnamese violin prodigy, and a Latvian immigrant among them - to realise an extraordinary play about life, death, grace and gratitude. Babyteeth lays down the landscape of mundanity, and lets us see within it the violent sweetness of life.
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