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'Grumpy 7 year-old Zachary, is fed up with feeling average and journeys into a surreal and entrancing world to discover what makes him special. A host of hilarious characters combine with international award winning writer Finegan Kruckemeyers trademark sharp dialogue in this unique twist on an adventure tale. Alternately hilarious and deeply moving, audiences both young and old will love joining the furious Zachary in his desperate quest to discover difference.'
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Finegan Kruckemeyer on doollee.com (http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kruckemeyer-finegan.html). (Sighted: 8/9/2014)
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With music by Darren Clark.
Production Details
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Developed in 2012 in the US as part of New York University (NYU) Plays for Young Audiences series.
First produced by Paper Balloon Theatre Company, Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, on 27 September 2013.
Included by Victorian Opera in their 2015 (2-4 October 2015), performed by 'aspiring young singers aged 13-25 from around Victoria', and supported by The Robert Salzer Foundation and Victorian Opera New Work Syndicate. (Source: Victorian Opera 2015 season listing.)
Presented by Victorian Opera at Arts Centre Melbourne (Playhouse), 23-24 June 2023.
Director: Elizabeth Hill-Cooper.
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Awards
- 2014 winner AWGIE Awards — Children's Award — Children's Theatre