Now Brisbane gets to see what all the fuss is about.Ĭast includes Ian Bliss, Shaka Cook, Nicholas Denton, Rachel Gordon, Hayden Spencer, Hoa Xuande and Melanie Zanetti. Jasper Jones has won and been shortlisted for several major awards, and in 2012 was selected by the University of Canberra as its inaugural UC Book of the. Sam Strong’s production of Jasper Jones sold out its Melbourne Theatre Company season and was nominated for four Helpmann awards including Best Play.
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Somewhere between Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and classic movie Stand by Me, Kate Mulvany’s adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novel is a bittersweet, joyous coming-of-age yarn set in a community where every weatherboard house hides a dark secret. Who else would he call on for help but the sharpest kid around? A midnight tap at Charlie’s window sparks a race to solve a murder and clear Jasper’s name. Nothing, that is, until Jasper Jones stumbles upon a gruesome crime out by the dam.
Look closely and you can see the scraps of newspaper he painted over with a mixture of hot wax and color, a technique called encaustic.
He never thought he’d find himself living one.Ĭharlie Bucktin lives in a tiny, insignificant bush town where nothing happens. Jasper Johns Flag 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954) One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it, Johns once said. In the sizzling summer of 1965, a bookish 14 year-old boy flees from the boredom and bullying of small-town life by burying himself in stories of epic adventure. Craig Silveys critically acclaimed novel Jasper Jones could have been another clich story about the budding relationship between Charlie and Eliza.
The smash-hit stage adaptation of the classic Australian coming-of-age mystery
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