Getting Through/Over and Out

Production: Getting Through
Company Name: Theatre Centre
Written and directed by Nona Shepphard
Music: Helen Glavin
Year: 1985

Production: Over and Out
Company Name: Theatre Centre
Writers: Bryony Lavery and Nona Shepphard
Director: Nona Shepphard
Music: Helen Glavin
Year: 1985

These are parallel plays with the same characters. In Getting Through the central character is very boyish and different – there are three other girls who are very conformist. She befriends a cleaner at school and contacts people in a parallel world who understand her problems. Over and Out is the same story but a fantasy set in a space-age universe (Bill Mitchell designed a huge tent for this production). The plays were performed – one by the Women’s company, one by the Mixed company – usually in tandem, and a workshop company would work with schools and teachers and look at gender relationships.

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