"The Blue Room Theatre is a nurturing environment for established and emerging artists and is instrumental in its role in providing professional development opportunites."
Lord Mayor, the Right Honourable Lisa Scaffidi

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Dawn Pascoe, She Dances In The Dark.

Scarecrow

Side Pony Productions (Blue Room WA First)

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Dates:
(Preview Wed 23 Aug),
Thu 24 – Sat 26 Aug,
Tue 29 Aug – Sat 2 Sep,
Tue 5 - Sat 9 Sep

Time:
Tue - Thu shows 7:00pm,
Fri & Sat shows 9:00pm


About the Venue

The Blue Room Studio
23 August to 9 September 2006

 Photo: Zoe Pepper

Written by Don Nigro
By special arrangement with Dominie Pty Ltd

Directed by Zoe Pepper
Music Composed by Tara Webb
Lighting Design by Lucy Birkinshaw
Set Design by John Pepper
Stage Managed by Chris Isaacs

Featuring Adriane Daff, Talei Howell-Price and Scott Jackson

"In the cornfield next to our house there's a scarecrow, it's been there as long as I can remember and it's always frighted me."

Cally lives with her mother, Rose, whose eccentricities have slowly become suffocating. She escapes her mother across the cornfield, where she meets Nick, who teases her with dreams of the world beyond their house.

Rose hasn't been outside since Wednesday last week, she finds it difficult to breathe amongst the corn. Inside, she pores over her collection of National Geographics and prepares herself for the inevitable. She raised Cally to be strong and cruel but Cally is growing to realize that her mother has locked herself in her own world. The isolation of the two women has worn their relationship thin as they bicker and manipulate each other's fears.

Scarecrow is a tale of mythic proportions, with a surreal script that evokes the timelessness of an eerie fable.

"You ran through the corn like the devil was after you."

Tickets:

Full $15 / Conc. $12
Blue Room Members: Full $12 / Conc. $10