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SPROUT
Sprout is a play set in an Australia of the future, where everything has dried up, run out, or fled. In this world, human beings live in skeleton cities, or out in the wild, with only the barest of necessities for survival. One thing unites these fragmented souls: a self-appointed prophet on the radio, the Weatherman, who shares classic poetry with his listeners – his way of making their fear and desolation more bearable, through the beauty of language.
And in this world full of endings, four people start new beginnings. Curiosity, romance and new life continue to sprout.
Sprout suggests the inevitability of love and growth in environments that seem completely inhospitable; that no matter how hopeless things might seem, there is always growth and renewal within the cycles of the earth and our own bodies.
Sprout is the debut play from Jessica Bellamy, and was winner of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award 2011, as well as finalist in the World Wildlife Fund Creative Arts Awards 2012.
- drama, fantasy
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- 5 total
- 2 female identifying, 3 male identifying
- 16 to 18, 18+
- adult, young adult
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Female | 20s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 11
EXTRACT: But you push past his glint in your head. Leave that green light, and come back to me. Your hand against your leg. Your hand against my face. Wet grass, warm sand, hands on my skin, hands in my hand. (JOHN enters)/ And your hand opens the door.
ARTICLE: BELLAMY BEATS THEM ALL
ERIN JAMES, AUSSIETHEATRE, 6 DECEMBER 2011
"Last night, 25 year old Jessica Bellamy’s new play Sprout was awarded 2011 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award."
ARTICLE: INTERVIEW WITH JESSICA BELLAMY
FRESH INK, MARCH 2013
Fresh Ink interviews Jessica Bellamy about her plays 'Little Love', 'Bat Eyes', and 'Sprout'.
REVIEW: SPROUT
KEVIN JACKSON'S THEATRE DIARY, 8 NOVEMBER 2011
"SPROUT by Jessica Bellamy is a short play of speculative fiction, occupied with a future world that has been destroyed, drought plaqued, wind blown and is clinging to the careful nurturing of seeds into 'sprouts'. Sprouts that become plants, a frog and a human. A bleak dystopian world of grim survival."
REVIEW: SPROUT
PIP SMITH, TIMEOUT SYDNEY, 31 OCTOBER 2011
"The world of Sprout is a thirsty place. If you can imagine Mad Max with the V8s and testosterone removed, and then re-written in consultation with Bob Brown, you might be half way to sniffing out the vibe of the thing."
REVIEW: SPROUT | PEDRO COLLECTIVE & TAMARAMA ROCK SURFERS
AUGUSTA SUPPLE, 20 NOVEMBER 2011
"There’s a rustic feel to the world of Bellamy’s play – wooden beams in state of being built – or perhaps in a state of collapse hard to tell – but there is one thing for certain – this is a world which is dry and desperate."
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