Grounded is a coming-of-age tale centered around Farrah, a young girl from Newcastle with a fascination for the town’s industrial port.

Exploring universal themes of isolation, belonging, and identity and that time in your life when the obsessions of childhood get grounded in reality. Set against the June 2007 storms that smashed the east coast and grounded The Pasha Bulker.

This is Jopuka’s second time producing this amazing work by one of Australia’s most acclaimed playwrights, Alana Valentine, which was co-commissioned by Australian Theatre for Young People and Tantrum Youth Arts (Then Tantrum Theatre). Capturing the contrasts of an industrial city re-inventing itself in a new century, Grounded looks at the way life can take us to places we don’t expect.