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Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship)

Price range: $5.40 through $15.00

Holly and Sam are the best of the best. Or they want to be. They share a dream – to join the most elite squad in competitive summer sport: ballkids at the Australian Open. It’s their first day of training and they don’t know yet that they’re not going to make the cut or that they’re going to meet their best friend for the first time ever.

'Ballkids' takes this chance encounter and chucks it in a blender, jump-cutting through the next two decades of Holly and Sam’s shared life to map the starburst force of platonic romance.

Funny and moving, excruciatingly human, 'Ballkids (or, scenes from a friendship)' is an ode to lonely kids and what happens when they find each other.

  • comedy, contemporary, drama, duologue, episodic, monologue and/or audition pieces, naturalism/realism
  • 55
  • 2 total
  • 1 female identifying, 1 non-binary / gender fluid
  • adolescence, belonging, change, coming of age, death, family, friendship, grief, growing up, identity, lgbtqia+, love, loss, loyalty, mental health, resilience, rites of passage/transition, sexuality, survival, queer, young people
  • 18+
  • adult language
  • teen, young adult, adult
  • Australian Plays Transform


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$15.00
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