The Peach Season by Debra Oswald

The Peach Season by Debora Oswald, creator of the hit TV show Offspring, is a powerful, salutary tale showing what it’s like to be a young person desperate for independence, but also, crucially, what it’s like to be a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest.

After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two young people to help during picking season heralds the beginning of the end for Celia’s safe existence.

Her daughter falls in love with enigmatic, erratic Kieran, but when the relationship is threatened, they run away together. The safe, perhaps smothering, world that Celia has created unravels; her paranoia and insecurities amplified to full volume. Playing out alongside her fear, we see the increasingly degrading and dangerous lifestyle that the two elopers have fallen into.

  • Director & Designer || Joshua Maxwell
  • Producer || Kelly Maxwell
  • The Launch Pad || November 2019

Meet the Cast

Danielle Brame Whiting as Celia || Tayla Glason as Zoe || Anna Carter as Dorothy || Gabrielle Brooks as Sheena || Calem Madden as Kieran || Ethan Dale as Joe

Credits

Kelly Maxwell – Box Office Manager || SixT5 Productions – Lighting Supply || Lakes Printers – Printing || Watermelon Jam – Promotion Design || Kelly Maxwell – Program Photos || Castlehill Players – Peach Supply

Show Photos & Reviews

“And let me tell you in earnest, when these actors run with the ball – they run far and don’t look back. It is extraordinary to see Oswald delivered by an independent youth company like JOPUKA, with such unbridled dedication and commitment to personal development as actors that you want to cheer them on from your seat as they discover themselves in the material they are performing.” review by The Independent Arts Journal

Show Photos

Thank you's

Castlehill Players, Central Coast Council, NAISDA Dance College, Xtract Drama Academy, Central Coast Music Factory, Lakes Printers, sixT5 Productions, Emma McBride MP, David Harris MP, Brilliant Logic and Jamie Hornsby, Tumb Fruit for All