In 1991 Robin Klein was awarded the Dromkeen Medal for her significant contribution to the appreciation and development of children's literature in Australia. Her novel for older readers, The Listmaker, won the 1990 South Australian Festival Award for Literature. This outstanding novel was named a White Raven book at the 1990 Bologna Children's Book Fair. It also won the 1990 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, Older Readers, and was shortlisted for the 1990 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the 1990 NSW Premier's Literary Award. Came Back to Show You I Could Fly won a Human Rights Award for Literature in 1989. Many have been shortlisted for the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, including People Might Hear You (1984), Seeing Things (1984), Hating Alison Ashley (1985), Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (1986). Loved the play within the play in particular.Born in Kempsey, New South Wales, Robin Klein has now had more than forty books published. We will see many of these performers in the years to come. Mousetrap Theatre is to be congratulated for exposing the young actors and theatre crew to this successful practical experience.
Others will undoubtedly improve during the run and with this experience.
Also worthy of mention were Jamie-Lee Bone as school teacher Miss Belmont and Ethan Beer as Barry Hollis, the pain in the neck student. When Tyallah Bullock, who was an equally impressive Alison Ashley was on stage with her, the two young actors interacted really well. Emma Hutt as Erica Yurkin was good in one of the central roles. The standards of the performances varied a good deal with some very impressive. The over the top camp play was hilarious and had the audience laughing loudly. The set was minimal but allowed the action to move along smoothly. The fact that half of the characters were year eight students helped but the whole show flowed quite well. Tanja Stanley’s directional skills were further extended with this production as it was done completely by their Youth Theatre group, under the guidance of senior mentors. The school’s one week camp brings everything to a head when they stage the camp play.
Alison Ashley arrives as a complete contrast to the others – she is beautiful, rich, clever and well behaved. The dominant person is Erica Yurken, who believes she is destined for a glittering stage career. Work and good behaviour are foreign to them. If you think you know what school students are really like, you should see these grade eights at the notorious Barrington East School. Mousetrap Theatre, Redcliffe, Queensland.
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