PEARL VERSES THE WORLD, Book Cover by Heather Potter ©Walker Books
PEARL VERSES THE WORLD, Jigsaw Theatre Company ©Tobhiyah Feller
PEARL VERSES THE WORLD, Jigsaw Theatre Company ©Tobhiyah Feller
Pearl Verses the World
Creative Development, Jigsaw Theatre Company. Book by Sally Murphy
JIGSAW THEATRE COMPANY CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT, Canberra, Australia, June-July 2011
DIRECTOR / CREATOR: SALLY BLACKWOOD
DRAMATURGE: NAOMI EDWARDS
COMPOSER / CELLIST: DAVID PEREIRA
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: TOBHIYAH FELLER
Creative Development Participants: Lola MacGillivray & Tilda Barrie (Canberra Youth Theatre) & Leah Baulch.
Pearl is eight years old and lives with Mum and Gran. It takes three to make Pearl’s warm safe family. Pearl finds school a lonely frustrating place where, in her group of one, she rebels against her teacher’s insistence that all poetry must rhyme. Pearl’s world doesn’t rhyme, and as Mum looks after Gran, Pearl struggles to convince her world that poetry, like people, comes in all shapes and sizes.
Pearl Verses the World is a rhyme riddled musical journey about finding your place in the world.