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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 "I'll Really Miss My Lizards" : Off to Borading School : Dreams, Homesickness and Fears
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'Ithaca Road aims to provoke audiences to think about and discuss the issues related to young people leaving their rural homes to go to boarding school.' Howard Cassidy.

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    y separately published work icon Ithaca Road Robert Kronk , Brisbane : Playlab , 2011 Z1820296 2011 single work drama children's 'Tilly and Ben are twins about to leave their remote property to go to boarding school in town. Tilly is eagerly anticipating a new life with new friends and possibilities, while Ben isn't so sure ... Together, they create an extraordinary imaginative world, where worst nightmares and greatest dreams are vividly enacted, and the ghosts of the past return to help shed light on the future. A play about young people in transition - from primary to high school, from small community to big town, from home to boarding school - Ithaca Road unpacks fears of change and speaks to strategies for resilience.' (Publisher's website) Brisbane : Playlab , 2011 pg. 9-12
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